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this feafon, carried a very fine one, and 

 promifed to be good crops. They carry 

 thefe things to market, and ufe all the infe- 

 rior parts of the produce for their hogs, and 

 other cattle. Lands here are let on leafe td 

 farmers in the fame manner as in England* 

 and to all appearance much more effectually 

 for the advantage of all parties, than they 

 are in the parts of France under the great 

 culture. Farms are generally fmall, and 

 many lands are cultivated by the proprie- 

 tors. It is not here the cuftom to herd fo 

 much in towns, as in France, which is a 

 great advantage to the Spanifh husbandry : 

 the farm-houfes are fcattered about the 

 country, and all this part of Catalonia is 

 inclofed. The worft thing I know for the 

 farmer here is the extreme cheapnefs of 

 proviiions ; yet that is part made up to him 

 by the lownefs of the price of labour : for a 

 man here, in Summer and Winter, with-* 

 out diftindtion of the feafon, not even in 

 the vintage, or olive gathering, may be had 

 conflantly for 6d. a day; and at the diflance 

 of about an hundred miles from the coaft 

 their labour is only 4d. Their vineyards 

 yield here a grofs produce of about 15!. art 



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