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 of agriculture, and its importance in the rural economy of countries where it is most generally and extensively established;—in the second place, on the probability that the climate of New South Wales, and many of its soils; at present useless from their sterlity, would be favourable for the culture of the vine;—and in the third place, on its being a culture, for the products of which, an extensive market might be found.

In visiting, and attentively observing, some of the most celebrated wine districts in the south of France, the compiler of the following work found every soil, which by its nature or situation was favourable for the cultivation of the vine, exclusively devoted to that purpose; and to many of these it had given a value which made him doubt very strongly of the information he received, though from most respectable sources, till he had an opportunity of confirming its correctness, by the corresponding notes of that acute and accurate observer, Mr. Arthur Young, and by the later work of the Count de Chaptal.

In the neighbourhood of Cadillac, a small town on the right bank of the Garonne, where the compiler for some time resided, a vineyard was for sale, which had been for many years in a state of decay, from the sons of the former proprietor having been in the army at the time of his death, and shewing, on their return home little industry, or