THE RURAL SOCRATES. | 



He, that I fhculd feel much diflatisfied were the fmali- 

 eft particle added to the original. 



The charader of Kliyogg is not that of a man cor- 

 rupted by frequent converfe with the inhabitants of 

 fome neighboring city ; and who has been led to afPame, 

 and to be defpifed for affuming, manners ill-fuited to 

 the fituation of a peafant : much lefs is it that of one, 

 whom the fociety of men of letters, or a fuperiicial 

 knowledge of books, has made a pretender to learning* 

 Kliyogg is obliged to nature and his own reflexions, for 

 all that he poiGTefTes, and owes nothing to art. Content- 

 ed with his lot, he refufes every office^ even in the vil- 

 lage where he refides. 



His brother lives with him 2 their families, though 

 large, form but one houfhold. — Kliyogg has fix chil- 

 dren, and his brother five ; who are all, except one 

 daughter, mere infants. — At the death of their /ather, 

 the family inheritance was divided amongft five fons* 

 The eldefl chofe an cftate for his fliare ; the two next 

 preferred money ; and our afTociates remained joint 

 heirs to a tra£i: of land of about ninety-fom' acreSj* 

 ^yhicli was thus divided : 



Meadow g,roun-d 

 Arable 

 Pafture 

 Wood 



Acres » 



Total 94 



The value of this farm might be ^75^* fleriing. It 

 liad a mortgage upon it for half that amount at the time 



of 



* Acres, in the canton of Zarich, vary from 30,000 to 36,000 royal 

 fqii^Tc feet. F. 



The proportion betwcei^ the Paris roy'sfl foot and the EngHfh foot 1$ 

 this ; If the Englifh foot be divided into looo pa/ts, the Paris one wJU 

 be 106S [that is nearly as 15 to 16.] The Engliih acre contains 43,560 

 Englilh feet : therefore, {"uppofing the Zurich acre be to 33',coo, the 

 proportion between the Zurich and Engliih will be, as 10 to 14, Y, 

 I'lhe differei^ce of the feet makes it lefs ihao a» ^ is to ^j^ E. j 



