2 TRAVELS THROUGH 

 Stopping at Dreynborn, I made fome en- 

 quiries after their modes of culture, and 

 found that their greateft attention was given 

 to corn, which they threw into the method 

 of preparing by a Summer's fallow for wheat; 

 and after wheat they fow Bled de Mars, 

 that is, barley, generally, but fometimes 

 peafe and oats : they were not intelligent 

 enough to give me a good idea of their pro- 

 duds per acre. As to cattle, they have 

 very few, and make no complaints for want 

 of more ; which is, I think, every where a 

 mark of bad management. There is much 

 forefb land on both fides the road, yet it is 

 not a tenth flocked with meep, oxen, cows, 

 or horfes. Their culture and carriage is ge- 

 nerally performed with oxen, the breed of 

 which feem but indifferent. I obferved 

 fome lands ploughing and fowing to wheat; 

 and on fome fandy tracts they were cultivat- 

 ing rye j the draft of the ploughs was every 

 where four oxen. Upon enquiry among 

 the peafants, I did not find any great com- 

 plaint of taxes -, the reafon of which I could 

 not conjecture, for I had been informed 

 the fubfidies in Lorain were very heavy; 

 unlefs it is owing to the jufticc or huma- 

 nity 



