Travels During the Years 1787, 1788, & 1789: Undertaken More Particularly with a View of Ascertaining the Cultivation, Wealth, Resources, and National Prosperity of the Kingdom of France, Том 2W. Richardson, Royal-Exchange, 1794 |
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Travels During the Years 1787, 1788, & 1789: Undertaken More ..., Том 2 Arthur Young Повний перегляд - 1794 |
Travels During the Years 1787, 1788, & 1789: Undertaken More ..., Том 2 Arthur Young Повний перегляд - 1794 |
Travels During the Years 1787, 1788, & 1789: Undertaken More ..., Том 2 Arthur Young Повний перегляд - 1794 |
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Сторінка 65 - Besides clothing the earth with herbage, and preserving its fertility, it feeds the labourers plentifully, requires from them only a moderate toil, except in the season of harvest, raises great numbers of animals for food and service, and diffuses plenty and happiness among the whole.
Сторінка 311 - I defired one of the fliepherds to catch a ram for me to feel, and examine the wool, which I found very thick and good of the carding fort, as may be fuppofed.
Сторінка 221 - When the weeding is finifhed, the water is drawn off for eight days; and it is again drawn off when the ear begins to form, till formed ; after which it is let in again till the rice is nearly ripe...
Сторінка 137 - But there is, in moft of their accounts, on the debtor's fide, a variety of articles befide thofe of regular rent : fo much corn of all forts, borrowed of the landlord for feed or food when the poor man has none : the fame thing is common in France, wherever metaying takes place. All this proves the extreme poverty and even mifery of thefe little farmers ; and fhews that their condition is more wretched than that of a day labourer.
Сторінка 26 - The only property fit for a poor family, is their cottage, garden, and perhaps grafs land enough to yield milk ; this needs not of...
Сторінка 304 - ... manures that can be fpread upon any land. The rapidity of vegetation is fo great, that there are but few crops, which demand all the fummer for coming to perfection ; I believe hemp is the only one ; that plant is now five to feven feet in height, and of fo thick a luxuriance, that nothing can be imagined finer. The rye ftubbles are ploughed and fown with French beans, which are up and watered. After hemp wheat is the crop.
Сторінка 162 - ... troughs eight feet wide ; and at the fame place under a fmaller, that is conducted in wood. The variety of directions in which the water is carried, the eafe with which it flows in contrary directions, the obftacles which are overcome, are objects of admiration. The expence thus employed, in the twenty miles from Milan to Lodi, is immenfe. There is but little rice, and fome arable, which does not...
Сторінка 173 - ... it for ten minutes or a quarter of an hour in a tub to drain. The vat, in the mean time, is prepared in a broad hoop of willow, with a cord round to tighten it, and widens or contracts at plealure, according to the fize of the cheefe.
Сторінка 173 - ... has taken place, empties about three-fourths of the whey, in order the better to command the curd. He then pours three or four gallons of cold water...
Сторінка 152 - ... advantage to have a new canal brought through them, as they have the opportunity of buying water of the proprietors. It is fold per hour per week, and even half an hour, and down to a quarter. The common price of an hour per week, for ever, is 1 500 liv.