They make enclosures also, in both those ways.  Day-laborers receive, sixteen or eighteen sous the day, and feed themselves.  Those by the year receive, men three louis, women half that, and are fed.  They rarely eat meat; a single hog, salted, being the year’s stock for a family.  But they have plenty of cheese, eggs, potatoes, and other vegetables, and walnut oil with their salad.  It is a trade here, to gather dung along the road for their vines.  This proves they have few cattle.  I have seen neither hares nor partridges since I left Paris, nor wild fowl on any of the rivers.  The roads from Lyons to St. Rambert are neither paved nor gravelled.  After that, they are coated with broken flint.  The ferry-boats on the Rhone and the Isere, are moved by the stream, and very rapidly.  On each side of the river is a moveable stage, one end of which is on an axle and two wheels, which, according to the tide, can be advanced or withdrawn, so as to apply to the gunwale of the boat.  The Praetorian Palace at Vienne, is forty-four feet wide, of the Corinthian order, four columns in front, and four in flank.  It was begun in the year 400, and finished by Charlemagne.

The sepulchral Pyramid, a little way out of the town, has an order for its basement, the pedestal of which, from point to point of its cap, is twenty-four feet, one inch.  At each angle, is a column, engaged one fourth in the wall.  The circumference of the three fourths disengaged, is four feet four inches; consequently, the diameter is twenty-three inches.  The base of the column indicates it to be Ionic, but the capitals are not formed.  The cornice, too, is a bastard Ionic, without modillions or dentils.  Between the columns, on each side, is an arch of eight feet, four inches, opening with a pilaster on each side of it.  On the top of the basement is a zocle, in the plane of the frieze below.  On that is the pyramid, its base in the plane of the collarins of the pilaster below.  The pyramid is a little truncated on its top.  This monument is inedited.

March 18. Principality of Orange.  The plains on the Rhone here, are two or three leagues wide, reddish, good, in corn, clover, almonds, olives.  No forests.  Here begins the country of olives, there being very few till we enter this principality.  They are the only tree which I see planted among vines.  Thyme grows wild here on the hills.  Asses, very small, sell here for two or three louis.  The high hills in Dauphine are covered with snow.  The remains of the Roman aqueduct are of brick:  a fine piece of Mosaic, still on its bed, forming the floor of a cellar.  Twenty feet of it still visible.  They are taking down the circular wall of the Amphitheatre to pave a road.