ON VINEYARDS. 
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fituations and foils, where the lands could hardly be rendered 
profitable any other way. And thus,' though the Vines would 
not grow robuft on fteeps of poor gravelly and rocky foils, 
ftill they would be more prolific than Vines planted on rich 
lands, and the fruit would be greatly preferable. 
T^hirdly. The fuccefs of a Vineyard in this country would 
moft effentially depend on the kind of Vines there propagated. 
I believe it has been a prevailing, but furely an erroneous, 
notion, that the fweet early kinds of grapes are the bed to plant 
for the purpofe of making wine in this country. And that 
moft or all of the modern trials have been made from Vines 
brought from France. 
Among the abundant variety of grapes ', I doubt not but 
there are peculiar forts, which are by nature fingularly adapted 
to make wines in different climates. 
Thus, the forts of grapes propagated in the Madeira and 
Canary iflands, might not be found, if tried, to make good 
wines in France. 
B b Hence, 
and although planted with the fame kind of grape, produce a wine not only much 
inferior in its quality and excellence, but alfo very diffimilar in its colour and ap- 
pearance. 
‘ Mr. Swinburne obferves there are forty forts of grapes in the diocefe of 
Syracufe. 
Swinburne's Travels in Sicily, il. p- 34?.. 
