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270 TOKAY. and who think their territory an earthly paradife, and 'their govern_ment’a model of perfeétion ; yes, and happy is the pair who find in each other every charm and-every virtue ; and the parents who fee in their children every juvenile merit ; and the children who look up to their parents as their guardian angels. Without thefe infinétive attachments, patriotifin, connubial love, parental kindnefs, and filial äffe&ion, would hang by a very flender thread, and the fmalleft breath of jarring interefts would overturn public and private feliéity: and fo Lam glad-when I fee the Hollander look four:when he hears his country curfed as a foggy bog, fit only to ferve as. a peat-môf for the reft of Europe ; and I have often at Auld Reeky heard with pleafure the North Briton greet his friend with :—* Weel, Donald, is na this a re cauld rainy morning ?’—“ Indeed is it, ‘Sandy, a fine cauld-rainy morning.” “Though all Tokay ‘wine does not grow.at Tokay, yetvall the fas -gourable fituations about this town are covered with vines. ‘The {oil is remarkably fine and light, juft like Tripoli : it is quite a.powder, of a light brown colour, and makes a. confiderable eflervefcence with ae: it has nething of.the nature of fand, nor-is it.at all mixed with gravel or ftones; only now.and then a few loofe pieces of Porphyry are found amongft it. It is very.deep : where ravines have been formed by the rains it may be -feen that it is feveral yards thick., ‘owards the top of the hill, immediately above the ‘sown, it is more rocky, and there probably. it is.not fo deep, I was a m 18
