This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1826 edition. … ciesof the Sweetwater, or. the same sort we used to cultivate in Swisserland, about thirty 5’ears ago,–an early kind, but of small increase; while on the opposite, or left shore of the river, they had a species called the Gouet or Gowet, very prolific, but, indifferent for wine. They told me, that the Hollanders used to buy the grapes of those vineyards and carry them to Holland, for which they often paid a French crown per gallon; while, on the left side, the wine sells for a few cents only–and, for fear, some of that cheap sort should be mixed, they keep as many Clerks, as they have carriers of the grapes, from the vineyard to the press, to have them overseen all the time. I had drank some of that wine at Rotterdam; and as 1 found it not answering its renown, I took a small bottle in my bag, of some I made in Swisserland; when I came to Maestrickt,and at Mentz, I called for a bottle of Old Hock, for which I had to pay one French crown, and compared it with my own, which was found to be nearly of the same quality, but much better and stronger, although only 10 months old, and carried three hundred miles in the hottest of the summer, in a pint bottle. If the navigation of the Rhine was as free as that of the Mississippi, the Swiss, could furnish Holland with the best of of Old Hock, for about the fifth of the price, but the Powers who rule along the Rhine, keep that market for their own subjects; there are vines along the Rhine as far north as the Boon. About Paris, and a part of Burgundy, the vines are kept much like those on the Rhine, which is also the way along the Lake of Geneva, except, that many of them are not in rows, but all over as if sown broad cast, about one plant on each square yard; it is chiefly, red wine which they…

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