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but the proprietor's rsett profit does not 

 commonly exceed 4!. or 5!. Upon my ob- 

 ferving to the Marquis, what I had before 

 remarked often in Champagne, that I did 

 not think fuch a profit at all adequate to 

 the expenditure, he replied, that it muft be 

 confidered as all profit; becaufe the land, 

 perhaps, would yield no other crop half fo 

 well ; and the money we fpend on our 

 vines is not to be thrown into other chan- 

 nels, as the country, being principally 

 open fields, we have not inclofures, where 

 we can do as we pleafe. If a man, inftead 

 of laying out his money upon his vineyard, 

 laid it out on his corn farms, he would pro- 

 bably receive nothing in return : it would 

 then depend on his beggarly metayers, who 

 feldom have judgment or ability to make 

 life of the advantages you put into their 

 hands : therefore, we have no choice; we 

 cannot fpend our money, under our own 

 eyes, in any thing fo well as vines ; and this 

 it is that makes us defirous of occupying 

 all our land with them that is proper for 

 their culture. 



Manufactures, fubfervient to thofe of 

 Lyons, flourim very much over molt, of the 



province 



