168 TRAVELS THROUGH 



C H A P." VI. 



"From Paris to Chartres Agriculture Or^ 

 leans Stock and Conduct of a French 

 Farm Effects of the French Government 

 on the Country Agriculture of the Pro- 

 vince of Nivernois Uncommon Improve- 

 ment by Means of Potatoes and Lucern 

 Drill Hujbandry Account of : Beaujelols 

 Curious Anecdote on the French Taxes. 



I LEFT Paris the f3th of March, taking 

 leave of my friends there, with ge- 

 nuine expreffions of the regret I felt at 

 parting with men from whom I had received 

 every intercourfe of friendmip and polite- 

 nefs. I took the road to Chartres, the di- 

 ftance of which is about forty miles Englifh. 

 The firfl part of the journey, through the 

 lile of France, is a country poor, and much 

 of it uncultivated : but Beauce is better, 

 the foil moiil and fertile, and very little of 



