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devife. The pretence, I know, has been 

 the fear of a want of corn ; but, if the na- 

 ture of the foil upon which vines are ufually 

 planted, and efpecially jn the fouth of 

 France, a country by no means well adapte4 

 for producing corn, be well confidered, 

 I have no doubt but the reafon will be found 

 entirely fallacious* 



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