i 7 8 TRAVELS THROUGH 

 the fyfle m of management, the products 

 are tolerable, and fuch, I mould doubt, as 

 would not be regular; yet of thefe the 

 farmer receives only 12!. 175. for his own, 

 profit. How is it poffible that fuch a fum 

 fhould even enable him to go on with his farm? 

 yet it does this, but the confequence muft 

 inevitably be a moil weak and injudicious 

 culture. Such a man can ftand no misfor- 

 tunes ; the leafl accident goes near to crufli 

 him. While this is the flate of the French 

 hufbandry ; while the landlord has a paltry 

 income ; while the peafant is a beggar, and 

 the land never improved ; while the King 

 takes fuch an enormous (hare, not much of 

 which reaches his exchequer, and confe- 

 quently he is always in want of more ; while 

 this is the cafe, Britain has no reafon to 

 dread the hundred millions of acres of ter- 

 ritory, and the fifteen millions of people in 

 her rival's hands. 



The 1 4th, at night, I arrived at Orleans, 

 which is not fo fine a place as I expected to 

 find it. The ijth I reached Bourges. In 

 my way thither, I (lopped twice, to make 

 enquiries into their hufbandry. I found 

 many vineyards, which feemed very well 



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