58 THE VINE AND CIVILISATION. 
ficiently distant to allow its passage. The grapes are as large 
as plums; these, they say, are of the class that the Hebrews 
saw when approaching the Land of Promise; they might well 
- covet the land that grew them. The Maronites and natives 
drink freely of the wine, and are said to be remarkably con- 
vivial. At Jerusalem white wines are made, but of rather 
poor quality. 
‘The territory of India was the fabled birthplace of Bac- 
chus. This, whether fabulous or not, only relates to the 
territory west of the Sutlej, or as it was anciently called, Hy- 
phasis. Eastward of this the arms of Alexander never pene- 
trated, nor does it appear that the ancients knew anything of 
the country beyond.’’ 
At Lahore, a little to the west of Sutlej, and on another 
tributary of the Scinde or Indus, is the residence of Mr. Ph. 
MacAdam, a near relative of our accomplished citizen, D. H. 
MacAdam. Here wine is made of good quality, and all the 
way from thence to Candahar, in Affghanistan, and northward 
to Cashmere, vines are planted and wine is made. 
At Candahar wine is forbidden to be drunk, according to 
the custom in Mahomedan countries. Those found intoxi- 
cated are punished by being seated upon an ass, with their 
faces toward the tail, and so led through the streets preceded 
by the beating of a gong, surrounded by a crowd of vaga- 
bonds. 
Wine was made on the hills as far south as Golconda dur- 
ing the reign of the great Akbar, whose tomb is at Agra, one 
of the principal towns of British India; and although wine 
was prohibited, it was evidently used in this the noblest city 
of his empire. The wine used at Delhi in the time of Aurung 
Zebe was imported from Persia by land, or by sea at the port 
of Surat. A king of Oude recently showed a fondness for 
