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tivated in Gaul, and when Cresar conquered Gaul he found 
vineyards in many places, and noted that the grapes of Mar- 
seilles and of the Narbonne were nothing inferior to those of 
Greece and Italy. 
In 316 Saint Martin of Tours brought to the inhabitants of 
the banks of the Loire the Gospels and the Vine. About the 
middle of the same century Ausonius praises the oysters found 
on the shores of Medoc, a bivalve that he says was as highly 
- esteemed at the table of the Emperors as the excellent wine 
that came from Bordigala or Bordeaux. Ten centuries later, 
Pope Clement, when the Holy See was at Avignon, had his 
vineyard at Medoc; and at this day a few old amateurs of 
claret, at the residence Locust and Seventh streets, highly 
relish Chateau Pape Clement—a light claret of fine flavour and 
aroma—no one of whom would think of protesting against this 
Pope’s judgment in wine, whatever his dogmas on theology 
might be. Brillat Savarin, in his *‘ Physiologie du Goit,’’ says 
‘*that wine, the most lovely of all drinkables, we owe to Noah, 
who planted the vine, and to Bacchus, and dates from the in- 
fancy of the world; and that wine drank in moderation 
increases the energy of all the human faculties. The heart, 
the brain, the organs of secretion, and the muscular system, 
acquire by its use an augmented vitality.’’ 
- THE VINE AND CIVILIZATION, 
Professor J. Babrius lectured in 1840 to certain students of 
Bordeaux, on the geography, the history and the effects of the 
cultivation of the vine, and the consumption of wine, on the 
civilization of man. As Babrius was a learned man, of great 
research and enthusiasm on the subject he so ardently advo- 
