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I (aw very fine crops, which they faid were 

 nothing to what they had later in the year; 

 yet they give them no culture, while grow- 

 ing, not even, as in France, to weed them. 

 The farmer told me his wheat, ufually, 

 produced about three quarters an acre, if 

 the feafon was not remarkably dry j but that 

 the drought in fome years was fo fevere, 

 that they did not get one. Barley, upon 

 which all the horfes, mules, and affes in 

 Spain are fed, inftead of oats, yields three 

 or four quarters an acre -, buck-wheat as 

 much, but millet feldom pays them well ; 

 maiz does very well here, and yields more 

 abundantly than any other crop. Sainfoine 

 they cultivate upon dry hills, which do not 

 well for vines or olives. This grafs produces 

 greatly there, even in this Lot climate. 

 The wafte common, I juft mentioned, is 

 partly fpread with fainfoine, which is its 

 fpontaneous growth, or at leafl muft have 

 been fown there ages ago. Relative to the 

 profit of vines and olives, the farmer has 

 both; but he does not increafe them, from 

 not finding fo much advantage as from corn 

 and grafs, and other crops : he informed 

 me, that, taking a whole year through, he 

 B b 3 thought 



