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VINEYARDS. 
BOOK IV. 
A Treatife on the Culture of the Vine would be incomplete 
and deficient, was I to omit giving fome account of 
the formation and progrefs of a Vineyard ; and efpecially in a 
country of which a part is within the vinous latitude*. 
Vineyards 
* The vinous latitude is faid to extend between the 25th and 51ft degree in the 
Northern Hemifphere. 
It isTound, by experience, that all Vineyards in Germany^ fituated within the 
51ft degree, are cultivated with great advantage ; but beyond that limit their fuc- 
cefs is dubious. 
I muft here beg to remark, that the climate is various in difterent countries, 
even under the fame parallel of latitude. Alfo, that the feafons are much more 
favourable in Germany, Pruffia, Poland, Hungary, 5 cc. than under the fame lati- 
tude in the parallel parts of America. And, moreover, that the feafons in Europe 
were much colder formerly than at the prefent. A Celebrated Author has thus 
accounted for this phaenomenon. 
“ Some ingenious writers * have fufpe( 3 :ed that Europe was much colder for- 
“ merly than it is at prefent ; and the moft ancient deferiptions of the cli- 
“ mate of Germany tend exceedingly to confirm their theory. The 
. “ general 
* In particular^ Mr, Hume-, the Abbe du Bos, and M, Pellontier, Hiji. des Celics, 
tom. 1. 
