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which sold some years back for 11,000 florins (916/. 12,s.), 

 The management of this vineyard, with which, as at 

 Johannisberg, a farm is connected, is a perfect pattern 

 of rural economy ; leaving nothing to desire that science, 

 experience, and diligence can dictate. It is managed as 

 a private domain of his Highness the Duke of Nassau, 

 and under the direction of the present manager, Mr. 

 Kopp, serves as a model for the winzers of the Rhine. 

 As at Johannisberg, everything proceeds in military 

 order. The men who work in the vineyard are enlisted 

 rather than hired, and are furnished with instructions 

 which, as they are well paid, they fear to disobey. The 

 predominant grape in the vineyard is the Riesling ; but 

 the immense extent of wall furnishes a large quantity of 

 nearly every description of grape, and its produce would 

 soon undeceive such as suppose that grapes can be raised 

 under glass to vie in flavour with those grown in a fa- 

 vourable climate in the open air. The view from this 

 vineyard is more extensive than that from the Johannis- 

 berg, but is different, inasmuch as the Rhine is more 

 distant from the spectator. 



If the Steinberg vineyard is on a larger scale, the 

 cellar at Eberbach surpasses that of Johannisberg still 

 more. The visitor is admitted from the court-yard into 

 a vaulted basement story which has an extensive anti- 

 vault ; and if he has any claim on the hospitality of the 

 place, he there sees the cellar in its whole extent, 

 lighted up by numerous lamps flickering on the butts like 

 spirits, in a manner that recalls the well-known bacchana- 

 lian scene in ' Vivian Grey.' But this cellar contains not 

 the choice of a single growth alone. The ducal vineyards 

 run through the Rhinegau from Hochheim to Assmanns- 



