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of the same form as the Etruscan vessels from 

 Herculaneum ; they are doubtless made after 

 models transmitted from very remote antiquity, 

 as vessels of these forms are not found in any 

 other parts of France that I have visited. The 

 music of the Auvergnats is the bagpipe. 



'* Many of the families in the lower or middle 

 rank of life, have small vineyards, and make 

 wine for their own use. A freehold vineyard, 

 which costs two hundred francs, or about eight 

 pounds sterling, produced wine, more than suffi- 

 cient for a family of live persons, as we were 

 informed by one of these little proprietors. They 

 cultivate the vineyards themselves ; and seem 

 to live in contented and obscure independence, 

 relying on their own industry for every thing, 

 and preserving the customs of their remote an- 

 cestors." 



\(}th. Sunday. The history of our first pa- 

 rents, and the nature of their transgression, was 

 the subject of our conversation this morning. 

 Towards the end of it, my uncle said, " It is a 

 strange error, though some sensible people seem 

 to have fallen into it, to doubt the truth of this 

 early part of sacred history, because the eating 

 of a certain fruit was apparently too trifling to be 

 considered a trial of obedience. But there is 

 one circumstance which they do not seem to 

 have sufficiently considered ; that, if it was ne- 



