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through which we pass our wines, that they 

 may be refined and drawn the sooner. This 

 information may be serviceable to nautical 

 men, and to those who travel in tropical 

 climes. 



In the retreat of the ten thousand, Xeno- 

 phon thus describes the beer which he found 

 in some Armenian villages : " Beer (literally 

 barley-wine) in jars, in which the malt or bar- 

 ley itself was in them up to the brim, and with 

 it reeds, some large and others small, without 

 joints. These, when any one w r as dry, he 

 was to take into his mouth and suck. The 

 liquor was very strong, when unmixed with 

 water, and exceeding pleasant to those who 

 were accustomed to it." 



Diodorus Siculus tells us, that Osiris, that 

 is, the Egyptian Bacchus, was the inventor of 

 malt-liquor, as a relief to those countries 

 where vines did not succeed, which is the 

 reason assigned by Herodotus for the Egyp- 

 tians using it. This was also the liquor 

 used in France, till the time of the Emperor 

 Probus, when vines were first planted there. 

 Pliny says, they called it Cervisia, a word 

 probably derived from Cervoise, which among 

 the ancient Gauls signified beer *. 



# Spelman. 



