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CHAPTER XVII. 



NEW GRAPE REGIONS. 



In most regions where the grape has been found suc- 

 cessful, land is held at so high a figure as to preclude its 

 purchase by men of limited means. But there are doubt- 

 less hundreds of other localities where the grape has not 

 been introduced, which will ultimately become as success- 

 ful as any now known. On many of the steep and rocky 

 hillsides of the New England States, where the wild vine 

 now clambers in rich luxuriance, bearing its heavy burthen 

 of fruit, there are doubtless many places where the culti- 

 vated vine might be grown with very satisfactory success. 

 The same may be said of the shores of hundreds of small 

 lakes scattered throughout the country, where the volume 

 of water is sufficient to exert an ameliorating influence 

 upon the climate. I have in mind a small lake, only a 

 mile in length, and of still less breadth, which so retards 



