From Hieres to Cuers, Pignans, Luc, is mostly a plain, with mountains on each hand at a mile or two distance.  The soil is generally reddish, and the latter part very red and good.  The growth is olives, figs, vines, mulberries, corn, clover, and lucerne.  The olive trees are from three to four feet in diameter.  There are hedges of pomegranates, sweet-briar, and broom.  A great deal of thyme growing wild.  There are some enclosures of stone; some sheep and goats.

April 9.  From Luc to Vidavban, Muy, Frejus, the road leads through vallies, and crosses occasionally the mountains which separate them.  The vallies are tolerably good, always red and stony, gravelly or gritty.  Their produce as before.  The mountains are barren.

Lesterelle, Napoule.  Eighteen miles of ascent and descent of a very high mountain.  Its growth, where capable of any, two-leaved pine, very small, and some chene vert.

Antibes, Nice.  From Napoule the road is generally near the sea, passing over little hills or strings of vallies, the soil stony, and much below mediocrity in its quality.  Here and there is a good plain.

There is snow on the high mountains.  The first frogs I have heard are of this day (the 9th).  At Antibes are oranges in the open ground, but in small enclosures; palm trees also.  From thence to the Var are the largest fig trees and olive trees I have seen.  The fig trees are eighteen inches in diameter, and six feet stem; the olives sometimes six feet in diameter, and as large heads as the largest low-ground apple trees.  This tree was but a shrub where I first fell in with it, and has become larger and larger to this place.  The people are mostly in villages.  The several provinces, and even cantons, are distinguished by the form of the women’s hats, so that one may know of what canton a woman is by her hat.

Nice.  The pine-bur is used here for kindling fires.  The people are in separate establishments.  With respect to the orange, there seems to be no climate on this side of the Alps sufficiently mild in itself to preserve it without shelter.  At Olioules they are between two high mountains; at Hieres covered on the north by a very high mountain; at Antibes and Nice covered by mountains, and also within small, high enclosures. Quaere.  To trace the true line from east to west, which forms the northern and natural limit of that fruit?  Saw an elder tree (sambucus) near Nice, fifteen inches in diameter, and eight feet stem.  The wine made in this neighborhood is good, though not of the first quality.  There are one thousand mules, loaded with merchandise, which pass every week between Nice and Turin, counting those coming as well as going.