8 THE VINEYARDS OF THE WORLD. 



the Phoenicians seem to have taught the 

 art of wine-making in the Peloponese, the 

 Latium, Gaul and the Iberic Peninsula, as 

 well as all along the Mediterranean coast 

 of Africa where they had Colonies. 



The earliest records of ancient Greek 

 and Latin history show that the cultiva- 

 tion of Vineyards and the science of wine- 

 making are coeval with the dawn of 

 civilisation in Greece, the Balkans, Italy, 

 France, Spain, Portugal, Germany, and 

 Britain. Modern discoveries of the lake- 

 dwellings of the Bronze Age, at Castione, 

 near Parma, at Bex, at Wangen and at 

 Varese, prove the vine to have been indi- 

 genous to Europe and that at the remotest 

 date of Western History of which we thus 

 possess documentary evidence, men grew 

 corn and vines. Professor Heer, in his 

 Die Pflanzen der Pfahlbauten, even asserts 

 that he has been able to distinguish in some 



