104 TRAVELS THROUGH 



G H A P. IV. 



*Tbe Vineyards of Sillery and Mailly Low 

 Profit by Vines Rbeims Manufactures 

 - Sf. Thiery Vamom Vineyards there? 

 Cor n Lands Meadows Ejpernay Vine- 

 yards Culture of Lucern Great Profit 

 Experiments on Lucern -Laguy. 



1HAD fcarce any where met with a 

 more intelligent fenfible perfon than 

 my vigneron -, it was not, therefore, with- 

 out regret, that I took my leave of him. 

 I efteemed myfelf very fortunate in meeting, 

 fo early after my entering the wine country, 

 one who could give me fo fatisfa&ory an ac- 

 count : as from thence I (hould be abJe, in 

 future, to be more pointed in my enquiries, 

 Early on the 27th, I took the road by 

 Mailly and Sillery, both famous for their 

 wines : I remarked, in many of the vine-? 

 yards, that they were carrying dung into 

 the vineyards, all in the fame manner, in, 

 bafkets on the people's heads. I cannot 

 but think, notwithftanding the populouf- 



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