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the use of wine is prohibited. Rivinus observes, that, in 

 the city of Batavia, where the pursuit of commerce brings 

 together a vast assemblage of the neighbouring Asiatic 

 nations, Avhenever the disease occurs, it is almost always 

 in the instance of some Hollander, who, in his passage to 

 India, drank freely of bottled beer, and used sour crout. In 

 Persia, the same author, in his excellent treatise, De Mor- 

 bis Endemicis, observes, that whenever calculus affection 

 occurs, either in Ispahan, or the provinces, it is, assuredly, 

 in the instance of some Armenian, (fellows, to use his 

 words,) who, in every latitude, drink more wine than water. 

 Again, in Grand Cairo, Avhere the proximity of the Gre- 

 cian islands, and ready conveyance by the Nile, render 

 wine of easy acquisition, and drunkenness and public- 

 houses as common, as in any city of Germany ; we learn, 

 from Prosper Alpinus, that the disease is of very frequent 

 bccun-ence; for, besides a mixed population of Franks, 

 Armenians, Arabs, &c. the Mamelukes, as well is many 

 other Turks df the higher ranks, do not, in deference to 

 the Mahometan law, refrain from Avine. The Cyprian and 

 Grecian wines, if not adulterated, or become acescent by 

 dilution, and the Avarm temperature of that city, are, in 

 themselves, among the least objectionable. But, Avhen we 

 consider, that Paris is chiefly supplied AVith Burgundy, 

 ahd that, yet, in no part of the world does there occur 

 more mischief, from the attempts to keep down and cor- 

 rect its acescency, we will easily form an opinion of the 

 quality of the wine retailed in Cairo. 



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