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TOKAY. 261 u ara XI. 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: x 2 are
