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ON VINEYARDS. 
“ the fun, very different wines are produced, which can bt 
“ only owing to the foiL 
“ From hence it is evident, that good wines may be made in 
“ feveral parts of Efigland, wdaich are within this vinous latitude. 
The ingenious Mr. Miller fhews, from ancient records, that 
“ In many parts of England, and particularly near abbeys and 
“ monajleries, good wines were made, and that thefe places are 
flill diftinguifhed with the name of Vineyards ; but how they 
“ were rooted up and negledted, there are no clear accounts left. 
He likewife obferves, that an obftinate prejudice has prevailed 
‘‘ againft making any farther trials, from fome improper ones 
** made near London, where the foil is v\oi friendly to the Vines, 
“ and where the wines werefo injudicloufly made, that under the 
“ fame difadvantages neither thofe of Italy or Fra?2ce would have 
fucceeded. He therefore, with his ufual modefty and candour, 
“ gives his opinion, founded on fome trials, which he had feen 
“ made, and the inftrudlions he had received from feveral perfons 
“ abroad, who cultivated Vineyards for their own ufe, and that 
‘‘ of their friends, and who- have been very exadl In obferving 
the feveral methods of practice among the Vignercns of thofe 
“ countries ; from whence he hopes, that the prejudice which 
“ ffill prevails againff any projedt of this kind might be removed, 
or at lead fufpended, until fome farther trials diall have been 
“ more judicioufly made, which he thence proceeds to direct. 
“ But had he been acquainted with the fuccefs which attended 
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