156 TRAVELS THROUGH 

 years longer, have kept moderate. Their 

 export was, 



Jn 1765 Septiers 803,498 



1766 775 



J 7 6 7 



2,433,460 



Upon the (lopping exportation, corn, for 

 a mort time, fell in its price, which gave 

 fatisfaftion to the enemies of the mea- 

 fure, but alarmed many of the people ; for 

 the farmers mewed a backwardnefs in ex- 

 tending their culture, which they had been 

 very far from, while the markets were brifk, 

 from the purchafe of the exported corn. 

 From that time, till the prefent, the crops 

 in France have been, like all the reft of Eu- 

 rope, very bad, and the price at home too 

 high to venture, as they think, on a fecond 

 experiment ; and it is much doubted whe-r 

 ther a fecond will ever be made. 



Relative to other branches of the French 

 commerce, that which firft demands atten- 

 tion, is the fugar-trade of France, which is 

 fuppofed to be fo well recovered of the loffes 

 fuilair.ed in the laft war, as to be now as 

 conliderable as it was in 1756, though fome 



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