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be distinguished from Madeira, but after four years of age it be- 

 comes so sweet and mellow, that it resembles the wine of Malaga 

 in Spain. This, like all ihe other Canary islands, abounds with 

 Ochilla weed. 



On the east side of the island of Palma good wines are produced, 

 which have a different taste and flavour from those of Teneriffe : 

 the dry wine is small bodied, and of a yellow colour. The malve- 

 sia, or sack, is not so luscious or so strong as that of Teneriffe ; but 

 on its being about three years old, it obtains the rich flavour of a 

 ripe pine-apple. These wines, however, are very difficult to pre- 

 serve, especially when exported to cold climates, where they fre- 

 quently turn sour. 



The manner of making wine at Madeira is extremely simple. 

 The grapes are put into a square wooden vessel, the dimen- 

 sions of which are proportioned* to the size of the vineyard to 

 which it belongs. The servants then, having taken off their stock- 

 ings and jackets, get into it, and witli their feet, hands, and elbows, 

 press out as much of the juice as they can. The stalks are after- 

 terward collected, and being tied together with a rope, are put under 

 a square piece of wood, which is pressed down upon them by a 

 lever, with a stone tied to the end of it. The inhabitants have 

 made so little improvement in knowledge or art, that they have not, 

 till within the last twenty-five years (from 1787), brought all the 

 fruit of a vineyard to be of one sort, by engrafting their vines. It 

 is observable of the Madeira wines, that they are greatly improved 

 by the heat of the sun ; and a pipe of wine which has been carried 

 across the line, when brought to Europe, acquires a considerable 

 value. In the whole island they annually make about twenty-eight 

 thousand pipes, eight thousand of which are drank there, and the 

 rest exported, the greatest part being sent to the West Indies, espe- 

 cially to Barbadoes. 



Chios, or Scio, another celebrated vine.country, called by the 

 Turks Sacki Saduci, is one of the most beautiful and pleasant islands 

 in the Archipelago. It is situated near the coast of Natolia, to 

 the north-west of Samos, and to the south of Mytelene, and ex- 

 tends from 38 8' to 38 37' north latitude. It is thirty-miles in 

 length, and fifteen in breadth. 



u The island of Chios, now Scio," says Dr. Chandler, who tra- 

 velled into Asia Minor, at the expense of the Society of Dilettanti, 



