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in fummer ; but the ufe of it is not gene^ 

 ral ; and it is feldom drank by people of 

 quality. Thus great fums go annually out 

 of the country for wine 5 as they have no 

 vines here, of which they could make a li- 

 quor that is fit to be drank. The common 

 people drink water; for it is not yet cuf- 

 tomary here to brew beer of malt j and 

 there are no orchards large enough to fup- 

 ply the people with apples for making cy- 

 der. Some of the people of rank, who 

 poflefs large orchards, fometimes, out of 

 euriofity, get a fmall quantity of cyder 

 made. The great people here, who are 

 ufed from their youth to drink nothing but 

 wine, are greatly at a lofs in ticne of war; 

 when all the (hips which brought wine are 

 intercepted by the Englijh privateers. To- 

 wards the end of the laft war, they gave 

 two hundred and fifty Francs, and even one 

 hundred Ecus y for a barrique, or hogfliead, 

 of wine, 



THE prefent price of feveral things, 

 have been told by fome of the greateft mer- 

 chants here, is as follows. A middling 

 horfe cofts forty Francs * and upwards > a 

 good horfe is valued at an hundred Francs, 



[ *^ franc is the fame as livrg ; and twenty- two Livres 

 maker* pound fterling. 



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