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 care to have any converfation with their 

 guefts, which is attributed merely to pride, 

 but is in fact cunning. The farmer I met 

 with at Mas de Coll, of whom I requefted 

 a lodging, promifing him, as I had always 

 done to others, to fatisfy him for the trouble 

 I mould give, was a confiderable one for 

 this country. He had above three hundred 

 acres, which he hired by leafe of a neigh- 

 bouring gentleman : the whole was well 

 inclofed. He told me he had a tracl: of flat 

 land, part arable, part meadow, and a fmall 

 part of it lucern, all which he watered re- 

 gularly. Upon my enquiring of him con- 

 cerning that hufbandry, he allured me, that 

 the utmoft exertions of good management, 

 in refpecl; of manuring, would not near 

 equal the command of water, which they 

 efteemed equally good for meadow, and all 

 forts of arable crops ; that they watered 

 their meadows in November or December, 

 and fed them in February : watered again 

 as foon as the cattle are taken out, and 

 mown the beginning of May ; then watered 

 again, and mown the middle of June; wa- 

 tered as foon as cleared, and mown the be- 

 ginning of Auguftj thus, watered again, and 



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