FRANCE. it 



to his ploughing fo light a foil fo often for 

 arable crops. It would have been more pru- 

 dent to have fown clover, which is very 

 well known in this country, which, flay- 

 ing fome years on the land, would have 

 given it the due repofe; a point of morecon- 

 fequence to fo light a foil than moft others. 

 This induftrious peafant had the offer of a 

 pecuniary reward, inftead of the gold medal 

 of the Society ; but he preferred the latter, 

 hearing it was much valued by the gentry. 

 An inftance of the love of honour in the in- 

 ferior clafs of people, which deferves no- 

 tice. 



I converfed with M. de Roche upon the 

 political oeconomy of Lorain fince the death 

 of King Staniflaus ; but not with that fatif- 

 faction I could have wimed ; there was fo 

 much of the Frenchman in his accounts, 

 that what he faid required good allowance. 

 J had formerly, on other occafions, found 

 the propenfity to exaggeration amazingly 

 greater in France than in any other coun- 

 try, which made me cautious on my enter- 

 ing the country a fecond time. He aflured 

 me, that Lorain, in general, was in the mod 

 flourishing fituation imaginable j that the 



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