APPENDIX, 

 cefury toobferve hew muc^sxamples fach as thcfc honor and animate ag- 



ncuhure. 



See Travfls of a Philofophr hy M. le Pol'-jre ; 3 Deautitul and cele- 

 brated little pcribrmancs, cf Ihe EnglKh tranflation,of which, the panier 

 Vi ihe prcleni work puhlifhed a new ediiion'i'n 1797+* 



No. Vf. 



So?72e pariicnlars rrfped'mg Chlne/e agriculture* 



r.v what art (fays the fame xM. le Poivre) can the er.r:h produce fubfift- 

 fnce fin Chin;.] for fuch numhcrs ? Do the Chincfc, polfefs any fecret 

 for multiplying gnin nnd provinor..* * * ?--To fulve my clou >Ts I tra- 

 xzTh thefielHs; I introduce jnyfeU amcrg the hborers ; who are in 

 general, eafv, polite, and affable, with A>me (hare of learning atul know- 

 k^f e of the worlJ. I examine and purfuc them through all their opera- 

 .ions ; and ohferve that their fecret conhfts f.mply in rpanunng their 

 i5elds jadicioufly, ploughing thew to a conftderable depth, fowing them in 

 the proper fcafun. turning to advantage every inch of ground which can 

 produce the raoft inconaderable crop, and preferring to every other fpecics 

 cf cnlture that 0^ yrain, as bv far the moft important, , , /• 



This fyftem of culture, the laO. article excepted, appears to he the farre 

 thst is recommended in all our belt authors* "^ •^- ; our common laborers 

 ^^t acciiainted with it ;-but how much muR our European tarmers be 

 •{urprifed, when thty are inforrr.ed that the Chinefe h.ve no meado^^, 

 natural nor artificial ; and have not the Icaft conception o\ falloiving, 

 never allowlnp their lands the flighteft repofe. , , ^ 



The Chin?fe laborer would coidider n.eadow. cf every denomination, 

 sr. lands in a ftate of nature. They fow all their lands with graw ; and 

 rive the preference to fuch grounds as we generally lay out m ineadows ; 

 tihich lying low and being properly licuated with refped to water, are 

 confenuently by f.r the molt fertile. They affirm that a field fown w, h 

 grain will yield as much p-a^.o for the nourifhment of cattle, as it would 

 have produced o{ hay ; b.fides the additional advantage of the grain, for 

 thefuWnanceof m.n ; of which they can fpare too in plentiful (eafons, . 

 UzW portion for the animal creation.-Such is the fyftecn adhered to irorri 

 one ey'tremity of their e<.pire to the other, I'nd coi>firmed by the experi-- 

 cncecffouT thoufand yearp, among a people of all nalions in the world 

 Che #9(1 aaeniive to their inlerell. ^ ^^ 



le Pol'vre v:a.t the f^JIy and net the letiji i^} 



i)crlont coIfeHory of 



'.,/. ^ants of the Enftern Seas, n^hich ha've been Jinced'Jperfed through 

 u;imfl- Indies. Thej ^.refrj} dcpojtted in the JjU of France 7/.. No- 

 nee coicernin, the Ufe.fM. le Poi.r.^fayt. that the h,lh of exchange f 

 tbu amiable man, dra^n for his reimbv.rfement, long re^mavua unpaid ;and 

 njucre finally dijcharged during the odrninifiration of A'^r. 'lurgst.^. f.n 

 ^a.'l ii rc!u!cd upon memory. E-. 



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