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acre, which bring in about 4!. to the pro- 

 prietor ; others produce, nett profit, not 

 more than 40$. yet the quantity of wine is 

 very great ; but the lownefs of the price 

 renders the profit of the culture fmall* 

 Olives have always corn under them, or 

 roots, or fome crop or other to make the 

 ground pay the better. An acre, thus cul- 

 tivated, if the trees are managed with judg- 

 ment, for much depends on that, will pro- 

 duce 5!. or 61. nett profit, to the proprie- 

 tor; but this includes both oil and corn. 



I arrived at Tortofa the i6th, at night, 

 pafling through a mod delicious country : 

 the hills are not very high, but rife in fine 

 waving flopes, all covered with a variety 

 of cultivation : corn fields, vineyards, mul- 

 berry plantations, and olive-gardens, inter- 

 mixed in the mofl pleafing manner; and 

 thickets of timber, riling fpots, break the 

 uniformity of every line and flat. The fea 

 appears only in places between the hills, 

 and the rivers every where wind through 

 the vallies : the houfes are fcattered among 

 all the fcenery, and the whole country ap- 

 pears flourishing and populous. I never yet 

 faw any thing comparable to this tracl. In 



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