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4. It Teems to me an Argument founded 
in Nature, that Meat and Drink produced 
by the fame Earth where we live, and 
were born; growing up in the fame Air 
we breathe, warmed by the fame Degree 
of Heat we enjoy, and fed by the fame 
Fluids which nourifh our own Bodies, and 
all which Cuflom has rendered familiar to 
our Anceftors and us : I fay, it feems to 
me highly reafonable, that fuch Meat and 
Drink fhould be more agreeable to our Bo- 
dies, than any imported foreign Drink^ 
produced in a more fulphurous Earth, and 
a more rarefied Air and Water. Though 
I deny not the Friendlinefs of thin and tar-* 
tarous Wines to the Studious and Valetu-* 
dinary. But how fmall a Quantity of thefe 
Wines have we, in Proportion to the great 
Demands for Wine amongft us ? 
5. As the Climate produces a 
more robuft and hardy People than hot 
Countries generally do, fo are they more 
induftrious and laborious, and therefore can 
bear a ftronger and more nutritious Diet, 
which does not fo quickly evaporate, but 
is of longer Duration and Nutrition in 
hard- wrought Bodies, that can only be fup- 
ported by a ftrong Diet, And therefore if 
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