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experiment, however, it would it be like tossing up a
coin and crying head or tail.
"One set of cellars in Reims much resembles
another. There is, however,something peculiarly cap
tivating to the imagination in the larger and loftier
vaults of the great House of Pommery. Here the eye
is appealed to much more than in the galleries of
Messrs. Heidsieck. There is no electric lighting, but
the daylight descends in places down huge yawning
shafts pierced in the chalk. The Romans are said to
have begun these useful excavations in Reims, and
Messrs.Pommery and Greno have much improved upon
their freehold of old Rome's labors. The number of
bottles here may be two or three times as many as in
Heidsieck's cellars. It is impossible to give an exact
account. There are miles ofthem,with from 12,000,000
to 15,000,000 bottles by the wayside, and between 500
to 600 men and women to attend to them.
"Bearing in mind the vastness of the supply, it
does not seem that the champagne makers of Reims
act with imprudent generosity in oftering as they do
bottle after bottle of their choicest wine to their casual
visitors. It is,however,an act of very precious courtesy.
Thus, having in the morning drunk a bottle and a half
of Dry Monopole,I was privleged in the afternoon to