42 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF THE ORIGIN OF THE 



were pending, two specimens of wine were brought 

 to them, one a year old, the other of the then present 

 vintage, made by one Maurice Pound, of Eed Lion 

 Hundred, in the County of New Castle, out of grapes 

 gathered from vines which he himself had planted. 29 

 By a certificate which he produced, it appeared that 

 in the course of four or five years, he had cleared 

 twelve acres of land, and planted therein 18000 vines, 

 that upwards of 8000 of them were then growing, 

 and about 2050 in a flourishing state. In the year 

 1767, about 2| years from his first planting the slips, 

 he pressed out about 150 gallons of wine, and in the 

 then present year expected to make a larger quantity. 

 The Society awarded him a premium of ten pounds, 

 which was immediately paid to him by their Treas- 

 urer. 



We must now return to the unfortunate dissentions 

 between the two Societies, and hasten to their happy 

 termination. 



I have shown the exasperation of the American 

 Society in the month of February, when they refused 

 the offer of the Philosophical Society to admit them 

 as individuals into their body, and ordered an his- 

 torical narrative of their differences to be written, 

 yet for more than six months they postponed from 

 time [to time], the consideration of the new Eules 

 which a Committee had been ordered to prepare, it 



23 It does not appear that they were foreign plants, which a Del- 

 aware farmer could hardly have imported at that time. 



