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(hillings a pound; which produces about 

 eighty pounds fterling. This account I had 

 from Mr. Eden, the gardener, who planted the 



vine. With regard to the profits of it, I 



think it probable from the accounts I have had 

 from other hands, that when the grapes ripened 

 earlier, they produced much more than eighty 

 pounds. A gentleman of character informed 

 me, that he had it from Sir Charles Raymond 

 himfelf, that after fupplying his own table, he 

 has made a hundred and twenty pounds a 

 year of the grapes; and the fame gentleman, 

 who was curious, inquired of the fruit-dealers, 

 who told him, that in fome years, they fup- 

 pofed the profits might have amounted to 

 three hundred pounds. This does not con- 

 tradict Mr. Eden's account, who faid, that 

 the utmoft he ever made of it (that is, I 

 fuppofe, when the grapes fold at four millings 

 a pound in June) was eighty-four pounds. At 

 the loweft calculation, the profits were pro- 

 digious. The flem of this vine was, in the 



year 1789, thirteen inches in circumference. 



But the vine, even as a timber-tree, hath 

 it's place in hiftory. Mr. Miflbn, a traveller, 



of 



