li22 -THE RURAL SOCRATSS. 



fcarcely replaced the feed it called for. They had re- 

 courfe therefore to the keeping of a tavern ; which, en- 

 couraging them flill more in an idle life, they fuffercd 

 it expences greatly to exceed its profits, their debts ac^- 

 cumulatcd, and the abandonment of the farm was quick- 

 ly the refult oftheir bad conduvSl. 



The chamber of finances, having his Excellency Mr. 

 Heidegguer at its heiad, looked out for a perfon who 

 had capacity and courage to reflore a farm thus redu^ 

 ced, and who at the feme time fhpuld find his account 

 in fo doing. — ^^It happened likewife that this farm, by 

 its fltuation, promifed a Iccond advantage from Ibch an 

 employment of it ; being placed between two villages 

 where agriculture was in a very low ftate, not to fay 

 entirely negle«3:cd. If the farm which belonged to the 

 republic, focceeded from able management, the force of 

 the example might produce a happy ferment among the 

 inhabitants of the neighborhood, awaken a zeal for 

 agriculture,, and reflore eafe and an ufeful population* 

 We call that an ufeful population, where the parties are 

 healthy, robufl, and laborious : which is very different 

 from the weak, debauched, and idle race fo often pro- 

 duced by an ill underftood zeal for manufactures. — 

 When things were viewed under this afped, the merit 

 of Klivogg could fcarcely efcapc the vigilant eye of the 

 government. He was adviied to propofchimfclf tbere- 

 fv)re as a tenant ; and was accepted vrith univerfal ap- 

 plaufe. 



The property confifted of (ixty-five journeaux* of 

 tneado'v land, one hundred and fifty acres of arable 

 land, four journeaux of vines, and twelve acres of com^ 

 mon wood (that is, a wood not confiding of pines and 

 firs.) It had the advantage of being all connected ;- 

 having a vaft houfe in the middle, two barns, and a 

 prefs, which joined to a granary, Thefituation of this 



doriiain 



* Journeaux arc quantities of Isnd capable oi b^ing each worked m 

 one day, E, 



