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 The 30!. i2s. 6d. including the mainte- 

 nance of. the metayer, this remainder is the 

 rent the landlord receives from one hun- 

 dred and feventy-five acres. Nothing can 

 be clearer than the mifchievous effects of 

 fuch an agriculture, which can entail no- 

 thing but poverty and mifery upon land- 

 lord, tenant, and the public. Any foil 

 that is worth cultivating at all, muft be ca- 

 pable of yielding a produce infinitely beyond 

 this. But one is furprifed at a French 

 metayer (or undertaker of the farm) agreeing 

 to cultivate one hundred and feventy-five 

 acres with fo fmall a flock as four fcore 

 pounds ; and one is equally furprifed to find 

 the landlord, who ought to be more enligh- 

 tened, fuppofing fuch a fum fufficient for 

 the purpofe. While fo very little is beftowed 

 on the land, how is it poffible it mould 

 yield otherwife than it does ? Goodnefs of 

 the foil, with fuch management, has little 

 to do in the cafe. 



The 1 6th, I took the road to Nevers, 

 which is thirty miles from Bourges. I had 

 a letter to M. 1'Abbe Morault of that place, 

 from the Marquis de St. Arnaud, who had 

 afTured me he would be very able to anfvver 



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