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it is not the fame with corn, grafs, and 

 other crops. It is thefe heavy taxes which 

 are fuch a burthen to the people. In Eng- 

 land there is a notion, that the taille is the 

 only grievance of the French land-taxes ; 

 but this is a great miflake : for, in the 

 Pays d'Etat there is as much cpprefilon of 

 the poor peafants, as in the other pro- 

 vinces 3 and I have been told, by fome per- 

 fons very able to judge, that in fome places 

 even more. 



The vineyards about Verzenay are in 

 very different modes of management : fome 

 gentlemen and proprietors keep them en- 

 tirely in their own hands, and cultivate 

 them, either from their own directions, or by 

 means of what we fhould call a bailiff, to 

 whom fomething more is given than the 

 common wages of the country. . This bai- 

 liff does little or no work himfelf, but is 

 conftantly moving about the vines, to fee 

 what is wanting, and to attend to the rnan- 

 ne: in which the peafants perform their 

 contract. There is fcarcely a work done in 

 the whole year that is not put out at fo 

 much a dreffing, fo much a pruning, at fo 

 much for trenching, and even at fo much 



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