128 TRAVELS THROUGH 

 dunged every year; and, added he, it would 

 not require any very great quantity of lu- 

 cern for this, if care was taken to litter the 

 cattle well, and to mix earth with the 

 dung. 



Dining at Meaux, I reached Laguy by 

 night, paffing through a fine country, with 

 fine inequalities, upon the Hopes of wliich 

 the vineyards hang in a manner that renders 

 the views very rich ; and in Summer they 

 muft be exceedingly fo. At Montigny their 

 vineyards do not yield above 3!. an acre clear 

 profit, and the wine in all this country is 

 much inferior to thofe of Champagne. 

 Near Laguy, I faw much lucern, and upon 

 the hills, fainfoine : fome peafants, of whom 

 I made enquiries at Checy, informed me, 

 that the foil they preferred for lucern is a 

 deep rich loam, the ftiffnefs of it, or its ap- 

 proaching a clay, is not of confequence, 

 provided it be dry, and free from weeping 

 fprings, and no water fuffered to remain on 

 the furface. The land that does for it will 

 not do for vineyards ; whereas the fainfoine 

 grows and fiourifhes bed on high, dry, 

 chalky, or rocky hills, which will not fuit 

 lucern. Lucern lafts, on the proper foil, 



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