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EAST
INDIA
MADEIRA.
The
character
and
description
of
this
Wine,
as
considered
the
best,
and
bearing
the
highest
price
in
the
market,
is,
that
possessed
of
the
greatest
richness
and
flavor,
without
any
of
that
apparent
tendency
to
acidity
and
want
of
body,
by
which
the
lower
qualities
of
it
are
distinguished.
The
most
approved
of
the
West
India
Madeira
Wines,
though
seldom
purchased
at so
high
a
price,
in
many
instances,
rank,
in
point
of
quality,
before
those,
which
belong
to
the
inferior
class
of
East
India
Madeiras,
and
one
of
the
frauds,
therefore,
committed
on
the
Public,
through
the
medium
of
the
extraordinary
cheap
prices
\ve
daily
see
ad-
vertised,
is,
by
the
substitution
and
sale
of
the
ar-
ticle
of
West
India
Maderia,
for
the
finest
quality
of
the one,
on
which
I
am
now
treating.
The
method
whereby
the
adulteration,
or
rather
the
manufacture
of a
spurious
imitation,
of
East
India
Madeira
is
performed,
is,
by
admixing
a
portion
of
the
genuine
Wine,
with
a
quantity
of
Vidonia,
or
Direct
Madeira,
and
East
India
Cape
;
fined,
and
racked
bright
from
the
lees
;
the
latter,
though
bearing
a
much
higher
price,
than
Cape,
which
has
not
had
the
benefit
of
a
voyage,
from
the
Cape
of
Good
Hope
to
the
East
Indies,
and
thence
back
to
London,
forming
a
valuable
in-
gredient,
to
assist
in
lowering
the
cost,
so
as
to
enable
the
advertiser,
to
placard
the
composition,