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sié NATURAL HISTORY. 
prépare in India. Som¢, indeed is prepared in En- - 
gland and other parts, by fteeping the frefh roots two 
ina balneo, which fwells and fottensit. [tis then | 
boiled,’ either flitor whole, with refined fugar, unt 
it becomes a fyrup. . fia 
| hope MEMES HY — 
CURRANT VINES. 
‘Vass vine grows moft plentifully in a fpacious § 
plain near the tortrefs of Zant in Greece. . [t pro-” 
duces thofe currants which are called the Corinth © 
grape, vulgarly currants, and are fold by our grocers © 
tor cakes and puddings. They confift of three forts, | 
the red, black andtawny. ‘lhe vine itfelf is low, has” 
thick indented leaves, and is furnifhed like other vines” 
with clafpers at the joints. ‘Ihefe little grapes, which 
grow in bunches, ripen in Auguft, when the people 
of Zant gather, {tone and dry them. They are then) 
carried into the town, depotited through a hole, ina” 
the grand magazine called the Seraglio, where they” 
are prefied in fo compaét a mafs, that jMiacbliged to. 
be cut with an iron inftrument, in order to pack them” 
in cafks and bales:for exportation.—J hefe currants 
are likewife brought from feveral parts of the Le- 
vant: But the fort we moftly ufe, comes from the: 
iflands near the Morea. ‘lhe people near Zant fup- 
pofe we ufe them in dying infiead of eating. The 
raifins {old alfo by our grocers are grapes from vines” 
growing in this country, amd which are dried and) 
p2*ked_ ina fimilar manner to the currants, but with 
the difference of their not being floned. Somedns” 
deed affert that, before they expofe thefe ving 
branches to dry in the fun, they are firft dipped im 
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a-certain liquor prepared for the purpofe. a 
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