44 TRAVELS THROUGH 



tra<fls of wafte foreft-land in Lorain, efpe- 

 cially in the fouthern parts, which, culti- 

 vated, would maintain fo many more people. 

 The want of improvement is as much ow- 

 ing to the want of wealth, as to the govern- 

 ment. But it muft be allowed, that their 

 poverty is partly owing to the ill adminiftra- 

 tion of government. In all abfolute mo- 

 narchies, there muil be great inequality 

 among mankind : the nobility will be im- 

 menfely rich, and the lower clafles in po- 

 verty: and, as the great fpend their wealth 

 in the court and the capital, and fcarce ever 

 fee their eftates, the money that js in the 

 nation gets into a wrong channel : manu- 

 factures of luxury receive great encourage- 

 ment, and the inferior ones, of utility and 

 agriculture, are neglected. Thus, in the 

 midft of wealth, thefe may be poor, which 

 in England cannot be the cafe, from the 

 great diffufion of wealth. 



A gentleman of Lunneville, to whom I 

 was recommended, finding I made many 

 enquiries concerning the country, propofed 

 to carry me into a company that would en- 

 tertain me greatly ; and I confenting, I was 

 much taken in. I got into a circle of 



triflers, 



