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12 matter, and four-fifths of the vineyards of France are planted in soils which would not pay the expense of cultivation in another form.

same climate, culture, and soils of the same nature furnish, frequently, wines of a very different quality. We daily see a hill covered with vines, afford, under different aspects, the most amazing diversity of produce. One would imagine that every variety of climate and soil had concurred in furnishing products, which are the natural fruits of contiguous fields differently exposed.

This difference in product, owing to exposure,