50 TRAVELS THROUGH 

 With the advantage of much more dung 

 being made in the penn, and of a better 

 fort. 



" All thefe particulars of their manage- 

 ment we thought very valuable, and were 

 fbrry to find, from the accounts given by 

 the peafants, that the truftees had lately 

 been urging them to try experiments in 

 M. du Hamel's hufbandry, of drilling and 

 horfe-hoeing wheat. They had very fen- 

 fibly remonflrated againft this ; mewing, 

 that the improvement of the mountains 

 could not pombly depend upon any thing 

 but cattle ; that there were no roads in very 

 numerous trads of them, through which 

 corn, when raifed, could be moved ; whereas 

 cattle every where carried themfelves to 

 market, through the word roads in the 

 world ; that they had no foil proper for 

 wheat, and, if the foil was found, the cli- 

 mate was not fuch as would admit the cul- 

 ture; upon which accounts they begged 

 permimon to go on in the way they had 

 begun, which promifed all poffible fuc- 

 cefs. 



c We thought the peafants perfectly 



reafonable in their remonflrance, but what 



effect 



