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Lutz, Viticulture and Brewing. 



other respects, abounds with wine, of which the greater part 

 is exported to Alexandria. The whole mountain overhanging 

 the city is planted almost toits summit with vines". The country of 



Alashiya, ( QA [pp | 1 , situated near Qadesh, according to 



Pap. Anast. IV, pi. 15, line 2, furnished a liquor which was 

 called fity, "^ l Q m ' ^""^ tynbw, ( ( J ^ ^ ;^, a spe- 



cial kind of grape-wine (see E. de Rouge, Memoire sur la 

 propagation, p. 97 '-^^). In Nasir-i-Khusran's Diar}' of a Jour- 

 ney through Syria and Palestine ^ mention is made of the 

 grapes of Ma'arrah an Nu'man, southwest of Qinnasrin: 

 "There are here also fig-trees and olives, and pistachios and 

 almonds and grapes in plent}'". The culture of vine at 

 Ma'arra an Nu'man is also mentioned by Idrisi. In Pap. Anast., 

 IV, 15, 3 the name of a certain beverage is given, which came 



from the country of Amurru, [ ^^ .^\^ 1 . It is called /^<?;y', 



or also kenny. It is, however, likely that this name does not 

 refer to a certain brand of grape-wine, but that it is a special 

 fruit-juice, or a must"-^. 'Amr, Mu'allaqat 7 mentions the wines 

 of Baalbek and Qasirin. Idrisi refers to the fact that the vine- 

 yards of Baalbec produce more grapes than the people need 

 for home-consumption. Strabo ^ mentions the wine of Seleucia. 

 Good wine was grown in the S}Tian Androna, which exported 

 it to Arabia . Hassan ibnThabit'' mentions the wine of Bait 

 Ras. The wine of al-Khuss in the neighborhood* of Qadesia 

 Is mentioned in Imruulqais XVII, 8: "merchants, who go up 

 from al-Khuss with wine, until they discharge it at Yusur''. 

 In the Hauran ,the wines of Sarkhad and Bosra enjoyed 



renown ^ 



i) See Palestine Pilgrims' Text Society, Vol. IV, p. 3. Nasir-i-Khusran 

 wrote in 1047 A. D. 



2) Aeg. Z.. 1877, 32. 3) Strabo, VII, 5, 8. 



4) Amr Mu allaqat i. "Now then, awake, and bring our morning draught 

 from thy goblet, and do not keep the wines of Anderein". 



51 Ibn Hishani, ed. Wiistenfeld, 829, v. 4, Vaqiit knows of two localities 

 of that name, one at the Jordan, llie other near Aleppo. Both possessed 

 vineyards. 



6) Hamasa, 646; Kitab al-'agani XI, 87, 7 and VAqut III, 380. 



