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is reverberatory, but it is so ill constructed as to destroy much fuel 

 and produce little heat. Throughout the whole district there is fine 

 coarse clay for bricks, tiles, Sec. 



, 1 was here invited to taste some wine, made from grapes grown 

 on the spot, which was excellent. A more happy situation than 

 this vicinity affords for the growth of fruits of every kind can 

 scarcely be imagined. The pear, the olive, and the mulberry would 

 thrive here equally well with the grape, if proper pains were taken 

 with them. A skilful agriculturist would with great ease, I am cer- 

 tain, bring it into such a state of improvement as to serve the 

 double purpose of a corn and dairy farm ; excellent wheat might 

 be grown, and a certain quantity of the land kept under artificial 

 grasses for cutting. A fine stream of water runs through the whole, 

 with a sufficient fall to turn mills. 



The principles of husbandry seem as little understood here as in 

 any part of the territory through which we had hitherto travelled. 

 Perhaps there is no country on the globe where the vicissitudes of 

 plenty and scarcity do not prevail, and where human experience has 

 not shewn the necessity of laying by a store in time of abundance, 

 as a provision for a season of famine ; but here this salutary prac- 

 tice is almost wholly disregarded. The cattle are turned out on the 

 unenclosed tracts*, and left to subsist on whatever they can find. 

 In the summer months, when the grass throughout the wide extent 

 is burnt up, they flock to the margins of the rivulets as their last 

 resource, which soon fails. Numbers of them die of famine, and 

 those that survive the season are so exhausted and weakened that 

 they seldom thoroughly recover. 



A small mount in the vicinity of this pottery presented much 

 ferruginous matter, and a substance that appeared to me barytes 

 in a mamillary form, a specimen of which I took with me. ISince 



* The finest parts of these tracts, in the best season, are by no means so rich in grass as 

 an English meadow. 



