Dijon.  The tavern price of a bottle of the best wine (e. g. of Vaune) is four livres.  The best round potatoes here, I ever saw.  They have begun a canal thirty feet wide, which is to lead into the Saone at ---------.  It is fed by springs.  They are not allowed to take any water out of the riviere d’Ouche, which runs through this place, on account of the mills on that river.  They talk of making a canal to the Seine, the nearest navigable part of which, at present, is fifteen leagues from hence.  They have very light wagons here for the transportation of their wine.  They are long and narrow; the fore-wheels as high as the hind.  Two pieces of wine are drawn by one horse in one of these wagons.  The road in this part of the country is divided into portions of forty or fifty feet by stones, numbered, which mark the task of the laborers.

March 7 and 8.  From La Baraque to Chagny.  On the left are plains, which extend to the Saone; on the right the ridge of mountains, called the Cote.  The plains are of a reddish-brown, rich loam, mixed with much small stone.  The Cote has for its basis a solid rock, on which is about a foot of soil and small stone, in equal quantities, the soil red, and of middling quality.  The plains are in corn; the Cote in vines.  The former have no enclosures, the latter is in small ones, of dry stone wall.  There is a good deal of forest.  Some small herds of small cattle and sheep.  Fine mules, which come from Provence, and cost twenty louis.  They break them at two years old, and they last to thirty.

The corn-lands here rent for about fifteen livres the arpent.  They are now planting, pruning, and sticking their vines.  When a new vineyard is made, they plant the vines in gutters about four feet apart.  As the vines advance, they lay them down.  They put out new shoots, and fill all the intermediate space, till all trace of order is lost.  They have ultimately about one foot square to each vine.  They begin to yield good profit at five or six years old, and last one hundred, or one hundred and fifty years.  A vigneron at Volnay carried me into his vineyard, which was of about ten arpents.  He told me, that some years it produced him sixty pieces of wine, and some not more than three pieces.  The latter is the most advantageous produce, because the wine is better in quality, and higher in price, in proportion as less is made; and the expenses, at the same time, diminish in the same proportion.  Whereas, when much is made, the expenses are increased, while the quality and price become less.  In very plentiful years, they often give one half the wine for casks to contain the other half.  The cask for two hundred and fifty bottles costs six livres in scarce years, and ten in plentiful.  The feuillette is of one hundred and twenty-five bottles, the piece of two hundred and fifty, and the queue or botte of five hundred.  An arpent rents at from twenty to sixty livres.  A farmer of ten arpents has about