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COOLING
CUPS
AND
DAINTY
DRINKS.
WINES.
Wine,
that
glorious
juice
of
the
grape,
elegantly
designated
by
an
ancient
poet
as
a
recompense
given
for
the
miseries
incurred
by
mankind
through
the
Deluge,
has
puzzled
poets
and
historians
in
all
ages
to
account
satisfactorily
for
its
discovery.
It
has
been
ascribed
to
Noah,
and
many
other
ancient
celebrities,
but
its
origin
has
been
accounted
for
in
so
misty
and
vague
a
manner,
and
accompanied
by
circumstances
so
fabulous,
that
we
forbear
all
attempts
at
unravelling
the
web
of
its
ancient
history,
and
propose
to
come
at
once
to
a
descrip-
tion
of
its
best-known
varieties,
and
of
the
chief
characteristics
of
those
kinds
with
which
we
are
now
most
familiar.
The
Vine,
which
is
a
native
of
the
middle
regions of the
temperate
zone,
has
been
an
object
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