Which do you prefer ?" "The Cerigo wine." "You are right.

I have some rare Cerigo muscatel, and we can taste it if you have no objection to dine with me." "None whatever." "I can likewise give you the wines of Samos and Cephalonia.

I have also a quantity of minerals, plenty of vitriol, cinnabar, antimony, and one hundred quintals of mercury." "Are all these goods here ?" "No, they are in Naples.

Here I have only the muscatel wine and the mercury." It is quite naturally and without any intention to deceive, that a young man accustomed to poverty, and ashamed of it when he speaks to a rich stranger, boasts of his means--of his fortune.

As I was talking with my new acquaintance, I recollected an amalgam of mercury with lead and bismuth, by which the mercury increases one-fourth in weight.