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plough. At this I was much furprifed, riot 

 comprehending how a plough, performing 

 double work, could have fuch an effecT: : 

 upon which they faid, it was not the per- 

 formance of double quantity, but double 

 depth, that did it : for, firft, one of the {hears 

 turned a furrow of about four inches, which 

 was immediately followed by another that 

 buried the former ten inches deep, upon 

 which they directly harrowed in the feed, 

 of whatever kind. By means of all this 

 deep tillage, all weeds were thoroughly bu- 

 ried, fo that they could not fprout again - f 

 and by this means every year it was able to 

 produce corn, without its being fuller of 

 weeds than other lands. The foil, how- 

 ever, is favourable to any management; for 

 it is a prodigious fine, rich, deep, friable, dry 

 loam, that feems formed for producing any 

 thing. At Pourcy, in this journey, I pafled 

 fome woods, which are totally applied 

 to fupplying the vineyards with poles for 

 props : there is, in that and a neighbouring 

 parifh, fome hundred acres of wood, but, 

 to my furprize, not inclofed ; which, how- 

 ever, is not of bad confequence, from the 

 univerfal cuftom of cattle never going wids 

 I 4 without 



