}8 TRAVELS THROUGH 

 all expences whatever, paid a clear profit 

 of about 3!. or 4!. an acre. This very much 

 furprifed me ; for good corn will any where 

 do as much, and certainly with much lefs 

 hazard, trouble^ and expence. My land- 

 lord told me, that he had an intimate ac- 

 quaintance, a Vigneron, at Verzenay, who 

 was reckoned one of the moft attentive and 

 careful managers in all the country, and, 

 if I pleafed, he would give me a letter to 

 him, requefting him to give me all the in- 

 formation I defired. This I readily ac- 

 cepted, and accordingly, when I arofe in, 

 the morning, he had it ready for me. 



I took the road to Rheims, which is 

 thirty miles from Chalons, on the 26th, 

 paffing through a dry, but fine and agree- 

 able country, the foil a light loam, on ei- 

 ther a gravel or kind 6f chalk ; it is, in ge- 

 neral, cultivated j for I faw fcarce any wafte 

 land. About Ambonnay the fields of c6rn 

 are very extenfive, as I faw by the ftubbles, 

 and here and there I obferved pieces of tur- 

 neps. Upon my enquiring concerning their 

 hufbandry, I found the pra&ice was to 

 fallow their lands, and fow rye; of which 

 they get about two quarters and a half art 



acre; 



