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than any foreigner can be, with the state of the 

 country. If I had met with any agricultural writings 

 expressly Polish, and had understood the language, I 

 might have gleaned from them some facts to rectify, 

 or to corroborate the estimate of the actual acreable 

 produce of Grain ; but as every manager of a farm, 

 that I met with, understands the German language, 

 and obtained whatever knowledge books could give 

 him, from the writers of that nation, there is little 

 inducement to compose works in Polish, on such sub- 

 jects ; and the German authors, though very accurate 

 and copious in their statistical reports of their several 

 districts, can know little, and can have no inducement 

 to learn much, of the statistical details of Polish agri- 

 culture. 



The managers of the farms of the greater nobles 

 are commonly men of good education, as well as good 

 manners, having been most of them officers in the 

 army ; and I found them well acquainted with the 

 agricultural writings of Thaer, Schwartz, and other 

 Germans; and by means of German translations, with 

 those of Arthur Young, Sir Humphrey Davy, and 

 other Englishmen. Being almost cut off from society, 

 and the sports of the field not being, as with us, an 

 object that engages much attention, they have recourse 

 to books to relieve their solitude in the long nights of 

 their tremendous winters. 



Having noticed the Two Provinces which yielded 

 the best Wheat, it may not be useless to observe, in 

 addition, that but some small portions of each are 

 highly productive, and those at that extremity of the 

 kingdom which is the farthest removed from the ports 

 in the Baltic, at which alone their Corn can be shipped 

 for this country. 



I first entered the province of Sandomir from that 

 of Massovia, and went through it, by the towns of 

 Kozience and Granica, till I reached the Vistula, and 

 crossed it at Pulaway. In this route there was no- 



