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actually drank, during both winter and summer, from 

 their fraudulent mixture with the foreign. To eco- 

 nomists, moreover, their immensely superior cheap- 

 ness is no light consideration, and a more important 

 one still subsists, in that insurance from the risk of 

 poison, which families may establish by making their 

 own wines. To conclude this uninviting and too pro- 

 bably tedious branch of the subject, the remedy, 

 granting it at all susceptible of remedy, must proceed 

 from the knowledge and exertions of persons of pro- 

 perty, and of that influence which they ought to pos- 

 sess with the dealers in wine. An experienced and 

 correct judge of wine will immediately, or in a short 

 time during its use, detect any improper admixture, 

 and on suspicion a sample of the wine ought to be 

 instantly submitted to analysis by a regular chemist. 

 I am too well aware, from my former experience on 

 other and equally interesting subjects, of the hope- 

 lessness of giving general counsel, but there must 

 exist an intelligent and right-minded minority, how- 

 ever small, and to them I address myself, and there 

 rests my confidence. As to the great majority, I 

 humbly salute them with the well-worn but ever- 

 lasting quotation, si populus vult decipi, decipiatur y 

 which being Englished literally is, If the people will 

 be deceived, deceived let them be. 



To detect Adulteration. From HusenbetKs Guide to 

 the Wine Cellar. 



" CHAMPAGNE wine, if pure from any mixture not 

 belonging to it, forms a star in the centre of the effer- 

 vescing froth, when poured into a glass standing on 

 the table. Poor and hungry wine, introduced as 



