ON COLONIAL WINES. 249 
EAELY STUDY OF AUSTRALIAN WINES, FEOM 1859 
TO 1866. 
I think, then, that any contribution to the further 
= vW f e of this important branch of colonial S£ 
tees will be of some use; and that I need no further 
apology for placing before the readers an outline or 
« of my investigations, chiefly since 1866-7 in 
the plainest manner I know how 
fJo • W™ 11 ? 1 ° f May ' 1867 ' 1 read an «»y on 
Coloma Wine before the membersof the Royal Society 
of Victoria, winch was afterwards published in the 
STeLT b th f b ; dy ' circulated iQ ^ hlet 
Ld I t ° f A ^ ricult ^ ^d subsequently 
found worthy to be translated into German, which was 
done b Mr. ^ ^ >. ^ 
men. Tha essay, or paper, referred, in the first part 
^7^7° f 'T dChM Rations into! 
most of the leading characteristics of Australian Wine 
85 9 Td r, myl T d betveen the latter of 
18o9 and December, 1866. Many of the samples 
New ^ South Wales, the first and by far the West 
number and variety being either "Camden Pa k ^ 
by n°k : luda i hmnis ' introduced **» ™*z 
These investigations comprised the specific gravity 
of each sample, its amount of absolute alcohol, ul 
hanged sugar gt any), percentage of residue after 
evaporation, power of keeping and resisting acidity 
