114 CULTIVATION, &C. 



tions for ameliorating the condition of man, will 

 be extended to the cultivation of the vine. 



To the system that shall banish intemperance 

 from our land, will be justly due a conspicuous 

 rank among the improvements of the age. It is 

 from this cultivation that we can confidently 

 hope such a blessing, a blessing which shall in- 

 fuse throughout the land a life giving energy, 

 and imbue with the happiest influence the moral 

 atmosphere that surrounds us, an influence (to 

 borrow the language of a distinguished historian) 

 " more salutary than that which the vestals of 

 Numa derived from the sacred fount of Egeria, 

 when they drew from it the mystic waters, with 

 which they sprinkled their sanctuary.' 7 



