Meafure. 
I’lice. 
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All the forts are generally kept in fmall calks, 
called antheils, which legally hold -8o Hungarian 
mediae, a meafure containing about two thirds of an 
Englifh quart. When you buy it of the gentlemen 
who are proprietors, you have commonly more than 
the legal quantity in the antheil ; if from the Greek 
merchants, always lefs. 
The particular year, or vintage, and the age, vary 
the price of this as of all other wines. 
The medium price of the antheil of Effence is 
between 60 and 70 ducats. It is fometimes fold on 
the fpot for more than 100. Prince Radzivil paid 
300 ducats for two antheils about four years ago. 
When the price is 60 ducats, and the antheil large 
meafure, that is, about 90 mediae, it is exa&ly a 
ducat the Englifh quart. 
The price of the Aufpruch is from 26 to about 
3 o d ucats the antheil. This is at the rate of two florins, or 
near a crown the Englifh quart. The Emprefs Queen, 
a little before I was at Tokay, purchafed fome of 
vintage 1754 at 33 ducats, and this was looked 
upon as an extraordinary price. The variety in the 
prices of the E lienee and Aufpruch, accounts for the 
oppoflte relations of people, who fay fometimes that 
it cofts half a guinea, fometimes five (hillings, on 
the fpot. 
There are people who come every year from Po- 
land, about the time of the vintage, to choofe their 
own wine on the ground, and fee it carefully ma- 
naged. But it is a falfe opinion of many, that they 
contract for the wine of feveral years forwards : no 
fuch thing has ever been pradtifed. For thefe lafl: 
twenty years the court of Peterlbourg has had an 
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