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Shillings a pound ; which produces about 

 eighty pounds. This account I had from Mr. 

 Eden himfelf, 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 to have not amounted to lefs 

 than three hundred pounds. This does not 

 contradidt 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 ftem 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, 



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