Of making other forts of Wines. 
affords, and was in ufe among the An- 
tients that inhabited thefe colder Coun¬ 
tries, before Wine or other Vinous Li¬ 
quors became fo generally ufed; and is 
yet in feveral cold Countries the moft ex¬ 
cellent Drink that they have of their own 
making, where Wines and other Vinous 
Liquors are notloeafily nor well prepared. 
The Sub jeft whereof it is made. Honey, be¬ 
ing to be had in every part of Europe , from 
the moft Southerly parts of Spain, Italy,See. 
to the moft Northerly. It being affirm’d 
by Historiographers ,that there is Hony with-.- 
in the ArclickcC\xc\c. or Frozen Zone. 
Thofe that liv'd formerly in the more 
Southern parts (as P/«y*rcports) made a 
Drink compounded of Hony and tart Wine, 
which they term’d Melitites, by the additi¬ 
on of a Gallon of Hony to five Gallons 
of their Wine, making thereof, no doubt, 
a very pleafant Liquor: to which Virgil 
feems to allude, whenhefings 
1 4 ♦ * ' I 
Dulcia mclla premes 5 ncc tantum clulcia 
quantum 
Et liquida , & durum Bacchi dopntura fa - 
porem , 
