being lighter, will not keep, and therefore sells for not more
than three hundred livres the queue, which is twelve sous the bottle.
It ripens sooner than they do, and consequently is better for those who
wish to broach at a year old. In like manner of the white wines, and
for the same reason, Monrachet sells for twelve hundred livres the queue
(forty-eight sous the bottle), and Meursault of the best quality, viz.
the _Goutte d'or_, at only one hundred and fifty livres (six sous the
bottle). It is remarkable, that the best of each kind, that is, of
the red and white, is made at the extremities of the line, to wit, at
Chambertin and Monrachet. It is pretended, that the adjoining vineyards
produce the same qualities, but that, belonging to obscure individuals,
they have not obtained a name, and therefore sell as other wines. The
aspect of the Cote is a little south of east. The western side is also
covered with vines, and is apparently of the same soil; yet the wines
are only of the coarsest kinds. Such, too, are those which are produced
in the plains; but there the soil is richer, and less strong. Vougeau
is the property of the monks of Citeaux, and produces about two hundred
pieces. Monrachet contains about fifty arpents, and produces, one year
with another, about one hundred and twenty pieces. It belongs to
two proprietors only, Monsieur de Clarmont, who leases to some
wine-merchants, and the Marquis de Sarsnet, of Dijon, whose part is
farmed to a Monsieur de la Tour, whose family, for many generations,
have had the farm. The best wines are carried to Paris by land. The
transportation costs thirty-six livres the piece. The more indifferent
go by water. Bottles cost four and a half sous each.

March 9. _Chalons. Sennecey. Tournus. St. Albin. Macon._ On the left are
the fine plains of the Saone; on the right high lands, rather waving
than hilly, sometimes sloping gently to the plains, sometimes dropping
down in precipices, and occasionally broken into beautiful vallies[sp.]
by the streams which run into the Saone. The plains are a dark rich
loam, in pasture and corn; the heights more or less red or reddish,
always gritty, of middling quality only, their sides in vines, and their
summits in corn. The vineyards are enclosed with dry stone-walls, and
there are some quick-hedges in the corn-grounds. The cattle are few and
indifferent. There are some good oxen, however. They draw by the head.
Few sheep, and small. A good deal