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are substituted for turnips, and the breadth of corn is 

 extended in the place of other crops ; but, upon the 

 whole, these exceptions compensate the one for the other, 

 at least in Great Britain in Ireland the whole system 

 is different. 



Upon the whole, deducting eleven millions of un- 

 cultivated hectares contained in the British Isles, the 

 twenty millions of cultivated hectares are divided nearly 

 as follows : 



Hectares. 



Natural pasture, ..... 8,000,000 



Artificial grasses, ..... 3,000,000 



Potatoes, turnips, beans, .... 2,000,000 



Barley, .- ; . . . 1,000,000 



Oats, ....... 2,500,000 



Fallows, ...... 500,000 



Wheat, ...... 1,800,000 



Gardens, hops, flax, &c., . . . . 200,000 



Wood, ...... 1,000,000 



Total, ..... 20,000,000* 



In France we have also eleven millions of hectares un- 

 cultivated out of fifty-three ; the remaining forty-two 

 millions being divided as follows : 



Hectares. 



Natural meadows, ..... 4,000,000 



Artificial ditto, ..... 3,000,000 



Boots, ...... 2,000,000 



Oats, . . . . . . 3,000,000 



Fallows, ...... 5,000,000 



Wheat, . . . . 6,000,000 



Eye, barley, maize, buckwheat, . . . 6,000,000 



Other crops, . . . . . . 3,000,000 



Vineyards, ...... 2,000,000 



Wood, 8,000,000 



Total, ..... 42,000,000 



A comparison of these two tables shows the difference 

 between the two agricultures. 



* This is a distribution of the soil of the British empire in many respects 

 differing from that given by any of our statists, so far as we have seen ; but as 



