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The fettlers of Gallipolis are in great hopes of fucceeding in making wine, -- not of the exotic vine, but by cultivating the wild American grape. A fingular circumftance gave rife to thefe hopes. In the Ohio, immediately oppofite to Gallipolis, is a fandy ifland remarkable for the goodnefs of the wild grapes produced on it. They are juicy, the fkin much thinner and the ftone fmaller than the grapes of the fame kind in the other parts of the country. The difference is attributed to the effect of the ice in winter, which when the river rifes, fweeps over the ifland and trimes the vines. This coarfe dreffing, though it happens at an unfavorable feafon of the year, together with the exposed fituation of the ifland to the direct rays of the fun, is conceived to be the refon of the fuperiority of the grapes in this fmall fpot. Very palatable wince has already been made of thefe grapes, and when the hint is improved upon, and a regular courfe of culture beftowed ipon our native vine, (which it is the determination of the fettlers to attempt) Scioto wine, who knows, may perhaps, one day fupplant the Madeira on our tables.
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SOURCE: The Lexington Herald; 1913-03-31
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