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inze the Dusty Miller and the small Black Cluster, both 

 commonly trained on walls of houses in England. Banks 

 sloping to the south or the west, seem commonly preferred 

 for the vine-plantations. The plants or stools are placed 

 pretty close to each other, in rows : but the rows are wide, 

 allowing plenty of space for the vignerons to pass along in 

 dressing the plants : very commonly a line of haricots, peas, 

 or other legumes, appears between each row of vines. The 

 vine-plants are permitted to rise only between three and 

 four feet high ; so that a vineyard, in the North of France, 

 does not make a much better appearance than a field of 

 drilled beans in England, and is certainly very inferior in 

 effect to a hop-plantation in Kent. 



As we approached St Denis, the vine-plantations in- 

 creased in number and in size, extensive hillocks being now 

 covered with them. Very little fruit appeared ; and we 

 learned that the scantiness of the crop was universally com- 

 plained of, the blossom having, this year, been injured by 

 cold winds, and long continued rains. 



Paris. 



Sept. 1 7. — We took up our abode at the Hotel de Bos- 

 ton, Rue Vivienne, near the centre of the French capital, 

 where we found ourselves pretty comfortable. Having 

 hired a fiacre by the hour (40 sous for the first, and 30 for 

 each subsequent hour), we procured our letters at the 

 poste restantc of the General Post-office in Rue Jean-Jac- 

 ques Rousseau, and made calls at the houses of some 

 friends of Mr Hay, who had settled in Paris. — In the course 

 of the day we went to the hotel of the British Embassy in 

 Rue Fauxbourg St Honore, when Mr Macdonald deliver- 



