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... fact amply confirmed by the uncertain yield and frequent failure of our harvests . The cereals , it was remarked , are natives of a warm climate . Wheat , requiring a high temperature to bring it to perfection , thrives best on the dry ...
... fact that , although they possess the largest and the best district in Europe for grape cultivation , the wine which they produce is by no means so good as it ought to be . The whole system of wine - making has been hitherto extremely ...
... fact that there is no wine , however bad , that can now be produced at 127. per pipe in the growing country . There is at present no wine procurable in Spain and Portugal , and fit for England , at less than 241. per pipe - nine eimers ...
... fact , for the whole of that portion of the Austrian empire which lies between the Tyrol and Transylvania . Among its chief exports are ores from the mines of Istria and Hungary , and linen , woollen , and tobacco from various parts of ...
... fact should rather increase our desire for fuller investigation . We look with no degree of anxious sus- picion upon attempts to discover the truth , provided those attempts be conducted with honest integrity of purpose , with fair ...