TRAVELS THROUGH 

 fuch plan will bye and bye be executed, 

 that is practicable, whenever the expence 

 will be fubmitted to, nobody can doubt ; 

 and I will venture to anfwer for the foil, 

 that it will never difappoint the expecta- 

 tions of thofe who try the experiment." 



Leaving M. Prefaint the 2d of April, I 

 took the road to Papoul, in my way to 

 Mirepoix, where that gentleman recom- 

 mended me, by letter, to another, who 

 would receive me with pleafure. I ex- 

 pected to reach Papoul by night, but the 

 road was fo bad, that I could get no farther 

 than Caftres, which is only half-way. 

 This country is tolerably cultivated under 

 corn, vines, fome olives, many mulberries, 

 watered meadows on the rivers, and inclo- 

 fures that were under lucern : they were 

 mowing it for the firft time, a full crop, 

 which fliews the earlinefs of this climate ; 

 yet they had known it in fome years ready 

 to mow fooner. They gave it to all forts 

 of cattle in ftables, never feeding it in 

 the field, reckonin-g, that in mowing it 

 went much farther than in grazing, befides 

 the cattle dung better upon it. The lands 

 here are, in general, in the frnall culture, and 



horfes, 



