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Ottawa Debr 12, 54 Doctr J.A. Kennicott Dr Sir Returned here last Saturday, the cold weather so unfavourable shall not make our 2000 Gls., wine, this season, Your notice of my Port, as "sweet tipple" is unfortunate for the reputation of an article manufactured solely for medicinal purposes, & it does not help it any to admit that it is better than Nineteen twentieths of liquor shop mixtures, it is so superior to all or any of them that I consider a comparison with the best as deregatory, There are six counties in Illinois that would have furnished the present season, had the wild grapes been seasonably secured, 250,000 Gallons of as good & pure wine as was ever shipped from the Land of Oporto, & considering that the purest imported Port wine is hightly adulterated, I was certain Shall try my hand at the Treatise on the vine & wine making soon, indeed have been head & heels in the latter the last three weeks - friends all well truly Yr friend, H. L. Brush