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Plat.’ We accordingly find him employed in drain* 
ing marshes of great extent, (1) in filling them with 
industrious Colonists, and in converting barren sands 
into fertile fields, by placing his capital in the midst 
of them. But amongst these good works, he forgot 
that the hands of the laborer, to be efficient, must be 
free ; he found the age dont and left them 
such. ; ‘ 
~The Saxon peasant, on the other hand, is rm 
and protected by the laws; he holds his farm on lease, 
which-he ‘sells or transmits to his children at will: 
and this is the principal cause of the flourishing state 
of Saxon agriculture. In Lusatia, a different legis- 
lation produces different effects; but for some years 
past, the government and great proprietors have con- 
curred in changing the vassalage of the peasants into 
a mild and salutary dependence. Saxony is remarka- 
ble for its grain products, and Lusatia for its stock— 
the latter counts four hundred thousand head of sheep 
of the Merino race. 
Geographers give to Austria and her dapienaladiilin 
1065 leagues in circumference. In a surface like 
this, there is necessarily a great variety, as well of 
climate as of soil ; but in general, both are favorable 
to agriculture. “In the districts of the Inn, of Low- 
er Stiria, of Istria, and of Carniola, the land is of 
good quality, well cultivated and very productive. 
In the last, they have two crops in the year; sowing 
buckwheat on wheat or rye stubble, and millet on 
(1) In the Dollart what was lost by the sea was regained, and the marshes on the 
Netz and the Warth at Friedberg, and in Pomerania, were drained, and the country 
rendered habitable, 
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