FRANCE. 
-e@mprifed wheat, rye, barley, and oats. 
Its annual produce, 
before the Svolutes, was rate 
of fétiers of 12 Paris 
by Vauban at 59,175,000 4 buthels, or 2qolb. 
Ys . weight 
by Quefnay at 45,000,oce 
bythe Abbé d’Expilly at geet 
y Lavoifier < 
by Mr. Arthur Young at 75,000,0c0 
307,648,380 
eae emer macnn 
the : average of which fum gives 61, 519,672 iétier 
The price of wheat generally varies from 25 os 
livres the fétier. 
ine. oral the revolution of hee France, accord- 
* to Mr. r Young, cultivated the vine on_an extent 
which eae nearly ‘the twenty-fixth ea of its territo- 
ry, and grapes formed the fixth part of its produce ~ Of 130 
nitijions of acres, five millions were covered with vines, which, 
a the average produce of 175 French livres per acre, yie ay 
875 millio The fame line of demarcation wh oe that in- 
telligent a ec eT traced at that time for the growth ‘oe 
the vineis Rill ec orrect. France has not changed in fat refpect 
fince 1787, mre not likely to change. The annual average 
produce may 7 — at 15,000,000 muids of Paris, of 
144 quarts ea or 540 millions of Englifh gallons. "Phe 
beft French wines are thofe of te al , Char mpagne, Bour+ 
deaux, Anjov riéans, and Poit 
-In the ee of the lait nay France exported, upon 
an, average of oe cheek from the year 1720 to 19725, annually, 
wine to the am 20,880,200 French livres. 
3 French 
In 1778 ihe exportation 
“* amounte d to : i pages 
3320325 
Of brandy, the ecoseution in the er utde eae - laft 
ceatury eine annually to 5,8§2,g00 livre 
In 1778 - 4,660,221 — 
In 1784 . -. = 11,360,200 
In 1787 - - - I pete —_ 
n 1788 43057300 
Of vine the exportation inthe beginning of the lait 
century nie ae annually to 34,400 livres, 
In 1978 T41,89 
In 1784 » - + 124,400 — 
In 1787 - - - 1 1309 — 
n 1788 1,700 
3. Hemp and fax but nethee in fafficrent aundanss for 
its own confumpt 
. Rape and im feed, lisa furnifh excellent lamp-oil, 
chiefly i in the northern departments. 
5. Indian corn sok ieee 
6. Madder, tobacco, and hops. 
"ny, Allforts of ples, roots, aa ae ‘greens, graffes, 
and an immenfe variety of medicinal 
8. All forts of the fineft res as ioe oranges, chef- 
nuts, olives, &c. 
Attempts h have alfo recently ve bi = introducing t the 
the municipality 
ne ine rtment of Vale ac ed the fuc 
igo 
te of Mh. Tea dle Bataglin and on 
fore of the heaths (landes) ‘of France. Mr. Louis Dupoy, 
a colonift of St. Domingo, at prefent’ comptroller of the 
cuftoms at Dax, has fuc cofsfally i introduced the culture of 
cotten ; he provided himfelf-with feeds proper for the experi- 
a nt in Louifian 
oa from the revo = 
the total number w 
Of nel horfes = . _ eco 
Horfes kept at Paris : co 
In all the other towns - Res 
in the armies - r 100,000 
1,835,168 
2. Oxen and cows, wiz 
Oxen employed in hufbandry ~- 3,208,000 
—— feeding - » = 404,500 
Young oxen - - - - 1,456,c0e 
Cows - - “ - - 1,016,000 
6,084,500 
3. Sheep, which are capone from the Spanith flocks 
m Sacer oe ore fa Sei _ Dun fur 
Mor Their number 802 wa 
. oe ne one vnllion of which were in athe Pie improving 
condition. ‘The common fleeces weigh 3lb. each ; thote of the 
improved breed from 6 to 8 
bonne. 
very rich in mineral produGtions They hav 
been coe ey incréafed by t e-diftrels to which ri 
was reduced in 1792, 1793, and 1794 by the coalition of 
all - o i aalods of Europe. | 
e ptire metals iron is the moft abundant. ‘Two 
should ae fupply the wants of the countty, which 
ore the pirate as oblige d to ie soa iron to the ans 
eal value of fr 1 to £2 thillions of Fre 8. 
The principal on mines are in the Seance of the 
Rhine, the Upper Pyrences, and the Upper Alps 
Of the few lead mines that are worked moft meld filver at 
the fame time. 
e prin aaa mines of mercury and calamine are in the 
si sollte of the arian and Roér. Antimony and manga~ 
eare ing 
2. OF metalic tales. fae has green, white, and ue 
peras; vetdigris chiefly at Montpellier; alum, Epfom 
falt, in the ne! tec oudicod of Liege 5 3 marine falt (foud mu. 
riatée) a iaath ate = ammoniac. 
3 miner: Vis rauce has the moft important, 
viz. the oe aed; or oil of vitr ’ the nitric acid, or 
aqua fortis, and the muriatic oxygen 
. OF the combuftible -minerals fase has pit-coal in 
abundance, rae in the care of. ue e pe 
Meule, eal North, Ca 
n- e depart- 
feck of the Aud dey Gort aide 5 Ardécle Sati bitumen, 
Ffz called 
