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at Verzenay are interchangeably under vines, 

 and this grafs : here vineyards, there fain- 

 foine, and it is found to thrive very much 

 and yield very large crops of hay; but the 

 ufe of it, to which they are moll addicted, 

 is mowing it, and giving it green tc the 

 cattle, in penns or houks, by which me- 

 thod they manage to raife very great quan- 

 tities of .dung. 



. My friend made me remark the foil of 

 his vineyard, which he accounted excellent: 

 it was a light brown loam, with many x 

 jftones in it. I have feen jutt fuch land in 

 England in many places. He faid his 

 mafler, at a fmail diftance, had a vineyard 

 ftill better. I aiked him, if he managed one 

 vineyard for himfelf, and another for his 

 matter? he replied, yes. This was his own, 

 of five acres; but that he undertook for an- 

 other was of twenty-fix a.cres. He re- 

 marked to me^ that all dry flony lands 

 would Jo for vines, but that there was a 

 great difference in them, from their ferti- 

 lity ; that, if the land was perfectly dry, it 

 could riot be too rich; that all fdrf earths, 

 retentive pf water, and clays, are utterly 

 improper. Chalky and marly lands are 



good, 



