irS THE RURAL SOaiATES. 



an article in the Encyclopedie"^ gives a decided prefer 

 ence to hories ; and that your opinion adds great 

 weight to this decilion. I admit alio that the fa6b on 

 your fide may be incontefiable in a great part of 

 France. — Yet may not there be a difference in Switzer- 

 land ; where our oxen ieeni much more powerful and- 

 active than in France, and our herbage better fuited to 

 their conftitutions ? Our caulc alio, when fattened, 

 bear a much better price : The heft of them being driv- 

 en as far as Paris, and in time of war many being fold 

 to the armies ; none but the cattle of Auvergne equaU 

 ling ihem. On the other hand, the food of horfes is 

 dearer in Switzerland, than in France, efpecially oats. 

 Perhaps laflly, our horfes require extra food ; at Icafl:^ 

 in our late camp:iij>,ns, I obferved that the Swifs horfes 

 in our regiment fuifered much more from the hard die? 

 to which tlicy were reduced, than thofe of other coun- 

 tries.* -^^^ 



Reply of tJiQ Marquis to the Fre?ich Tra?iflaicr ; dated 

 Pans^'J'aruiary 25, 1763. 



* * * I AM much pleafed, for the fake of the public, 



that the fale ofthc P^^ural Socrates anfvvers fo well ; nor 



do I apprehend, that a feccnd edition has occafion for 



any augmentations to give it equal fuccefs. — I have al- 



vays been fcrupnlous of making alterations in the effays 



\ puWiih, if they go through a fecond edition ; though 

 - •* linly, there are very eifential corre£iions wanting 3 

 : : 'xample, in the fequel oi U Ami des Hormnes^ I have 

 t;f;;refly conti'adifted what 1 had afTcrted as a funda- 

 jnentaj orinciple in the firfi: work ; namely, '' that pop* 

 '•^ ujpt^ion was the conjeqiteme of riches/' I was fen- 

 f;ble of my ei-or in milL^king the caufe for the ei?e6i:, 

 and have fince advanced that *' population was the origin 

 *' of wealth." — The method was fimple and eafy to 



have- 



* S9« Cnlftrr 4t( tetrth In il.c oiigtn:4l French E^ic^^J^^^'^f*^ 



