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Sfecies of vine grapes. 



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checked it, fearing it might turn acid, though, he fays, he ' 

 was afterwards t:onvinced that if he had fuffered it to fer- 

 ment as long again, it would have feparated the vinous 

 parts from the flelhy, and given greater finenefs to the 



liquor. 



" After this it was racked off, and before cold weather 



buried in the garden, the top about fix inches under 

 ground; where having continued till the fummer follow- 

 ing, he could not difcover that it had in the leaft altered, 

 either in tafte or colour. He obferves farther that, after 

 eating a quantity of them, or drinking the juice, they leave 

 an aftringency, as claret is apt to do. 



« There is an immenfe quantity of thefe vines growing 

 on the beach, open to the fea; and they are alfo found in 

 great plenty upon the ridges, and in the fwamps. Since 

 their difcovery he has tranfplanted a number of them into 

 his vineyard, from which, in a year or two more, he ex- 

 peds to make a wine much better than is commonly im- 

 ported.'* 



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END OF THE FIRST VOLUME. 



