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previous to IS46, at Washington market, grown in a vineyard, and 

 cultivated in Westchester county, in this state. 



The grapes from Guilford, though uncultivated and grown on the 

 native vines, were abundant with pulp and juice. Their flavor when 

 preserved was the same as those cultivated, and no one not acquaint- 

 ed with the circumstances of the growth of each kind, would have 

 suspected a difference. We remember that many years since, while 

 pursuing academical studies at Amherst, Massachusetts, in company 

 with some fellow students late in September, by the side of a stream, 

 we came across a native grape vine in our rambles through the 

 fields in the eastern part of Amherst, near the town of Pelham. 



This vine grew from the stump of a decayed sugar maple tree, and 

 run up over a large bush of basswood. The vine was literally mat- 

 ted with clusters of ripe fruit. We regaled ourselves upon it to our 

 content, deeming wild grapes to be the property of the first finders! 

 but we left a goodly quantity on the vine for the next comers. 

 The grapes were of a delicious flavor, full of saccharine 

 juice, and some of the berries appeared to be as large as 

 the black Hamburgh grape. I am persuaded that the fruit of this 

 vine had it beencultivated, would have equalled any that is found in 

 the best vineyards of the present day. I will call this variety of 

 grape the Hockanum grape. 



The massacre of Capt. Lathrop and seventy-six of his men at a 

 place called Bloody Brook, in South Deerfield, Massachusetts, Sept. 

 18th, 1675 old style, was occasioned by the soldiers being attacked 

 by the Indians, 700 in number, while the captain and most of his 

 company were aloft in a forest picking grapes from the native vines 

 which abound at that locality. The men, most of them, had climb- 

 ed on to the vines, leaving their arms on the ground. The Indians 

 lay in ambuscade not far distant; seeing the helpless condition of 

 the company for a fight, rushed upon the white people, seized their 

 arms, and 76 out of 87 men, which was the number of Capt. La- 

 throp's company, were killed and scalped by the Indians. 



In the eastern part of the state of North Carolina, at the mouth of 

 the Albemarle sound is found the Scuppernong grape. It is a native 

 or indigenous fruit, and is and was found giowing in the forest on 

 Roanoke Island and its vicinity, when the English first visited the 

 country under Sir Walter Raleigh. 



