178 On the Cultivation of the Vine? 
fatal effects of intoxication makes an impression on those 
addicted to this vice, and particularly on women, who 
most frequently become the victims of it. Perhaps the 
frightful details of so horrid an evil as that of combus- 
tion will reclaim drunkards from this horrid practice. 
Plutarch relates, that at Sparta children were deterred 
from drunkenness by exhibiting to them the spectacle of 
intoxicated slaves, who, by their hideous contortions, 
tilled the minds of these young spectators with so much 
contempt, that they never afterwards got drunk. This 
state of drunkenness, however, was only transitory. 
How much more horrid it appears in those unfortunate 
victims consumed by the flames and reduced to ashes ! 
May men never forget that the vine sometimes produces 
very bitter fruit— disease, pain, repentance, and death ! 
f To he continued. J 
No. 25 . 
A Treatise on the Cultivation of the Vine , and the Me- 
thod of Making Wines . By C. Chaptal. 
(Continued from page 138.) 
Exposure.— The same climate, the same cultivation, 
and the same soil, often furnish wines of very different 
qualities. We may daily see some mountain, the sum- 
mit of which is entirely covered with vines, present in 
its different aspects astonishing varieties in the wines 
they produce. Were we to judge of places by compar- 
ing the nature of their productions, we should be often 
induced to believe that every climate and every kind of 
soil has concurred to furnish productions which, in fact, 
are only the natural fruit of the same lands differently 
exposed. 
