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 the Cure having explained my defire of 

 being acquainted with the method and prin- 

 ciples of the improvements, the farmer ex- 4 

 plained them ; but aiked M. Reaumur if 

 I was acquainted with the circumftances of 

 their truft ? Upori being anfwered in the 

 affirmative, he requeued the Cure to give 

 me an account of it, which he did in the 

 following manner : 



" I defigned, Sir, to have let you have 

 viewed the improvements before you had 

 been acquainted with the original of them j 

 but as the farmer defires to have you firft 

 acquainted with them, I muft inform you, 

 that, about five and twenty years ago, the 

 Sieur de L'Eon, a very wealthy merchant at 

 Bayonne, having retired to an eftate near 

 Tarafcon, and becoming fond of agriculture, 

 when he died, furprifedthe world very much 

 bythefingularityofhiswill. He left 10,500!. 

 to be placed at intereft on mortgage, till an 

 eftate, within one hundred miles of Tarafcon, 

 could be purchafed ; and the intereft of the 

 money before the purchafe, and the rent of 

 the eftate after it, he ordered to be applied 

 to the cultivation, in an experimental man- 

 ner, of a large tradt of mountain he had near 



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