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Cider the Left of Drinhf. 
Wines have been Imported from Foreign 
parts in great quantities, the Englijh have 
been forced to make ule of the old BritiJfj 
name ©tihcr, or Cider , for diftinftion 
fake, although the name Vinum may be as 
proper for the Juice of the Apple as the 
Grape , if it be derived either from Vi or 
Vincendo , or quafi Divimm , as one would 
have it. 
Alfo the vulgar Tradition of the fcar- 
city of Foreign Wines in England , viz. 
that Sacli which then was Imported for the 
raoft part but from Spain, was fold in the 
Apothecaries Shops as a Cordial Medicine; 
and the vaff increafe ofVineyards in France , 
(Ale and Beer being ufual Drinks in Spain 
and France in Pliny’s time) is an Argument 
fufficient that the name of Wine might be 
attributed to our Britijh Cider , and of 
Vineyards to the places leparated for the 
propagating the Fruit that yields it. 
SECT. II. ' 
Cider preferred to Foreign Wines. 
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Whether it be from the greater degree 
of concodtion in the juice of the Apple, 
being thinner dilperfcd in the body of the 
Fruit., 
