3 6* TRAVELS THROUGKt 

 all the parts of Europe where I have beerf 

 (Italy excepted) there is nothing that equals 

 it ; nor are there many fuch lines of country 

 even in Italy ; fince the richer! and highly 

 cultivated part of Italy is on a flat ; which 

 takes off almoft all beauty in that fingle 

 eircum (lance. 



Concerning the hufbandry of tliis beauti- 

 ful country, I could not colled fo many 

 particulars as I wimed ; but fome I gained 

 are deferving attention. I was informed, 

 that a farm of four hundred acres was at 

 large one, and that the moft common fize 

 was from fixty to one hundred and twenty; 

 that the farmers ufually would have a little 

 of every thing. You find watered grounds, 

 vineyards, olives, mulberries, corn, and 

 turneps, cabbages, potatoes, carrots, peafe, 

 and beans, on almoft every farm. They give 

 a very fenlible reafon for this, which is, the 

 employment of their fervants and labourers, 

 to have fomething for them to do in every 

 feafon, which makes their bufmefs, upon 

 the whole, much more profitable than it 

 would otherwife be. This is a point that 

 is not, by all accounts, fufficiently attended 

 to in every country, and particularly in" 



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