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grains each. I believe that tliere would be at least 28 bushels 
per English acre. Now, if that land was drained, what would it 
not have produced? The General grows about 300 acres of 
meadow per annum on one estate, and 400 on the other. His 
crops of hay were about 2 tons per English acre. As the General 
was not at Szathmar, I returned to Vienna to see him. 
In returning to Tokay I took a different route, more to the 
north, through Berocszacz. The whole line of way is beautiful ; 
alluvial clay loam of great fertility, about one-half in tillage and 
the rest pasture. Lakes are frequent, but they are generally 
sh.nllow, growing immense crops of reeds, and abounding with 
wild fowl. Hares are also numerous throughout the whole 
country. The farming is anything but good, yet the crops are 
in many cases abundant. Wheat, oats, maize, potatoes, rapeseed, 
sunflowers, tobacco, hemp, clover, and lucerne, are the crops 
grown, which, if well, or even moderately managed, would be 
magnificent. 
The Hungarians are excellent horsemen, and use a lasso in 
the most dexterous style in catching the wild horses from the 
herd : as soon as they have caught one they immediately mount, 
without saddle or bridle, and with a short whip guide him at 
full gallop, until he is so tired that he is glad to walk ; then the 
rider jumps off and on his back, and goes through all sorts of 
manoeuvres, turning him round, first to the right, then to the 
left. The horse is managed in that manner for two or three days, 
then a bridle is put on him, and he is properly mouthed. A 
waggon and six, three and three abreast, driven over the rough 
tracks from town to town at a rattling pace, is a fine sight — 
so much tact in the driver and tractability in the horses are 
required to get safe over the sloughs and swamps that frequently 
occur in travelling over these unenclosed plains. 
After I arrived at Tokay I had to wait two days for the steam- 
boat, so I took some hours' walk among the hilly country to the 
north of the town, and went to the top of a high hill, by which I 
was enabled to see a great distance through the valleys on every 
side. These were more thickly populated than the plains. The 
land was a first-rate light loam almost to the top of the highest hills ; 
the farming bad, but the crops were productive, even those that 
appeared small ; there were many vineyards which were not well 
managed, also large plum-orchards : here lucerne grows to a large 
size — indeed, it is one of the most smothering weeds that infest 
the land. This would be a glorious sheep and tillage farming 
district in the hands of good managers. There is a good deal of 
drainage required among the hills and valleys. A wooden bridge 
across the Tessis at Tokay, which is now being built, will much 
facilitate the traffic on the river, as the present floating bridge 
