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The Cape of Good Hope has been planted 

 with vines from the Rhine, Persia, and other 

 countries ; and they have so increased, that 

 there is scarcely a cottage without a vine- 

 yard in all the colony. It is from the 

 Cape that we obtain those rich wines called 

 Constantia, both red and white, which are 

 made on one farm only, and the quantity 

 does not exceed sixty pipes of red and 100 

 of the white per annum. We also receive 

 from thence large quantities of the wine 

 called Cape, which will be good when the 

 growers know their interest better, and attend 

 more to the quality and less to the quantity. 

 There is another objection to this wine, 

 which must be remedied before Cape can 

 be agreeable, viz. that the vines, instead 

 of being staked, as in other wine coun- 

 tries, are suffered to trail on the ground: 

 it is natural, therefore, to conclude that those 

 berries next the earth will rot, and a few un- 

 sound grapes will give an unpleasant flavour 

 to"a large quantity of wine. 



The moderate use of wine has never been 

 condemned by physicians ; and in so moist 

 and changeable a climate as England, a more 

 plentiful draught may be allowed than in 

 warmer countries. 



Sentius, when he was praetor of Rome, said 



