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agent, who refides condantly at Tokay, for the pur- 
pofe of buying wine. The prefent agent is a major 
in the Ruffian fervice, and formerly was a major- 
general. He commonly purchafes every year from 
40 to 60 antheils of Auipruch, but never of any 
other fort. 
One of the principal proprietors, who relides at 
Cafchaw *, told me, that he would engage to de- 
liver the bed: old Tokay (i. e. Aufpruch), in bottles, 
at London, for a ducat a bottle, containing two thirds 
of a quart, or confiderably cheaper in calk, and would 
put his own feal on it, and infure it. 
It is much the bed way to tranfport it in calks ; for 
when it is on the feas, it ferments three times every 
feafon, and refines itfeif by thefe repeated fermenta- 
tions. When in bottles, there mud be an empty 
fpace left between the wine and the cork, otherwise 
it would burd the bottle. They put a little oil on 
the furface, and tie a piece of bladder on the cork. 
The bottles are always laid on their Tides in fand. 
I am perfuaded an Englidi merchant, or company 
of merchants, would find their account in edablifh- 
ing a correfpondence with one of the principal pro- 
prietors in the country, or in fending an agent to 
refide at Tokay, who might watch the opportunity 
of the good vintages, choofe the bed expofures, and 
bargain with the proprietors themfelves. They fhould 
have cellars there to keep the wine to a proper age, 
and an agent at Warfaw, and another at Dantzic, 
to receive it. This is the road it mud take The 
carriage, as I was informed, from Tokay to the fron- 
* The Baron Vefey, prefident of the chamber 6f Cafchaw, 
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