Foreign Vegetables.' 1^7 
eluding no Stones. It is cultivated in Zante , Ce - 
phalonia , and other Iflands fubjedt to the States of 
Venice. There are fome Trees which bear white 
Grapes, but fuch only, as produce black, are ufu- 
ally propagated. 
In the Month of Auguft , when the Grapes are 
ripe, they are gathered, and fpread about thin up- 
on the Ground to dry in the Sun ; and then are 
carefully cleanfed and put up into Ware-houfes, 
where an Opening is left in the Roof of the Build- 
ing to receive them. When the Place is quite full 
up to the Top, they gradually fink down lower 
by their own Weight, and in a fhort Time are 
clotted fo together, that pointed Tools of Iron are 
employed to dig them out. After this, when they 
are put into Buts for Exportation, a Man gets into 
the Veflel barefoot, and as the Currants are thrown 
in, one Parcel after another, he tramples upon 
them, prefling them always into a leflfer Space \ in 
order not only, that the Veflel may contain more, 
but alfo, that the Currants, by thus excluding the 
Air, may keep longer without fpoiling. The Con- 
fumption of this Commodity is very great *, for 
befldes what is fpent in the Shops for Phyflck, a 
much larger Quantity is taken off for the Ufes of 
the Kitchen. 
Raifins and Currants contain a fweet melleous 
Juice, lefs vifeid than that of Jujubes, or Sebeftens, 
but more nutritive. However, as they readily fer- 
ment, no wonder that too large a Quanty of them 
fliould diforder the Belly ; for they render the Bile 
more fluid and a&ive like other fweet Subftances, 
which are generally faid to change into Bile. More- 
over they divide and attenuate all the Juices in 
the Body, removing their Vifcidity and difpofing 
crude Humours to Concodlion. They are com- 
mended for relaxing the Belly, and being fervice- 
