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have been long fettled here for the purpofe of carry- 
ing on the wine trade. Daring the two laft cen- 
turies, this country being almoft the confhnt theatre 
of war, there was a citadel near the town, but now 
there is not the frnalleft veftige of it remaining. 
The hills on which the wine grows lie all to the 
weft of the river Bodrog, and beginning clofe by 
the town of Tokay, extend weftward and northward 
from thence, and occupy a fpace of perhaps ten 
Englifh miles fquare ; but they are interrupted and 
interfperfed with a great many extenfive plains, and 
feveral villages, fuch as Talia, Mada, Tarczal, Szom- 
bor, Benye, and Tolefwa. Near fome of thefe, par- 
ticularly Talia and Tarczal, the wine is better than 
what grows on the hill of Tokay, but it all goes un- 
der the fame general name. 
The vineyards extend beyond the 48th degree of Latitude, 
northern latitude. 
The foil, on all the hills where the wine grows, Soil, 
is a yellow clayifh earth, extremely deep, and there 
are interfperfed through it large loofe ftones, which, 
as I was told, are limeftone 3 but I had not an op- 
portunity of examining them. 
As the hills do not run in a regular chain, but are Expofure. 
fcattered among tine intervening plains, you meet 
with all kinds of expofures upon them, and there is 
wine on them all, except perhaps where they are 
turned diredly towards the fouth. Yet the general 
rule is, that the expofures moft inclining to the 
fouth, the fteepeft declivities, and the higheft part 
of thofe declivities, produce the beft wine. Thefe 
circumftances (hew the advantage of choofing your 
W'ine on the ground. The late Mr. Wortley Mon- 
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