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tween 21° and 22° cent. (69°.8 and 71°.6 Fah.) the maximum of 
temperature that the vine can bear when productive, and to justify 
this assertion, it states, that at Cairo, where the mean temperature 
is 71°.6 Fah., the vine is not cultivated on the great scale, and that 
there are there only detached vine plants. This is the fact in regard 
to the past, but then the cause is quite of another description. Con- 
siderable plantations of vines have lately been made, which promise 
to afford excellent returns ; but a decisive fact is that there have al- 
ways been and still are, vines in Fayoum, which is one of the hot- 
test provinces in’Egypt, owing to the hills of sand which surround 
it on al] sides. ‘These vines are situated at the villages of Fidemia, 
Adjamira, and Tumban; they are cultivated by the Cophts, and 
yield agreeable wines. That which I have drunk presents a phe- 
nomenon which is rare in such aclimate; it does not affect the 
head, and is drinkable after the second year. Pocoke, who traveled 
in 1737, speaks of the cultivation of the vine by the Cophts in Fay- 
oum, and what is still more important, there is in the higher parts 
of Upper Egypt, at Esné, twelve leagues to the south of ‘Thebes, 
a vineyard which has an extent of several feddams. Its original 
object was to yield grapes for eating, but Jussuff Kiacheff, formerly 
soldier in the army sent to Egypt, and who was taken prisoner by 
the Mamelukes at the period of the evacuation, and remained in the 
east, informed me that he farmed the vineyard ; that he made ex- 
cellent wine of the produce, and obtained a quantity equal to that 
afforded by the vineyards of Europe. We may then conclude from 
these facts, that if in Egypt, till within a few years, the vine has not 
been cultivated on a great scale, it is because the inhabitants do not 
drink wine, and that we are not to draw the inference, that there is 
a maximum of temperature above which the vine does not yield the 
means of making wine.” —Edin. New Philo. Jour. April, 1836. 
8. The Mathematical Miscellany, conducted by C. Gru, Pro- 
fessor of Mathematics in the Institute at Flushing, Long Island, New 
York.—We notice with great pleasure, the receipt of the first num- 
ber of this unassuming periodical, and we cordially recommend it to 
our young friends, as one of the best means of drawing out the 
mathematical talent of the country. Works of this kind have always 
been beneficial in their influences ; and when conducted with a prop- 
er spirit, and good judgment, have been quite efficient in fostering 
emulation, and in promoting the circulation of science. The very 
