long, and one fourth of a league broad.  The soil is reddish and stony, often as much stone as soil.  On the left, it is a plain, on the right hills.  There are made about one thousand pieces (of two hundred and fifty bottles each) annually, of which six hundred are of the first quality, made on the coteaux.  Of these, Madame Soubeinan makes two hundred, Monsieur Reboulle ninety, Monsieur Lambert, medecin de la faculte de Montpelier, sixty, Monsieur Thomas, notaire, fifty, Monsieur Argilliers fifty, Monsieur Audibert forty; equal to four hundred and ninety; and there are some small proprietors who make small quantities.  The first quality is sold, brut, for one hundred and twenty livres the piece; but it is then thick, and must have a winter and the fouet, to render it potable and brilliant.  The fouet is like a chocolate-mill, the handle of iron, the brush of stiff hair.  In bottles, this wine costs twenty-four sous, the bottle, &c. included.  It is potable the April after it is made, is best that year, and after ten years begins to have a pitchy taste, resembling it to Malaga.  It is not permitted to ferment more than half a day, because it would not be so liquorish.  The best color, and its natural one, is the amber.  By force of whipping, it is made white, but loses flavor.  There are but two or three pieces a year of red Muscat made; there being but one vineyard of the red grape, which belongs to a baker called Pascal.  This sells in bottles at thirty sous, the bottle included.  Rondelle, negociant en vin, Porte St. Bernard, fauxbourg St. Germain, Paris, buys three hundred pieces of the first quality every year.  The coteaux yield about half a piece to the setterie, the plains a whole piece.  The inferior quality is not at all esteemed.  It is bought by the merchants of Cette, as is also the wine of Beziers, and sold by them for Frontignan of the first quality.  They sell thirty thousand pieces a year under that name.  The town of Frontignan marks its casks with a hot iron:  an individual of that place, having two casks emptied, was offered forty livres for the empty cask by a merchant of Cette.  The town of Frontignan contains about two thousand inhabitants; it is almost on the level of the ocean.  Transportation to Paris is fifteen livres the quintal, and takes fifteen days.  The price of packages is about eight livres eight sous the one hundred bottles.  A setterie of good vineyard sells for from three hundred and fifty to five hundred livres, and rents for fifty livres.  A laboring man hires at one hundred and fifty livres the year, and is fed and lodged; a woman at half as much.  Wheat sells at ten livres the settier, which weighs one hundred pounds, poids de table.  They make some Indian corn here, which is eaten by the poor.  The olives do not extend northward of this into the country above twelve or fifteen leagues.  In general, the olive country in Languedoc is about fifteen leagues broad.  More of the waste lands between Frontignan and Mirval are capable of culture; but it is a marshy country, very subject to fever and ague, and generally unhealthy.  Thence arises, as is said, a want of hands.