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at no more than one livre, or ten pence fterling, per 

 hundred. But even gain arifes from the blorToms that 

 fall off. They are collected, and fold to the perfu- 

 mers ; for at Marfeilles and all the great towns of thefe 

 coafts, are a number of manufactories of perfumes and 

 fweet-fcented pomatums. For this purpofe, they keep 

 aifo in their gardens feveral kinds of odoriferous plants 

 and flowers ; as the jafmine, the acacia mimofa, the 

 flowers of which emit a very fragrant fmell, &c. 



Likewife in culinary vegetables and flowers they 

 purfue a very lucrative commerce. Ail the various 

 kinds of cabbages are very delicate here ; and whole 

 fields are devoted to the growth of artichokes. Almort 

 the whole of thefe are fent to Toulon and Marfeilles, 

 as well as the flowers that blow here at a feafon when 

 none of them are to be had in places lefs warm. 

 From all which it follows that the art of gardening is 

 here a very conliderable means of fubfiftence. 



Almoft all the gardens and orchards are capable of 

 being watered. It is pleating to fee how ingenioufly 

 artificial contrivances are made for turning to profit 

 the little running water of the region. Everv where 

 along the garden-walls are feen fmali bricked aqueducts 

 which are fo contrived as that a man can let the water 

 into his garden, or leave it to run by, as he fees oc- 

 ean* on. 



The greateft part of the flat country confifts of corn- 

 fields and meadows ; the foil whereof is apparently 

 good and fertile. The arable land, as throughout the 

 whole province, is divided into narrow {tripes, which 

 are alternately planted with vines and lowed with corn. 

 Befides thefe there are fome that are cooiouflv planted 



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