COTE-D'OR. This department of France is famous for its wines. The favoured district is divided into two parts—the Me-de-Nulls, extending from Dijon to Nuits; and the Cate Beaunoise, from Nuits to the Dheune. The former is famous for its red wines, the most renowned of which are those called Bomanee, Vougeot, Chambertin, Eichebourg, and Nuits; while the latter produces both red and white wines, which for flavour, delicacy, and perfume, are not surpassed in the world ; but they do not bear transport so well as those grown on the Nuitonne slope. Among the red wines of the Beaune slope, the most famous are those called Volnay, Pomard, Beaune, La Peyrieure ; and among the white, Meursault, Montrachet, and Goutte-d'Or. Besides these famous Bur gundy wines, a good deal of wine resembling Champagne is manufactured in the depart ment, and sold as such. The annual produce of all the vineyards of the department amounts to about 12,000,000 gallons.
The department ranks the first in France with respect to the extent of its forests, in which oak, beech, and elm are the principal trees.
Iron, coal, marble, millstones, limestone, plaster of Paris, potter's clay, &c. are found. The iron mines, which lie chiefly in the mountains in the north-east of the department, are amongst the most productive in France ; the ore is converted into malleable iron and steel at nearly 100 blast furnaces and foundries by means of charcoal near the mine-mouth. There are about 300 factories of various kinds in the department, the products being linen, woollen cloth, blankets, cotton and woollen yarn, beet-root sugar, brandy, vinegar, paper, seed.oil, beer, leather, and earthenware. The commerce of the department consists in the agricultural and industrial products already named, and in wool, hides, timber, oak staves, hay, fuel-wood, nails, and whetstones.