&$ TRAVELS THROUGH 

 dace of an acre of thofe vines does not 

 ufually exceed 3!. or 4!. ; the wine is but 

 indifferent. One circumflance, concerning 

 the vine culture, deferves attention here r 

 the owners have corn lands befides. When 

 I mentioned manuring the latter, they re- 

 plied, they laid on none ; that their vines 

 took up the whole. This is a moft perni- 

 cious thing; for, if their husbandry was 

 fuch as required dung, in order to be bene- 

 ficial, all the effects would be deftroyed for 

 want of it. It can never be right, that a 

 fmall field or two, under vines, mould rob 

 a whole farm of its dung : for then thofe 

 crops, that abfolutely demand it, could not 

 be cultivated. Such, in many countries, are 

 turneps, carrots, cabbages, potatoes, &c. 

 But, in the fyftem which is here purfued^ 

 of fallowing for wheat, and then fowing 

 barley ; they manage tools without it. If 

 better arrangements were to be adopted, the 

 vines muft go without dung, or the farmer 

 lofe much more than they are worth. 



I purpofed getting, by night, to Dieuze ; 

 but the badnefs of the roads detained us fo 

 much, that I found it abfolutely neceffary 

 to flop at the little village of Vergaville, 



where 



