8o TRAVELS THROUGH 



points are, the grofs produce and nett profit 

 of an acre of vines. But the people I 

 converfed with here thought them of fd 

 much confequence, as to keep dairies of 

 cows, and flocks of fheep, whole great pro- 

 fit, they thought, was yielding dung for their 

 vineyard, thofe forts of dungs being pre- 

 ferred for vines to any other, and they mix 

 and turn the compofts over with great at- 

 tention, adding a certain proportion of fine 

 light turfy loam, fuch as is found on com- 

 mons. They reckoned the Vigneron's nett 

 profit here 4!. an acre, in fine vineyards, 

 but there are many that do not yield three. 

 They prefer, for a vineyard, ,a high, dry 

 fituation, hanging to the fouth, the foil 

 loofe and loamy, not having any tenacity, 

 but being, to an high degree, friable and 

 crumbling ; it is very light, as light as fome 

 fands ; yet is it not at all fandy. I proceeded 

 to Verzenay, where I enquired for the 

 Vigneron the landlord at Chalons had wrote 

 to. I was prefently fbewn his vineyard, 

 with his houfe by the fide of it. He read 

 the letter, and received me with a certain 

 air of hofpitable pleafure, which the lower 

 people in the country have in France, in 



a higher 



