12 TRAVELS THROUGH 



Between Wip-pach and Meftre, where I embarked 

 for Venice, I paffed through fertile plains, richly 

 planted with vine, fig, and mulberry-trees, maize, 

 and feveral other plants of wanner climates. In 

 proportion as they were unufual, they feemed the 

 more charming to me. The famenefs of their 

 afpect, fo difagreeable in other flat countries, was 

 not at all tirefome, fmce every fpot of ground 

 was tilled to a triple harveft, being planted with 

 wheat, or maize, and with mulberry and Lom- 

 bardy poplar-trees, in regular rows, to fupport 

 the grapes and their pidturefque feftoons, cluf- 

 tering from tree to tree. Italy will certainly pre- 

 fent many more profpefts of that kind; and I 

 fhould enjoy them better in your company. 



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