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 upon which the nett profit was about 61. 

 But a gentleman in his neighbourhood has, 

 he allured me, made ill. an acre nett pro- 

 t, which, being much more than I had 

 before heard of, I enquired the reafon of fo 

 great a produce; but they could give me no 

 account of particulars, and did not feem to 

 think the thing very extrrordinary. TKey 

 have got into the way, within a few years, 

 to make red Champagne in this neighbour- 

 hood, for which their principal vent is ia 

 Flanders and Germany; but it is not reck- 

 oned to be Ip beneficial in the culture as the 

 white. 



The corn hufbandry here is the open 

 field management of fallow, wheat, and 

 barley : wheat yields two quarters and an 

 half an acre; barky, three; and when rye 

 , n, the produce amounts to fomething 

 better than wheat. In fome villages, of 

 particularly fine land, they get four quarters 

 an acre of every fort of corn. 



Leaving Efpernay the 3oth, I took the 

 road to Chafteau Thiery, through a moft 

 rich and beautiful country, finely chequered 

 with vineyards, corn, fields, fainfoine, and 

 many other crops, with fome inclofures, 



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