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Show Vi Vi Bellona, becaufe its Inhabitants were always train’d up in Military Difcipline; and afterwards in Latin, was nam’d Belloua ; and fince 1 Wars which have ravag’d this Country, have not left any Monuments of this Antiquity fo worthy of Remark, as are to be feen in the precious Remains of that Sort in the Townof Autz continually a pure Air and clear Sky, being equally about an hundred Leagues off from the Mediterranean and the Ocean. 'The Waters are, as one mayfay, in fufpenfe, whenit is about to determine its Courfe: ‘Thereis alfo a great Body of Water in its Neighbourhood the Opinion of {ome Perfons, that this partakes This ‘Town can count fourteen or fifteen oe eee un aes the fourth art are € y din cultivating the Vineyards ; another fourth Part in carelefily exercifing fome Profeffions that they are ignorant of ; and the other half in enjoying the Pleafures of a foft, idle, and delicious Life, ‘The Gout and Sickneffes are banifh’d from thefe Walls. From thefe Hills, that produce fuch exquifite Wines, iffue out Fountains of Ice, and little Rivers as clear as melted Cryftal. Thefe Watersiffue out from the Earth in a Line oppofite to the Perpendicular, bubbling up, and pufhing out of the Barth on high Globes of Rock-Cryftal, Middle of the Town, is four times as big as which keep their {pherical Figuretill they are == with the Antiquities which I have view'd during the long R« nce which I made there. The fineft Piece of Antiquity that is to be feen there, isan Amphitheatre ofa vaft Extent, the Traces Footfteps of which, although worn by Time, are yet remaining in a Semicircle, and do extend a full third Part of a Mile in Length; there are to be feen the Caverns, where the Lions, Tygers, and other fierce Beafts were fhut up: And there are ftill Parts of the antient Walls remaining, which fhewthat/the Circumference of this Town was fix or feven Miles; the Place, whichis in the : the Square of St. fames’s, where the Troops at the Superficies. The Purity and Lightnefs of thefe Waters are exercis'd in Arms, and whichis call’d the Field of Mars: The Tomb of Divitiacus, are the Caufe that they here eat the lighteft and which is of a round Form, comes out of the beft Bread in France. The Cattel are not fo large nor fat as thofe of England, but they '[’he Gamether is moft delicious ; but above all, thofe who in growing narower towards the Top, appears have a more delicious Tafte. as if broken. ‘This Mafs, which has neither going in or out, iselevated ona rifing Ground, habit the Hill, where grow Zhyme an in the wornout by Time, and appears like a Block ; joram, and in fome Places Braom : the Sand, the Lime, and the Stones are be- Month of September, little Bird, bigger than come all the fame by the Rains and the Air a Linnet, and {maller than a Lark, comes to which have calcin’d them: This Pyramid has furnifh the Inhabitants of thee Hills with the moft dainty Difh which can come toa King’s fubfifted above two thoufand Years, There remain of this antient City two Table: This is the /beatear, which comes out Gates, which have held out obftinately againft of the Wood, when the Grapes are ripe; they Time that confumes all that Mortals would get among the Vineyards, and fatten themfelves eternize: The one, rais’d upon four mafly with the Grapes, which they pick with their Piles, incircled with bafs Reliefsand Hiero- fharp-pointed Bills, from which theyfuck the glyphicks, forms three Centers crown’d in one Juice, and with which they make themfelves Range of Architecture of fluted Stones, which downright drunk, This Bird comes into the are all of an extraordinary Height, in which Vineyards {mall and lean, ang in a little time no Joints nor Cement can be perceiv’d. There grows fat to the very Extremity of its of its Hills. It is alfo encompafs’d with a Rampart, flank’d with fome ‘lowers, and five his chief M / Work of Cl nis faid, & for the Poor in that h {mall Digreffion, I would entertain the Reader alfo yet appears one half Part of the Temple of Fanus, the Mount and the Foreft of the Druids, the Mount Foziy or Fupiter's Mount ; and in digging the Earth but neverfolittle, or in ploughing, there are found Urns and Medals. But to return to the Town of Beaune. 'This ‘Town cannot pretend to glory in thefe antient Remains of Antiquity, which the Air confumes, and Time reduces to Duft; it only glories in its good Wines, which every Year brings to the Citizens new Riches: However, it has been within an Age paft a ftrong Place, and is ftill furrounded with a large Ditch which runs into the River Burgoife; this takes its Source at abouthalf a Mile from one rundy his Deat he! the Wine, the only the Name of the Pond of Long Extent. It is Wings, to that Degree, that they cannot fly above cight or ten Paces, byreafon of the Weight of that Bulk which they have ac- quir’d upon the Vine-Branches: So that in order to render them light to fly, they to take the Counfel of Horace, ou makes the Weafel give the lean Fox L entred through a ftrait Hole into a Barn of Corn ; Macra cavum reptes artium quem macra fubifis It is pretended, and I do believe, that this little Bird is the moft delicious Difh in Zu Ihave feen a great many in Bugland, and have alfo kill’d them out of Curiofity but as they have not the fame Liquor andthe fame ed nothing have they that they have in Burgundy, of the fame Tatfte. great Baftions ; the Ditch, which encompaffes Beaune is remarkable for the Magnificence the ‘Town, is above a Mile and anhalf in Circumference ; The Citizens there enjoy almoft of its Hofpital, which was there founded4 and F by Good Du which is {een in all the Charts of France, under And if I might be permitted to make here a of the Waters ofboth Seas. Ground like a fhapelefs Lump, and fuddenly and built lip the This great Plain, which is as the Center of ing inform’d that the Continent, is fo even, that the Sadze.which runs throughit, by its gentle Courfe, deceives the Eyes of thofe who look upon it, it being difficult to difcover which Way its Stream glides ; Cx/ar himfelf was furpriz’d at it, as he declares in Lid. 1. of his Commentaries. ; npted fo great a charity, laugh’d, and ellor had done fo much rime, it was but juft ld lodge them, and feed them after ought to call Burguudy wndy which produce e which one can or Wine, do not extend farther than from Dijon to Chalon upon the Sabu ; yet we ought not to reckon thefe Vineyards to be in Perfection but from Chambertin to Chagni, about twenty-four Miles in Extent: For the Vines at Dijon and Chalon do not enjoy thofe Climates which produce thofe Wines that are fit to be tran{ported into Great-Britain, the Circles of the Empire and the Low Countries, as thofe which are confin’d within the Limits, that I fhall mention as exactly as I can, without being apprehenfive of paffing under any Cenfure upon this Account. The fime Rowof Hills in the fame Situation, and having the fame Afpect of the Sun, extends irfelf almoft as far as Lyons, and all thofe little Mountains are wholly cover’d with Vines ; but the Lands are lefs fine, and lefs light at Chalons ; are heavier at Zoruus, and coarfer at Macon : This alters the Formof the Produ@tions of thefe little Hillocks, which notwithftanding they have the fame Arrange- ment and the fame Situation, produce fo difiquor ittle Vallies are link’d one to the Afpeét of the Sun, and form Bow, and have oppo-~ ma Row of Mountains of the like Figure, but a great deal higher, which appear or feem to join them, although they may be fifteen, twenty, thirty, and fome fixty Leagues off, and forming an oval Figure, contribute to make the fineft Profpect in the World. This Oval muft have more than one hundred and The Saéne is a River that feparates the He= duani and Sequani (i.e. Bourgogne from the Franche Compte) and flows into the Rhone with an incredible Gentlenefs, that one cannot diftinguifh by the Eye which Way its Waters run. This is a vaft Plain, fo fertile and even, that all the Kings of France are wont to affemble their Armies there, when they havea Mind to fhew the Encampment of al] their Troops to the Queensand the Ladies of the Court. Behind the firft Row of Hills that produce fo good Wines, there is nothing to be found but Hills and Vallies: The Hills that are the leaft diftant, are all planted with Vineyards, and thefe Situations are call’d Backward Hills : In the hotteft Years, when the Rains are lefs frequent, the Grapes there make a very good Wine, but it never has the Perfume of the Wines produc’d by the forward Hills. The Plain of this Oval is in part coyer'd with Wines, fertile in all Sorts of Grain, em- bellifh’d with vaft Meadows, where a thoufand Streams play in their different Windings, adorn’d with fine Forefts inhabited with Stags, Wild Boars, and, above all, with Roe-bucks, which are there very delicious, and agreeably furnifh the Gentry with the Divertifements of Hunting. A great Part of thefe Lands are planted with Trees in Form of Orchards, which produce without Culture excellent Fruit, which whenthey have been once grafted, it isenough, the Sun and the Earth do the reft: ‘The Peach-Trees, which throughout fympathize with the Vine, do there make upon the Banks a fair Foreft ; and the Branches of thefe Trees fifty Leagues in Circumference. grows thinly, and the Leaves being narrow, Fromthefe Hills of Beaune all the oppofite Mountains are feen, and they are thofe of they don’t hinder the Sun from darting his Switzerland, the Franche Compte, and Mount Rays on the Grapes to ripen them: The Fura, of which Ce/arfpeaks, at this time call’d Peaches which they produce are of a Figure ‘Mount St. Claude, thofe ofSavoy: Beyond thefe and a Colour that would not anticipate one in isa frightful Void, and of an immenfe Length, their Favour ; neverthelefs, when one has and Mount S¢. B d rifes into the Clouds, tafted of them, it feems to the Palate to be a always cover’d with Snow in the moft violent Fruit made of Wine and Sugar. It ought not to be forgotten, that when the Heats of the Dog-days ; and although it be fixty-five Leagues off from Beaune, it is feen Sunis rifen above the, Mountains of Savoy, diftin@ly without the Help of any Glafs which there is a Profpect of the Hills of Burgundy, fhall bring it nearer to the Spectator’s Eye. This perfeét Oval forms a Plain of the fame Figure, to which thefe Mountains that inviron it, feem to ferve for Walls and Ramparts : This vaft Plain is water’d by the Sade, which Cefar calls Arar ; and by the Dowx, which he calls Alduafdubis in his Commentaries, which has its Source at the Foot of Mount Jura, whereit fhines during the whole Day ; and in fetting behind the Hills of Beaune, darts its Rays uponthe Mountains of the French Conpte, which lie oppofite to it, and there, in going down, ripens very excellent Wines, as thofe of Arbois, which are fo well known throughout a thoufand petty Rivers and Streams, which, after many Turningsand Windings, lofe them- there cultivate their Vineyards, and make their Wines: For altho’ Burgundy, by the Good- Europe for their excellent Qualities. Before I begin to fpeak of the Quality of pafles by Befangon and by Dole, andcafts it- the Wines of Beaune, it will be proper to felf into the Sadne at Verdun: ‘There are alfo give an Account of the Mannerin which they {elves in the Sadne. nefs |
