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tiling in the face of the country, or in the appearance 

 of the Crops, to distinguish them from those of the 

 other parts I had noticed. On my way from the 

 province of Lublin, I again entered Sandoinir, passing 

 the Vistula at Rachow. From that river, for sixty 

 or seventy miles, the fertility of the land was not 

 sensibly greater than the general appearance of the 

 other provinces. After passing Stobnica, the country 

 vastly improved, and continued good through Nowe- 

 Miastow, Kozyce, and Przeclavvice, till I entered the 

 province of Cracow, at Iwanowice. It is an undula- 

 ting district, somewhat hilly : the soil, a good brown 

 loamy clay, rather stiff to plough, requiring three, or 

 oven sometimes four horses to work it. The stubbles 

 of Wheat were tolerably thick, and proved that the 

 crops must have been good; they were, however, far 

 from clean ; and the Wheat, having been sowed after 

 a fallow, there would have been more appearance of 

 young Clover, if the management had been well con- 

 ducted. The wheat grown here, is that which is 

 known in London by the name of Dantzic White 

 Wheat ; it is of the most excellent quality, very white 

 and heavy ; I did not learn that the average growth 

 was much beyond, if it reached, twenty bushels to the 

 acre ; though I heard of individual instances of a 

 greater quantity being yielded in good years. The 

 district is about sixty miles in length, but not broad ; 

 extending from the left bank of the river, to various, 

 but none great, extents inland. The province of 

 Cracow, as far as I saw it, is of nearly the same kind ; 

 I was informed that some of the northern divisions of 

 it were poor in its agriculture, but rich in its mines of 

 iron, coal, and calamine. The territory of the repub- 

 lic of Cracow is like the province of the same name, 

 in the kingdom. The marks of more freedom allowed 

 to exertion, are visible in the extensive fields of flax, 

 and the inclosures with tobacco, maize, and a great 

 variety of garden vegetables ; a. part of it is likewise 



