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vince. Thefe do not yield more than to 

 the amount of about 3!. or 4!. an acre. The 

 corn, in this tradl, they told me, was fel- 

 dom good, and I could believe them, from 

 the general appearance of the culture, which 

 was bad. I remarked many fields fown 

 with wheat, which was come up, and 

 green, but part of the lands into which the 

 foil was ploughed, where it is fliff, were 

 under water, for want of drains to carry it 

 off. I remarked this to fome farmers I faw, 

 and they told me, that, to carry that water 

 off, a deep drain muft be cut to a low place 

 at fome diflance, to which they pointed ; 

 and, though they allowed that fuch a drain 

 would at once take off this water from the 

 furrows of above one hundred and forty acres 

 under wheat, yet the expence they thought 

 too great, and fuch as they could not afford, 

 even if the feveral farmers would join in. 

 it, whofe lands would be benefited. A 

 point not very clear. 



From Menchoud, the neareft road to 

 Chalons, lies a great barren heath, the dif- 

 tance more than thirty miles. I could have 

 paffed by a more agreeable way ; but rather 

 chofe to fee the nature of a country, which 



was 



