370 Account op the city hieres, 



lions with new brine. This does not diffolve what is 

 there already, neither is it fo thinned by the rain as to 

 be at all diflfolved itfelf. 



The fait is now carried from the heaps into the ma- 

 gazine. This is a very long building furrounded with 

 ftrong walls, like a quadrangular fort, and ftands clofe 

 by the fea. From hence it is put on board of Ihip, 

 and tranfported for confumption. 



Here are made annually from 90 to 100,000 minats 

 of fait. The minat contains exactly a hundred weight. 

 The king, or rather the farmers-general^ pay the pro- 

 prietor of this work 5 fous for each minat. For which 

 he muft deliver the fait on board of fliip, and take the 

 charge of carrying, on this expenfive undertaking upon 

 himfelf. The expences, or yearly diflburfements, 

 amount to 14,000 livres ; confequently, there remains 

 to the proprietor no more than 1000 livres annually 

 net revenue from this fine eftablilhment. The farmers- 

 general fell for a louis-d'or what coffe them five fous.' 

 Perhaps fome reader of this paper may aik, whether 

 the forefathers of the prefent owner, who planned the 

 work, would have taken the pains to execute it, if 

 they could have forefeen that their defcendants would 

 be permitted to take only the hundreth part of its pro~ 

 duce. 



An officer lives at the magazine, who has a few men 

 under him, for keeping a Uriel: eye upon the works. 



Concerning the mountains which furround the plain 

 at Hieres, I have yet a few remarks to make. Thofe 

 on the north fide confift of a fmooth flare, grey with 

 fomcwhat of a reddifh call, which feels fomewhat 

 greafy, and will not endure the open air. The earth, 



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