THE VINEYARDS OF THE WORLD. 7 



other representations of Vineyards and full 

 details of the art of wine-making belong to 

 the Fourth, Seventeenth, and Eighteenth 

 Dynasties. Quite recently, the laws of 

 Khammurabi, King of Babylon about B.C. 

 2250, have been discovered and decyphered 

 and have aroused a great deal of interest. 

 This Sovereign appears to have been the 

 great legislator of his dynasty ; his laws 

 contain the most precise regulations con- 

 cerning the sale of wine, and show us the 

 poor retailer of wine to have been harassed 

 by a very severe legislation even in those 

 times. Fines were not in vogue then, but 

 the loss of a limb or of life was the penalty 

 incurred by the seller of wine giving bad 

 quality or short measure or allowing 

 riotous conduct on the premises. 



In China, viticulture flourished from 

 2000 B.C. until the fourteenth century of 

 our era, whilst in Europe and in Africa 



