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fometimes fufFered, and they could get no 

 wine that was remarkable for flavour. We 

 are alfo, faid he, late in our Spring, owing 

 to this caufe, and feel other incoveniences, 

 which thofe who are not fo near to fuch a 

 ridge of hills as the Pyrennees. It is for 

 this reafon we confine ourfelves to common 

 hufbandry, and do not offer to make thofe 

 improvements, which, perhaps, we otherwife 

 fhould. Being fo near the vafl tracls of 

 heath that fpread around them, upon which 

 great numbers of fheep are fed, by farmers 

 who have no other hufbandry than that of 

 fheep, we adopt our management with a 

 view to thofe neighbours. They have plenty 

 of food in Summer, but none in Winter, 

 and are therefore obliged to hire food of us 

 who are near them 5 and as their quantity 

 of fheep, and the neceffity of Winter food 

 makes it anfwer to them to give us goo4 

 prices, we find no branch to pay us better 

 than fupplying them. Upon this account 

 we take care, in all our methods of plant- 

 ing our ground, to have crops enough of 

 turneps, clover, lucern s and fuch plants as 

 anfwer our great end. Some of our farmers 

 keep large flocks thernfelves upon the moun- 

 tains. 



