4 TRAVELS THROUGH 

 This appeared to me inconceivable ; I could 

 not conceive how four oxen could be win- 

 tered for fo fmall a fum as 3!. i8s. 9d. but 

 I found they turn them into the foreft to 

 chufe during a part of the feafon, that they 

 may feed on the laft moots of the under- 

 wood. 



From Boulau to Ury, the country is very 

 agreeable ; the river Nid branches through 

 a rich, but not well cultivated, tra<5t. Ury 

 is well fituated, on a fine plain, with a ridge 

 of mountains to the north, and at a fmall 

 diflance a foreft to the fouth. My defign 

 was to reach Metz by night ; but, upon en- 

 quiry after my favourite fubjecl, the land- 

 lord, of the Golden Lion, a very indifferent 

 inn at Ury, informed me, that he was him- 

 felf ignorant of agriculture, but could re- 

 commend a farmer that could give my Ho- 

 nour all the information I could defire : 

 this intelligence determined me to fleep at 

 his inn, bad as it was. The peafant was 

 fent for, and being arrived, he gave me the 

 following account of the hufbandry of the 

 neighbourhood of this town : 



The foil upon the rivers is a moifr, good 

 loam ; at a diflance from them it is ilony, 



yet 



