FRANCE. 8t 



a higher degree, I think, than in any coun- 

 try in the world. Had I carried a letter to 

 a little farmer in England (fuppofing him 

 able to read it), he would look at my fhoes 

 half an hour before he afked me to go into 

 his hovel, and have a furly referve about 

 him through the whole vifit. But a French- 

 man reads the occafion in a minute, thinks 

 himfelf honoured, has a flow of fpirits in a 

 moment, which you catch, in fpite of your- 

 felf, and are as much delighted with him 

 as he feems to be with you. This circum- 

 flance, I am confident, would make tra- 

 velling very agreeable in France, if people 

 would keep from inns, and frequent the 

 farm-houfes inftead of them ; a practice I 

 am determined to purfue as often as I can, 

 as the only way. 



We walked directly into his vineyard, 

 which was dunging, in trenches dug for 

 that purpofe. This introduced a converfa- 

 tion on that point, in which he explained 

 the modes and principles of dunging vine- 

 yards. The feafon for dunging moft ap- 

 proved here is, directly after the vintage, 

 and to be finished before the winter fets in. 

 It is all carried in on the heads of women 



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