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 ingenuity in thefe trials of M. Prefaint; and 

 a man who amufes with trying fuch, will 

 fcarcely fail of making fome ufeful difcove- 

 jries, even though his experiments be in ge- 

 neral too fmall to be followed. 



But whatever objections might be made 

 to this gentlem in's experiments, there could 

 be none to his converfation, which abounded 

 with fo much information on the fub- 

 jecl: of agriculture, that it was impoffible 

 to be in his company without profiting 

 confiderably. Happening accidentally to 

 mention an inclination I had to fee the heaths 

 of Bourdeaux, he told me that he had twice 

 travelled over them, in puffing from Bayone 

 to Bourdeaux, and from Ayre thither; 

 that as I intended to pafs into Spain, I 

 muft by all means do it by Roupillon, an4 

 through Catalonia, or I mould efcape feeing 

 the fineft part of Spain. Upon this I en r 

 quired of him concerning that vaft trad of 

 uncultivated land, and the account he gave 

 ine was as follows : 



" They extend, in one vaft meet of wafte, 

 Cxty miles in length, by forty in breadth, 

 and contain above fifteen hundred thou- 

 fand acres. In all the journey I twice took 



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