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but the barley ftubbles had a bad appear- 

 ance. The people were every where full of 

 complaints of the badnefs of their crops, and 

 they allured me the wheat was little better 

 than the barley; nor had they feen a good 

 crop for fome years. They faid, if the fea- 

 fons continued fo, they muft die ; for no- 

 body could have any thing to eat. I afked 

 them, if the price was not proportioned to 

 the badnefs of the crop ; they replied, not 

 by any means : and that the poor peafants 

 grew every year poorer and poorer; nor 

 could they afford to cultivate their lands to 

 any purpofe. Here are fome horfe-ploughs, 

 but the horfes were not of an appearance 

 that agreed with the richnefs of much of the 

 country. Some of the farms here amounted 

 to five hundred acres, yet were the occu- 

 piers in bad circumftances -, and the little 

 towns I patted through, poor, and fome of 

 them almoft uninhabited. I coafted the 

 little river Nid for fome time, and near 

 Brulauge there are fome fine rich meadows. 

 All this is a fine rich country, which, under 

 a favourable government, with circumftances 

 favourable to hulbandry, would be very 



wealthy : 



