MoJitrcal, 



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in fummer ; but the ufe of it is not gene- 

 ral ; and it is feldom drank by people of 

 quality. Thus great fums go annually out 

 of the country for wine; as they have no 

 vines here, of which they could make a li- 

 quor that is fit to be drank. The common 

 people drink water; for it is not yet cuf- 

 tomary here to brew beer of malt ; and 

 there are no orchards large enough to fup- 

 ply the people with apples for making cy- 

 der. Some of the people of rank, who 

 pofiefs large orchards, fometimes, out of 

 ouriolity, get a fmall quantity of cyder 

 made. The great people here, who arc 

 ufed from their youth to drink nothing but 

 wine, are greatly at a lofs in time of war; 

 when all the fhips which brought wine are 

 intercepted by the RngliJJ^ privateers. To- 

 wards the end of the laft war, they gave 

 two hundred and fifty Francs^ and even one 

 hundred Eciis^ for a barriq^uc, or hogfhead, 

 of wine. 



The prefent price of feveral things, I 

 have been told by fome of the greateft mer- 

 chants here, is as follows. A middling 

 horfe cofts forty Francs * and upwards ; a 

 good horfe is valued at an hundred Francs^ 



* Franc is the fame as Livre ; and twenty- two Liirts 

 make a pound fterling. 



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