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quantities, are made up in quality, if we may 

 judge by the price of tokay. At the sale of 

 the Duke of Queensberry's wine, in 18 , 

 the tokay sold for one hundred and fifty 

 pounds per dozen, which is about a guinea 

 a glass. The tokay made at Johanneski, in 

 Poland, of the vintage of 1811, was sold on 

 the spot for 4,000 florins the cask of 8 ohms, 

 which is equal to twenty-seven shillings per 

 gallon. 



Spain furnishes us with sherry, paxeretta, 

 mountain, tent, &c. Mr. Swinburn men- 

 tions, in his account of -Spain, that in plen- 

 tiful seasons the vineyards are so productive, 

 casks cannot be found to contain the wine ; 

 and that many vineyards remain ungathered, 

 notwithstanding public notice being stuck at 

 the church doors, that all who choose may 

 gather, by paying a small acknowledgment. 

 Those who are afflicted with bilious com- 

 plaints should drink good sherry, in prefer- 

 ence to all other wines, it being less likely to 

 turn acid on the stomach. 



The island of Madeira was planted with 

 the vine from cuttings brought from Cyprus, 

 by Prince Henry, son to John the Eirst of 

 Portugal, in the year 1420, when the island 

 was first discovered; and it now affords about 

 30,000 pipes of wine annually. The Hhenish 



