FRANCE. 213 



better appearance tha n I expected, from my 

 converfation with him the evening before. 

 But it is evident, from all accounts of this 

 hufoandry, that appearances are very de- 

 ceitful. He was preparing his land for 

 planting his potatoe crop, in which bufinefs 

 he feemed to be very fkilful. I took my 

 leave of him after this ride, and bent my 

 courfe towards Lyons, and, parting through 

 Moulains that evening, I laid at a farmer's 

 houfe at Boifly. The country, as I pafled, 

 has a very fine appearance, though not all 

 cultivated. Though rather a flat country, 

 yet the waves of gentle hills, which were 

 partly under corn, and part vineyards, with 

 the general motion in the arable fields, for 

 the barley and oat crops, rendered the face 

 of this trad very pleafant. Upon enquiring 

 of the farmer at BoifTy concerning the 

 hufbandry of the neighbourhood, he in- 

 formed me, that the management was fal- 

 lowing for wheat, then fowing barley, then 

 buck-wheat, and then oats ; a very unufual 

 mode for a French open field. It is exten- 

 five, and the farmers numerous; yet they 

 agreed to change the old method of fallow 

 wheat oats, for the prefent fyftem, which 

 P 3 gives 



