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 payments from the fmaller proprietors, with 

 the poiTeffion of royalties, &c. The ex- 

 tent of the province is fuppofed to amount 

 to about eighty leagues fquare. Through- 

 out the whole territory the foil is bad ; 

 being ftony, rocky, and flerile, or elfe 

 fandy or marmy : nor is the climate fo re- 

 gular and good as in the provinces more to 

 the north or the fouth, which is partly 

 owing to its mountains. The hufbandry is, 

 in general, that of the fmall culture, and 

 with oxen, though there are exceptions in 

 fome places, where farms are let on leafe. 

 But in both the methods there are no great 

 exertions -, and among the renters there is 

 not one whofe farm lets for more than 20!. 

 or 30!. a year -, ib that fuch a thing as a rich 

 farmer is no where to be found here. There 

 are fome peculiarities in their methods of 

 conducting bufinefs, which deferve to be 

 noticed : their harveft labourers and 

 threfhers are not paid by the day, or with 

 money ; but have a portion of the crop, 

 which the Marquis thinks a very bad way. 

 Another circumflance in which they differ 

 from other provinces, is, the confinement 

 of their fheep to clofe ftables, inftead of 



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