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nefs of the country, that this muA be a very 

 tad way ; I think hand-barrows, even car- 

 ried between two men on poles, like a fe- 

 dan chair, would be a great faving, fuppo- 

 fing wheels muft not go into the intervals. 

 Such a barrow would carry two bufhels of 

 dung with cafe, whereas the bafkets thefe 

 people carry their dung in do not hold half 

 a bufhel $ fp this would be at once a faving 

 of half. I enquired at Mailly into the profit 

 made by an acre of vines, aqd was allured, 

 that there was one large vineyard of thirty 

 acres, which, in good years, never paid 

 Jefs clear profit than 7!. an acre : but this, 

 I found, was an extraordinary cafe. In gene- 

 ral, they reckon four pounds an acre a very 

 good profit. In order to gain this, the grofs 

 produce muft be full 30!. and fome unfa- 

 vourable years it muft be 40!. and more, 

 in order for the proprietor to put 5!. in his 

 own pocket. One man I converfed with 

 upon this point, happened accidentally to 

 be in company with a corn-farmer ; and, 

 upon his triumphing much in the great pro- 

 fit of a vineyard, the other feemed to doubt 

 ft. Upon which I repeated my queftions 

 fo them both, and the corn-farmer faid, 



True, 



