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Rh the vines at the Cape of Good Hope, are said to have been originally carried out from Burgundy, and none of the Cape wines have any resemblance to those of that province. Most of the wine drank at Madrid is made from stocks originally from the same country.

History informs us, that vine plants, carried from Greece into Italy, produced no longer the same wine; and that the celebrated vines of Falernum, cultivated at the foot of Vesuvius, have changed their nature.

Warm climates, in favouring the production of saccharine matter, generally produce strong spirituous wines, sugar being necessary to the