fj^t. TRAVELLIMG MEMORANDUMS. 



TRAVELLING MEMORANCUMS, 

 fCiitumttf/nm ytl. JV. p. 296.^ 



V_/F the common people in this part of France,— the 

 men are generally robull and well limbed, — the women 

 neat, and well dreUed. They are remarkable for what 

 the French call " blen co'iffe" that is, a pretty head 

 drefs ; — but neither of them have the healthy counte- 

 nances and frefh complexions of our couptry people and 

 villagers. You very rarely fee thofc fine creatures we 

 call bonr.y lajps, and bleoming lads. The provifions for 

 living are fufficiently plentiful here, and, in feveral arti- 

 cles, good, — particularly lamb, mutton, pidgeons, 

 hares, partridges, &c. The beef is not good,- — and we 

 are not pleafed with the poultry, unlefs A'C feed them, 

 ourfelves, or brlag them from diilant parts. They have 

 Very few cows, and no proper pafture for them, except 

 on diftant hills ; fo we can have little milk or butter 

 that is tolcrable.-^I had Very good butter of cows milk 

 fent me from Toulon, three times a week, at the rate of 



about two fliillings/>fr pound They might have plenty 



andvariety of excellent filh from the Mediterranean j but 

 their native fifhers are miferably deficient, both in (kill 

 and laduftry. — -Daring every fprlng feafon the Genoefe 

 carry on a profitable and very confiderable trade of fifliing; 

 on this coaft, in the bell manner,-!— and even fupply the 

 French markets : thus thofe republicans, with fuperior 

 enterprife and indullry, excited and fupported by wife 

 encouragements and regulations of the ftate, like the 

 t)utch on our coafts, divert to thcmfelves thofe fources 

 of plenty and wealth which naturally belong to our own 

 people. Men intercfted in the people's profperity, and 

 intelligent in the means to promote it govern republics. 

 Kings and courtiers are chiefly ftudious of their own 

 fecurity, and for tliat they rely on the force of merce- 

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