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price of the meadow land Is much more confider* 

 able than that of the arable. In mod parts of this 

 country,* the proportion is nearly ten to one; and 

 there are even fome arpents of meadow, for one 

 of which they would give thirty of field lands, and 

 fome of vines for which an hundred of arable land 

 would be given. 



Thofc diftrids, where the foil will produce no- 

 thing but corn, are poor; but in thofe which fur- 

 ni(h fodder, and alfo fine crops of grain, the inha- 

 bitants are wealthy and happy, unlefs they arc 

 oppreflcd by taxes. 



There are many inftances of this kind in this 

 country, which Monf. Ljnguet has not given 

 himfelf time enough to confider with proper atten- 

 tion; and furcly, it is mod probably fo in other 

 countries. Flanders, Brabant, fome parts of Ger- 

 many and Poland, Milan, and England, which fur- 

 nifh great quantities of grain, are countries abound- 

 ing alfo with all the necedaries of life, enriched by 

 the money which the exports of their corn bring in 

 return. If there are many poor in them, it is not 

 their raifing corn that occafions it; but the unequal 

 diftribution of it. Whatever commodity a country 



• Switzerland. 



produces. 



