CHAP. I. 



Agriculture Produces Improvement t bf 



Wafles Society of Agriculture at Metz 

 Exertions State of Lorain Manufac- 

 tures Decline Prefent State Obferva- 

 tions To Moyenare Country Beggars 

 Hujban dry Miferable Pro/Juffs Prices 

 of Labour Eynville Culture of Lucerne 



Luneville -Academy Great Cbeafnefs 



of Living. 



I ENTERED Lorain the lothofOcto- 

 ber 1770, at Sar Louis, in my way to 

 Metz, taking the road of Boulay. The 

 country is fine, but not well cultivated ; ths 

 feafon would not allow me to make the ob- 

 fervations I wifhed upon their corn culture, 

 yet did the ftubble feem to indicate pretty 

 good crops. Inclofures there are none, ex- 

 cept a Few about the villages, and fome of 

 them were filled with turneps > the crops of 

 which were fofmall, that I was alittlefurprifed 

 on what their cattle could fubfift in winter. 

 VOL. IV. B Stopping 



