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gives them a greater plenty of corn. The 

 land is, in general, a lighdfti ftony loam : 

 it is in the great culture, and the farmers 

 pay from 45. 6d. to 55 an acre for it. 

 Wheat yields them two quarters an acre ; 

 rye they fometimes fow inftead of it, which 

 produces fomething more than wheat j bar- 

 ley about as much as rye ; oats three quar- 

 ters an acre, and buck-wheat three and an 

 half. The people throughout this country 

 live chiefly upon buck-wheat cakes, which 

 are better than I fuppofed them. There 

 are many inclofures in different parts here, 

 in which they fallow but rarely, fubftitu- 

 ting certain crops inftead of it, by way of a 

 change, and improvement of the foil, fome- 

 thing in the flile of Flanders management. 

 Thefe crops are ufually cole-feed, turneps, 

 clover, lucern, fainfoine, &c. and this way 

 they find much more beneficial than the 

 common one* 



The 20th, I breakfafted at Thizy, at the 

 houfe of a gentleman I was recommended 

 to by M. Rocquelou, who had affured 

 me he was well Ikilled in agriculture. His 

 name was Defaint, whofe principal fupport 

 ivas a fmall eftate there, upon which he 



lives 



