46 TRAVELS THROUGH! 



CHAP. II. 



journey to Nancy Verdun Agriculture* 

 Manufactures Chrmont Farming En- 

 ter Champagne Vajl Heaths Great Im- 

 provements wrought by a French Farmer 

 on the Wajles Excellent Management 

 'Refections. 



LEAVING Lunneville the 2oth, I 

 went to Nancy, heretofore the capi- 

 tal of Loraine, and, for above fix hundred 

 years, the refidence of her Dukes. It is a 

 poor deferred town, which would be defo- 

 late, in comparifon of what it once was, if it 

 was not for a woollen manufactory which has 

 been eftablifhed here on the ruins of fome 

 others in this Duchy. It flands in a plain, 

 which is remarkably rich and fertile. Near 

 the town I remarked many inclofures, and 

 thofe that were not occupied as gardens, 

 were generally lucern fields ; which, from 

 the accounts the peafants gave me, they find 

 to be the moil profitable branch of their 



agriculture. 



