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PREFACE
THE
Persian
astronomer,
sage,
and
one-
time
tent
maker
for
other
people
—
Omar
Khayyam
—
was
one
of
the
first
to
extol
the
merits
of
vinous
beverages:
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We
probably
owe
the
first
"household"
wine
manufactured
to
that
able
Naval
Constructor
named
Noah;
for
he
planted
and
cultivated
the
vine.
Bacchus
was
the
reputed
inventor
of
fermented
wine;
Osiris
was
the
originator
of
beer
in
the
torrid
clime
of
Egypt,
and
for
many
centuries
the
world
had
to
exist
on
what
we
have
heard
so
much
of
lately
"Light
wines
and
beer."
It
was
reserved
for
those
hoary
Arabian
chemists
and
alchemists,
it
makes
little
difference
which,
to
discover
the
process
of
extracting
the
spirituous
part
in
which
the
strength
lies,
namely,
by
distilla-
vii.