1892 Drinks of the world

DRINKS.

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and aptly illustrative of the two good things of those countries, Corn and Wine, which, with the Olive and Honey, made an earthly Paradise for the inhabitants thereof. It shows how much they appreciated Wine, when they deified it. As to the Hebrews, they were well acquainted with wine, and placed Noah's beginning to be a husband-

man, and planting a vineyard, as the earliest thing he did after the subsidence of the flood. Throughout their sacred writings. Wine is frequently mentioned, and intoxication must have been very well known among them, judging by the number of passages making mention of it. A great variety of wines is not named — nay, there are only two specifically mentioned