I received your Favour of the 27th. past, proposing the Cultivation of the Vine in America. Our People conceive that it is yet too early to put such a Project in Execution. Labour is too dear there, and the Culture of Wheat more profitable and certain; in Exchange for which either directly or indirectly, we can procure the Wines of Europe. I cannot therefore give you any Hopes of Success in such an Enterprise; for tho’ proper Land and Climate might be found, the Wines could not be produc’d so cheap as they are imported. I have the honour to be Sir,