IX 
Chap* 
4.—Hogs. 
5-—Rabbits. 
6. —Poultry. 
7. —Pigeons. 
8. —Bees. 
XIV. Rural Economy. 
Sect. 1.— Labour — Ser¬ 
vants — Labour¬ 
er—HoursofLa- 
bour. 
2. —Provision. 
3. —Fuel. 
XV. Political Econo¬ 
my, AS CONNECTED 
WITH,OR AFFECTING, 
Agriculture. 
Sect. 1.— Roads. 
2. —Canals. 
3. —Fairs. 
4/—Weekly Markets. 
5.—Commerce, 
Chap. 
6.—Manufactures. 
7—Poor. 
8.—Population, 
XVI. Obstacles to Im¬ 
provement; inclu¬ 
ding GENERAL OB¬ 
SERVATIONS ON AGRI¬ 
CULTURAL Legisla¬ 
tion and Police. 
XVII. Miscellaneous 
Observations. 
Sect. 1 . —Agricultural So¬ 
cieties. 
2.—Weights and 
Measures. 
Conclusion. 
Means of Improvement, and 
the Measurescalculated for 
that Purpose. 
Appendix. 
Perfection, in such enquiries, is not in the power of 
any body of men to obtain at once, whatever may be 
the extent of their views or the vigour of their exer¬ 
tions. If Lewis XIV. eager to have his kingdom 
known, and possessed of boundless power to effect it, 
failed so much in the attempt, that, of all the provinces 
in his kingdom, only one was so described as to secure 
the approbotion of posterity ;* it will not be thought 
strange 
* See Voltaire’s Age of Lewis XIV. vol. ii. p. 127, 128, edit. 1752. 
The following extract from that work will explain the circumstance 
above alluded to. 
Lewis had no Colbert, nor Louvois, when about the year 1698, 
for the instruction of the Duke of Burgundy, he ordered each of the 
intendants to draw up a particular description of his province. By 
this means, an exact account of the kingdom might have been ob¬ 
tained, and a just enumeration of the inhabitants. It was an useful 
work, though all the intendants had not the capacity and attention 
of Monsieur de Lamoignon de Baville. Had, what the king directed, 
been as well executed in regard to every province, as it was by this 
magistrate 
