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mentation continues, and is eventually absorbed by the wine in a 

 condensed state; when the cork is withdrawn it escapes from the 

 bottle with a report. The manufacturer, by judicious management, 

 can make dry, sweet and brisk wine from the same juice. Bouquet 

 of wines is the aromatic odour which is perceived when fine wines are 

 exposed to the air after being bottled. 



The aroma is a principle derived from the fruit. America will yet 

 become the vineyard of the world. We have every species of cli- 

 mate, and soils capable of producing grapes equal to any grown. 

 Our whole country is overrun with vines which appear to be indi- 

 genous, and some of them yield berries of immense size, and every 

 shade of color. In Louisiana, Ohio, and Florida, much fine wine is 

 made from native grapes. Then we have the Scuppernong, Catawba 

 and Isabella, from all of which, most delicious wine has been ex- 

 pressed. 



In South America, vineyards are very numerous, and in the vici- 

 nity of Buenos Ayres, exceedingly productive, and produce red, dry, 

 white, brisk and sweet wine. In Peru, delicious grapes of very 

 large size are grown. Many of the native grapes found growing 

 wild in our woods at the North, are much larger than any foreigo 

 grapes I ever saw abroad, and only require careful cultivation to ena- 

 ble us to obtain fine varieties already acclimated. 



"We shall become a wine making people; and that day is not far 

 distant; as we are weekly adding to our population foreigners, who 

 have always been accustomed to a national beverage expressed from 

 the grape, and without which, so strong is habit, they cannot exist 

 Let them commence its culture, and demonstrate its advantage, and I 

 assure you our enterprising countrymen will not long let them enjoy 

 a monopoly. Until that happy day arrives, you may depend upon it, 

 no human exertion can arrest the progress of the habitual drunkard. 

 Let one-third of the enormous sums annually expended by philan- 

 thropic persons and communities for the purpose of coercing and 

 constraining their fellow man to give up, against his will and incli- 

 nation, the use of ardent spirits, be appropriated to the encourage- 

 ment of the vine-grower, and take my word for it, the rising gene- 

 ration will be a temperate people. 



During a long absence abroad, I never saw in vine-growing dis- 

 tricts, a drunken man, and it was because all those countries have a 

 national and cheap beverage, made chiefly from the juice of the 



