i 3 o TRAVELS THROUGH 



from fuch a quantity of land ; a circum- 

 ftance, perhaps, the moft cruel that ever was 

 heard of in any tax out of Morocco. 



From Laguy I took the high road to Pa- 

 ris, through a country much inferior to 

 Champagne in fertility, infomuch, that 

 quite to the gates of Paris corn fields are met 

 with, and thefe not wheat, but rye^ for 

 the foil is fo barren^ that it will not do for 

 gardens and pafture, which are what ufu- 

 ally furrounds other cities of this magni- 

 tude. 



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