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thofe parts of France where the lands are 

 thrown into the divifion, whole farms 

 through, of half arable and half wheat, in 

 which method there can be but very little 

 employment at all, and what there is can 

 be only at certain feafons, by which means 

 the poor have the mifchief of being idle 

 through much of their time, which is ever 

 attended with ill confequences. The Spa- 

 niards through this province, even to the 

 loweft ranks, appear to be very comfortable 

 in their circumstances, and not much to 

 feel opprefiion of government j yet there arc 

 many very heavy excifes upon the neceffa- 

 ries of life. 



From Tortofa I took the road to Teruel, 

 getting, the firft night, as -far as Mas de 

 Coll, in Valencia : there was no inn, fo had 

 recourfe to the civility of a farmer, which 

 I was glad to find much greater and more 

 obliging than that of any of the inn-keepers 

 I had met with out of great towns; all of 

 them are civil enough when they have a to- 

 lerable larder, fo as not probably to be 

 afked for any thing which they cannot pro- 

 duce : but, as generally is the cafe, when 

 they are very badly provided, they do not 



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