Observations on Various Passages of Scripture, Placing Them in a New Light, Vol. 4 of 4

Excerpt from Observations on Various Passages of Scripture, Placing Them in a New Light, Vol. 4 of 4: And Ascertaining the Meaning of Several, Not Determinable by the Methods Commonly Made Use of by the Learned; First American, From the Fourth

If their vines too were as useful then as they are now, the loss of them was very great. Their fruit serves for a considerable part of the entertainments they give their friends: so Norden was treated by the Aga of Essuaen with coffee, and some bunches of grapes of an excellent taste.* If we may believe Maillet, they make still more of the leaves of their vines than they do of their fruit, using them, when young, prodigiously for minced meat being one great part of their diet, they wrap it up in little parcels in vine leaves, and laying thus leaf upon leaf, they season it after-their mode, and so cook it, and make of it a most exquisite sort of food, and one of the most deli cions that comes upon their tablessl' But besides these uses, they make some wine, which, though it is now made in very small quantities, as it is also in other Mohamme dan countries, yet was anciently much more plentiful, and even exported: for though Egypt never produced wine in such quantities as to be tolerably proportionate to the number of its inhabitants, as in other countries; yet they made so much, and that so delicious, as that it was carried to Rome, and so much drank there, as to be very well known in that seat of luxury, insomuch that Maillet, who never forgets any ofthe excellencies of this country, tells us, it was the third in esteem oftheir winesjfi It was made then without doubt, and in considerable quantities, for the use of Pharaoh and of his court, who probably could procure no such wine from abroad: nor were ac quainted with such liquors as the great now drink in Egypt: and consequently the loss of their vines must have been considerable.

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