DUPOUR'8 book 31 



Adapted to the soil and climate of the United 

 States." Upon the title-page he speaks of himself 

 as "formerly of Swisserland, and now an American 

 citizen, cultivator of the vine from his childhood, 

 and for the last twenty-five years occupied in that 

 line of business, first in Kentucky, and now on the 

 borders of the Ohio, aear Vevay, Indiana." The Look 

 was printed in Cincinnati in L826, by S. J. Browne. 

 The author set out to distribute his book to friends 

 in Kentucky, but took sick on the journey, and re- 

 turned to the new settlement at Vevay, where he 

 died early in 1827. John Francis Dufour resigned 



his office of A late Judge in 1827, in order thai 



he might give his attention to the administration of 

 his brother's estate. In 1828, we find John Jam< 

 son, Daniel Vincent, who had come to America when 

 he r--a.-h.-d his majority, selling seventy-five acres 

 of the old vineyard tracl to Michael Salter for two 

 and a-half dollars an acre. The land was not 

 deeded to Salter, however, until April 23rd, 1831, 

 u ' ll " n he had paid a note which was given in 

 partial settlement for the land. The land upon which 

 the vineyard and buildings stood is now the property 

 of I McQuery, who.- grandfather is said to 



have procured it from the Dufours in l - 



The traveler who visits the spot to-daj finds an 

 open glebe stretching from the Kentucky River to the 

 nill « (Fi ^- 3). Upon this lowland he will Bee a 

 clump of bushes and poke-weeds, and a few ston. 

 :. 4), marking the site of the old log houa 

 which perished about L845 to 1850. Near bj is a 

 broken and hollow ,„•.■„■ ,,,. , .-, , ,,,,.,.,. ,.;.,., m 

 diameter, which tradition rae brought from 



