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Bogen, Cornew and Son, Work and others, from 

 ninety to one hundred thousand bottles of Catawba." 

 A writer in New York says: "In our own state 

 there is already much wine made from the Isabella 

 grape — in Orange county — ^in Columbia county — 

 among the Sliakers — and on the banks of the Hud- 

 son in the neighborhood of the city. We have 

 tried many of these wines, and although want of 

 experience and improper treatment are manifest, yet 

 there is sufficient merit in them, to insure us in the 

 prediction, that the grape culture will soon prove to 

 be one of the most valuable fields for enterprise 

 ever presented to the people of the state of New 

 York. Here is the soil, here the climate for the 

 Isabella; as Ohio is to the Catawba, so will this 

 state be to this grape. Here, too, is the market, so 

 the cost of transportation will be trifling ; and the 

 day may not be far off when ships shall lay beside 

 the rich vineyards on the Hudson's banks, to receive 

 the golden fraughtage for distant Europe. In com- 

 paring: o^r wines with those of Europe, we must 

 La,f„mi„dtha.th,y„edi=«„ctmto,ft<,m 

 any, or all of them. Sparkling Catawba is not 

 Champagne, nor can Isabella be compared with 

 any other wine known in the world. It is a pecu- 

 lianty of these wines that no spurious compounds 

 can be made to imitate them, and in purity and 

 delicacy, there is none equal to them." The most 

 expensive wine in Europe is the Tokay, and it is 

 also the lowest in alcoholic per-centage, being 9.85. 



But we find by the analysis of Dr. Chilton, that 



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