ON VINEYARDS. 
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grapes of all Vines, planted within the Jifty-Jirfl degree of the 
“ Northern latitude^ acquire fuch a degree of ftrength, as renders 
them fit for producing good wine, in which the terrene and 
falme principles prevail, though they are more refined and cor- 
“ redted as they advance to maturity ; but as the climate ad- 
“ vances more to the South, they acquire more flrength, and the 
oleaginous and fpintuous principles prevail, and in any confi- 
derable quantity cannot be falutary without being diluted with 
** watery on which account the wines produced in temperately 
** warm climates, where the principles are more equally blended 
and united, are more light, and though generous, more falutary, 
and agreeably adapted to promote focial happinefs, than thofe 
‘‘ produced in either extreme: Such are particularly the French, 
Hungarian, Italian, and fome of ih^SpaniJl: andGerman wines. 
“ It is a juft obfervation, that one half of Germany, which is 
“ to the North of the vinous latitude, is entirely deftitute of any 
“ good wine, while the other half abounds with fertileVineyards, 
** and a variety of good wines; and likewife fliews, that a very 
** moderate addition to the warmth of the climate is fufficient to 
produce excellent wines ; in which the foil principally, with 
other circumftances, has at leaft an equal influence with the 
** warmth of the climate, and in fome inftances a greater, in 
“ giving the peculiar, grateful qualities, for which fome wines 
“ are diftinguiftied. Of this feveral inftances are known, where 
not only the fame climate, but in places very near adjacent, 
from the fame Vines, and in the fame fituation, and afpedl to 
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