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grape, with large berries; confequently it is a proper kind to 
couple with various forts that are fmall and lefs delicate. 
Were the red Frontinac and white Sweetwater wedded to^e- 
ther, their union would, probably, produce a very valuable 
fort, as there would be a good chance of its being both large 
and delicate,’ and well flavoured. The Syrian Vine is only ad- 
mired for producing mofl: aflonifhingly large bunches’, and, 
therefore, I would not advife the joining this coarfe fort to any 
F other 
* This is fuppofedyo be the fort of grape alluded to Numbers xiii. 23. as it foir.e- 
times produces bunches of eight or ten pounds weight and upwards. In the year 
1781, a bunch was ^iroduced at Welbeck that w'eighcd ig pounds and an half. It 
was prcfented by his Grace the Duke of Portland to the late Marquis of Rocking- 
ham, and was conveyed to Wentworth-Houfe (a diftance of mere than 20 miles) 
by four labourers, who carried it, fulpended on a ftaff, in pairs, by turns. Its 
greateft diameter, when hanging in its natural pofition, was 19 inches and an half; 
its circumference fcur feet and an half; and its length 21 inches three quarters. 
The following curious and important note on this extraordinary bunch wasr 
v/ritten at that time by my much-efteerned and learned friend the Rev. Samuel 
Pegge of 'Whittington, by v/hofe permiffion it is here i.nferted ; 
« Our fruit-, as well as our animals, are always found fomewhere in a natural 
“ ftate, and fo we read of zvi/d gropes iji Syria, Ifaiah v. 4. including Falef- 
“ tine, or the land of Canaan in Spda, as we are authorifed to do. 
“ I he Vine, however, foon becam.e an objeR of improvement and cultlva- 
“ tion, f.nce Noah, afrer the Y\o<jA^ planted a Vineyard^ Gen. ix. 20. a.nd is from 
‘‘ thence furpofccl, by feveral learned m.en, to be the Bacchus of the Greeks 
“ and Janus of the Latins ; the name of this latter being derived from an 
“ oriental word, fignifying zvine. 
“ I his 
