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weaver would, in one day, do more Work 

 than three of the beft hands in Verdun. A 

 circumftance I thought remarkable. 



The 23d, I reached Clermont. The di- 

 ftance about twenty miles, through a coun- 

 try tolerably rich, and in general cultivated, 

 but all lying under the difadvantage of one 

 third of the whole being fallow every year. 

 In a few inclofures near the village of Nifler- 

 villc, I remarked fome turneps, and alfo 

 clover, that had been fown in the Spring, 

 among the barley. I had not remarked 

 this, lince I had been in Lorain ; and no- 

 thing can be more finking than the fupe- 

 rior merit of their management, in the few 

 inclofures they have, over that of the com- 

 mon fields, which very ftrongly proves the 

 excellent effects that would flow from their 

 multiplication ; and all the peafants I had 

 converfed with were much in favour of 

 them. 



The next day, the 24th, I fet forward in 

 my way to Chalons, by the way of S. 

 Menchoud, in Champagne, through a coun- 

 try inferior to what I had gone through be- 

 fore. I pafled feveral vineyards, but none 

 that produced the famous wine of the pro- 

 E 2 vincc. 



