n6 TRAVELS THROUGH 



to the moment of exportation, were not fb 

 highly taxed, certainly the profit by the 

 vine-culture would be very coniiderable. 



But we are not to fuppofe that all this 

 country, or one half of it, is covered with 

 vineyards. From St. Thiery, quite to 

 Fifmes, and another way, to ChafHllon, 

 ranks among the finefl for wines, yef is it 

 a corn country ; the whole is open, and 

 generally thrown into the method of fallow- 

 ing for rye and wheat, and then taking 

 barley or oats, after which they fallow 

 again. The product of wheat is about two 

 quarters an acre, of rye two and an half, of 

 barley two and an half, and of oats three. 

 Theyp lough all with oxen, four in a plough, 

 which find their fupport a part of the year 

 on the fallows, and the reft of it on fain- 

 foine and ftraw : four are ufed in a plough, 

 and they reckon an acre a great day's work. 

 I obferved them at St. Thiery giving the 

 laft ploughing for wheat, and fowing that 

 grain, and I thought they executed their 

 work in a very neat manner, yet the plough 

 did not feem a good or handy one. 



I left St. Thiery early in the morning of 

 the 29th ; and> that I might not repafs a 



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