[1501] Acetic acid; the result, no doubt, of the faulty mode of manufacture universally prevalent; their wines contained evidently but little alcohol.
[1502] See B. xxiii. c. 24, and B. xxxvi. c. 48.
[1503] A process very likely, as Fée remarks, to turn the wines speedily to vinegar.
[1504] Down to one-third. This practice of using boiled grape-juice as a seasoning, is still followed in Spain in making some of the liqueurs; but it is not generally recommended.
[1506] Asia Minor, namely.
[1509] It produces but a very minute quantity of resin, which is no longer an article of commerce.
[1510] See B. xiii. c. [11], and B. xvi. c. [21]. Not the cedar of Lebanon, probably, which only gives a very small quantity of resin, but one of the junipers.