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TOKAY. 261
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TOKAY—ITS VINEYARDS AND WINE—SOIL—LITHOLOGY—
AND SALT MAGAZINE... ¬
From the fituation of this town, on a rich foil, and atthe junc-~
tion of two cédé rivers, one would expec to find it great
and opulent: why it is not, I do not know. It is but a little paltry
town, though it has certainly a fine fituation, The inn was fo bad,
that the Director of the Royal Salt Magazine, to whom I had a letter:
of introduction, would not fuffer me to ftay there, but brought me.
to his own houfe, where I remained, and was hofpitably entertained:
during my ftay-here...
Tokay, not unlike a great’part of mankind, derives fame from the.
merits of others. It produces only a fmall part of the excellent,
wine that bears its name; but it has. had the good fortune of giving:
it to a hilly diftri@ extending twenty or thirty miles northward s:
in breadth it is much lefs confiderable. In this tra@ of country lie
Tarczal, Zombor, Made, Ratka, Talya, Szanto, Kerefztur, Kifs-falu,
Benye, Tolcfva, Lifzka, Horvati, Zfadany; Vamos-Uifalu, Olafzi,
Patak, Karoly falva, Trautzon falva and Uihily. Some of thefe towns:
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