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Geography. 
Received January 8, 1773. 
XXXII. An Account of the Tokay cuid 
other TVines of Hungary, by Sylvefter 
Douglafs, Ffquire : Communicated by 
Edward Poore, Efq y F. R. S. 
Read June io, yt s the growth, quantity, and value 
177 /V of the Tokay wine are little known 
in this country, and the popular notions concerning 
them are in general erroneous, it may be a matter 
both of fome curiofity and ufe, to throw together 
what I was able to collect on this fubjedf, in the 
country where it grows, as well as from the chief 
proprietors of it, both in Hungary and at Vienna. 
I fhall fubjoin a brief account of the other mod: re- 
markable Hungarian wines. 
The town, or rather village, of Tokay, from 
whence this celebrated wine derives its name, Rands 
at the foot, and to the eaft of a high hill, clofe by 
the conflux of the river Bodrug, with the Theis or 
Tibifcus. In the Norimberg map of Hungary, it is 
erroneoufly placed between thefe rivers, for it is 
on the weft fide of both. The inhabitants are 
chiefly either Hungarians of the Proteflant religion, 
or Greeks, who came originally from Turkey, but 
have 
