Wines and other fermented liquors : from the earliest ages to the present time. Dedicated to all consumers in the United Kingdom / by James Richmond Sheen.

  • Sheen, James Richmond.
Date:
[1864]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Wines and other fermented liquors : from the earliest ages to the present time. Dedicated to all consumers in the United Kingdom / by James Richmond Sheen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    tains of Koordistan; Michaux found it also in the woods of Mazanderan; and on the opposite side of Persia, a peculiar stoneless variety, the kismisk, is in all probability a native of that part of the country lying on the Persian Gulf. Still further east, on the northern shores of the Arabian Sea, it has been found in Beloochistan. It grows, in company with the olive and fig, along the bases of the Paropamisan moun- tains, extending to Caubulistan, where, with the apricot and peach, it seems as perfectly indigenous as in Anatolia and Karamania, and in these it grows wild in the hearts of the forests. Baron Humboldt speaks of it as growing wild on the banks of the Caspian Sea, in Armenia, and Georgia. Mr. Hawkins also bears testimony to its being plentifully met with in a wild state on the banks of the rivers of Greece. In Armenia it is known to abound ; and as the patriarch Noah planted a vineyard, it may be inferred that this took place not far from Mount Ararat, and that he found the plants, of course indigenous, at no great