less, and worse, and must be renewed.  They give three or four workings in the year, each worth seventy or seventy-five livres the journal, which is of eight hundred and forty square ioises, and contains about three thousand plants.  They dung a little in Medoc and Grave, because of the poverty of the soil; but very little; as more would affect the wine.  The journal yields, communions annis, about three pieces (of two hundred and forty, or two hundred and fifty bottles each).  The vineyards of first quality are all worked by their proprietors.  Those of the second, rent for three hundred livres the journal:  those of third, at two hundred livres.  They employ a kind of overseer at four or five hundred livres the year, finding him lodging and drink:  but he feeds himself.  He superintends and directs, though he is expected to work but little.  If the proprietor has a garden, the overseer tends that.  They never hire laborers by the year.  The day wages for a man are thirty sous, a woman’s fifteen sous, feeding themselves.  The women make the bundles of sarment, weed, pull off the snails, tie the vines, and gather the grapes.  During the vintage they are paid high, and fed well.

Of Red wines, there are four vineyards of the first quality; viz. 1. Chateau Margau, belonging to the Marquis d’Agincourt, who makes about one hundred and fifty tons, of one thousand bottles each.  He has engaged to Jernon, a merchant. 2. La Tour de Segur, en Saint Lambert, belonging to Monsieur Miresmenil, who makes one hundred and twenty-five tons. 3. Hautbrion, belonging two-thirds to M. le Comte de Femelle, who has engaged to Barton, a merchant:  the other third to the Comte de Toulouse, at Toulouse.  The whole is seventy-five tons. 4. Chateau de la Fite, belonging to the President Pichard, at Bordeaux, who makes one hundred and seventy-five tons.  The wines of the three first, are not in perfection till four years old:  those of de la Fite, being somewhat lighter, are good at three years; that is, the crop of 1786 is good in the spring of 1789.  These growths, of the year 1783, sell now at two thousand livres the ton; those of 1784, on account of the superior quality of that vintage, sell at twenty-four hundred livres; those of 1785, at eighteen hundred livres; those of 1786, at eighteen hundred livres, though they had sold at first for only fifteen hundred livres.  Red wines of the second quality, are Rozan, Dabbadie or Lionville, la Rose, Qui-rouen, Durfort; in all eight hundred tons, which sell at one thousand livres, new.  The third class, are Galons, Mouton, Gassie, Arboete, Pontette, de Ferme, Candale; in all two thousand tons, at eight or nine hundred livres.  After these, they are reckoned common wines, and sell from five hundred livres, down to one hundred and twenty livres, the ton.  All red wines decline after a certain age, losing color, flavor, and body.  Those of Bordeaux begin to decline at about seven years old.