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... Unsaleable if imported Light - Remarks about Gauges --Wine production of Sicily - Shipments to Cette and Marseilles- Consumption and Percentage from 1831 to 1863 403 CONTENTS . CHAPTER XIII . ITALY . xiii Its Wines xii CONTENTS .
... Unsaleable if imported Light - Remarks about Gauges --Wine production of Sicily - Shipments to Cette and Marseilles- Consumption and Percentage from 1831 to 1863 403 CONTENTS . CHAPTER XIII . ITALY . xiii Its Wines xii CONTENTS .
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... Imports of Wine . 5,791,636 gallons . 8.195,513 12.475,001 • 11.052.436 11,960,676 And , to prove the remarkable increase ' they show , in type large enough to be read half - a - mile off , 14,186,189 gallons . 1863 Underneath this ...
... Imports of Wine . 5,791,636 gallons . 8.195,513 12.475,001 • 11.052.436 11,960,676 And , to prove the remarkable increase ' they show , in type large enough to be read half - a - mile off , 14,186,189 gallons . 1863 Underneath this ...
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... imported ; but wine requires time , often many years , during which period of ripening it is either unsaleable or has not reached the value it is supposed that a longer appli- cation of capital will give it , all the while the process ...
... imported ; but wine requires time , often many years , during which period of ripening it is either unsaleable or has not reached the value it is supposed that a longer appli- cation of capital will give it , all the while the process ...
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... imported hitherto than the usual strong kinds , which bear almost any temperature and treatment ; for even claret and other kinds from France , & c . , have been nursed and ma- tured and strengthened before being brought over . This ...
... imported hitherto than the usual strong kinds , which bear almost any temperature and treatment ; for even claret and other kinds from France , & c . , have been nursed and ma- tured and strengthened before being brought over . This ...
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... imported , and peculiarly free from acidity . ' Grapes do not thrive on the Elbe , but potatoes grow in rich abundance in that favoured locality , and yield a fine native spirit ; while the Elbe furnishes an ample supply of what in ...
... imported , and peculiarly free from acidity . ' Grapes do not thrive on the Elbe , but potatoes grow in rich abundance in that favoured locality , and yield a fine native spirit ; while the Elbe furnishes an ample supply of what in ...
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