are well clothed, but it is Sunday. They have the appearance
of being well fed. The Chateau de Sevigny, near Cussy-les-Forges, is
a charming situation. Between Maison-neuve and Vitteaux the road leads
through an avenue of trees, eight American miles long, in a right line.
It is impossible to paint the ennui of this avenue. On the summits of
the hills, which border the valley in which Vitteaux is, there is a
parapet of rock, twenty, thirty, or forty feet perpendicular, which
crowns the hills. The tops are nearly level, and appear to be covered
with earth. Very singular. Great masses of rock in the hills between La
Chaleure and Pont de Panis, and a conical hill in the approach to the
last place.

_Dijon_. The tavern price of a bottle of the best wine (e. g. of Vaune)
is four livres. The best round potatoes here, I ever saw. They have
begun a canal thirty feet wide, which is to lead into the Saone at
---------. It is fed by springs. They are not allowed to take any water
out of the riviere d'Ouche, which runs through this place, on account of
the mills on that river. They talk of making a canal to the Seine, the
nearest navigable part of which, at present, is fifteen leagues from
hence. They have very light wagons here for the transportation of their
wine. They are long and narrow; the fore-wheels as high as the hind. Two
pieces of wine are drawn by one horse in one of these wagons. The road
in this part of the country is divided into portions of forty or fifty
feet by stones, numbered, which mark the task of the laborers.

March 7 and 8. From _La Baraque_ to _Chagny_. On the left are plains,
which extend to the Saone; on the right the ridge of mountains, called
the Cote. The plains are of a reddish-brown, rich loam, mixed with much
small stone. The Cote has for its basis a solid rock, on which is about
a foot of soil and small stone, in equal quantities, the soil red, and
of middling quality. The plains are in corn; the Cote in vines. The
former have no enclosures, the latter is in small ones, of dry stone
wall. There is a good deal of forest. Some small herds of small cattle
and sheep. Fine mules, which come from Provence, and cost twenty louis.
They break them at two years old, and they last to thirty.

The corn-lands here rent for about fifteen livres the arpent. They are
now planting, pruning, and sticking their vines. When a new vineyard
is made, they plant the vines in gutters about four feet apart. As the
vines