| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - The ???three sorts of ice-creams??? were in those days a great luxury; for Lord Cockburn, writing of Edinburgh twenty or thirty years later, says:?????? Ice, either for cooling or eating, was utterly unknown, except in a few houses of the highest class.??? Hume's old claret would not have been so costly as in England, for in Scotland claret was exempted from duty till about 1780.
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