AT VKVAY 



in memory of other days. In the year 1895, the 

 writer partook of its fruit, which was clearly thai 

 of tin- Catawba; and so the vine could nol have 

 been one of tin- original plantation, as tradition as- 

 it to I"-. Ainu', s<ui of the Mererods, a hale and 

 reminiscenl man of eighty years, is now (1895) the 

 Bole survivor of the grape-growing era of the col- 

 ony. Be lives at Vevay, where he is the oracle of 

 local history. 



Nearly a mile in the rear of the main thoroughfare 

 which follows the river, and part way up the sharp 

 declivity of the skirting bluff, the house of John 



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Kit' - the original vine] Daniel Mererod), 



Francis Dufour still stands, in good repair (Fi<j. 0). 

 The original house, which he buill in 1809, was made 

 of logs, ami has perished, bul the presenl structure 

 was buill in the very earl} days. A grandson of 

 John Francis Dufour, ami himself a gray-haired 

 man, i- now a prominenl figure in Vevay. 



