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Accordingly, the effecT: is fuch as one might 

 expect; for^ inftead of the miferable beg- 

 garly peafants feen onr the lands in France, 

 the farmers and their labourers in Spain are 

 very much at their eafe in every refpecl:, 

 that can concern not only their property and 

 profit in an exemption from oppreffi ve taxes, 

 but alfo in that degree of independency 

 which is not commonly expected to be found 

 in arbitrary governments. In France the 

 flavifh fubordination of the lower people 

 very much exceeds any thing 1 have feen in, 

 Spain. 



The 21ft, I went from Valencia to 

 Xativa, through another tract of moft rich, 

 fertile, and well cultivated country, where 

 almoft every inch of land appeared to be 

 very highly managed. At Bonafaio I re- 

 marked, on the farm of a common peafant, 

 a field of four or five acres, planted with 

 lucern in rows, and between the rows of 

 the lucern, other rows of garden plants for 

 fale. Upon enquiry into this culture, I found 

 the man had done it much upon the prin- 

 ciples of the new hulbandry, thoug . 

 had moft certainly never hc-trd or feen a;ty 

 tlii::^ of thjt mode of culture : he thought 



