Of white Ports the best are _Muscatel de Jesus_ (the testimony to religious influence in this and the _Lacryma Christi_ is extremely touching), considered the prince of all, the _Dedo de Dama_, the _Ferral Branco_, _Malvazia_ (our Malmsey),[37] _Abelhal_, _Agudelho_, _Alvaraça_, _Donzellinho_, _Folgozão_, _Gonveio_, White _Mourisco_, _Rabo da Ovelha_, and _Promissão_. Of the black Ports the finest is _Touriga_, and the sweetest _Bastardo_. Other dark Ports are _Souzão_, the darkest of all, _Aragonez_, _Pegudo_, besides _Tintas_, whose names are legion. Other wines grown here, or in the immediate vicinity, are _Alvarilhão_, a kind of Claret, _Alicante_, _Muscatel_, _Roxo_, and _Malvazia Vermelha_. Great quantities of wine are produced in the _quintas_ outside the line of demarcation, and some of these wines are equal to those made in the wine district of the _Alto Douro_ itself. Red wines transformed into French Clarets at Bordeaux, are exported in large quantities. A wine from Tarragona, known as “Spanish Red,” or superb Catalan, is sent yearly to England, and sold as very full, rich, fruity, and tawny Port. Port will not keep good in the cask for more than two years without the addition of alcohol. The Oporto merchants use a pure spirit distilled from the wine itself. The old Port which we prize so highly and pay for so dearly is seldom unaffected by brandy or other spirit. [Illustration: INTRODUCTION OF THE GOUT.] [Illustration: THE GOUT.] Some of the best wines are produced by Estremadura, such as _Bucellas_, _Collares_, _Lavradio_, _Chamusca_, _Carcavellos_, _Barra a Barra_, and many others of which not even the names are known in England. The vines round Torres Vedras might, it has been said, produce the finest wines in the world, if properly cultivated. _Arinto_ and _Estremadura_ are comparatively new wines. The white wines of Tojal and the vintages of Palmella and Inglezinhos have only to be known to become popular. The province of Traz-os-Montes, in spite of its climate of _nove mezes de inverno, e tres de inferno_, produces excellent wines in the Piaz Vinhateiro. Those in the vicinity of the river Tua and the Sabor are considered by connoisseurs to resemble the celebrated _Clos Vougeot_. There is a remarkable red wine called _Cornifesto_, and the white wines of _Arêas_, _Bragança_, _Moraes_, _Moncorvo_, and _Nosedo_ are excellent. The cup of _Charneco_ (2 Hen. VI. ii. 3), a wine mentioned by Beaumont and Fletcher and Decker, is said to have been made at _Charneco_, a village near Lisbon (_European Magazine_, March, 1794). Port-wine is accredited with producing gout, and the two accompanying illustrations give the “Introduction to the Gout,” and the real fiend itself. RUSSIA.