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21.

Madeira

Septr. 1768

as they can, the stalks &c are then collected tyed together with a rope, & put under a square peice of wood which is pressd down by a Leaver, to the other end of which is fastned a stone that may be raisd up at pleasure by a screw; by this way & this only they make their wine, & by this way probably Noah made his when he had newly planted the first vineyard after the general destruction of mankind, & their arts; tho it is not impossible that he might have used a better, if he rememberd the ways he had seen us'd before the flood.

it was with great dificulty that some (and not as yet all) of them were persuaded not long ago to graft their vines & by this means bring all the fruit of a vineyard to be of one sort, tho before the vine which it producd had been spoild by different sorts of bad ones which were

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