Travels During the Years 1787, 1788 and 1789: Undertaken More Particularly with a View of Ascertaining the Cultivation, Wealth, Resources, and National Prosperity, of the Kingdom of France; to which is Added, the Register of a Tour Into Spain, Volume 1R. Cross, P. Wogan, L. White, P. Byrne, A. Grueber, J. Moore, J. Jones, W. Jones, W. McKenzie, and J. Rice, 1793 - Agriculture - 4 pages |
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... , with fome modern ones ; perhaps as fure a teft of profperity as any other . They are raising also a new new church , on a large and expenfive fcale . 8 BOULO G N E. parts of Norfolk and Suffolk; gentle hills, with ...
... , with fome modern ones ; perhaps as fure a teft of profperity as any other . They are raising also a new new church , on a large and expenfive fcale . 8 BOULO G N E. parts of Norfolk and Suffolk; gentle hills, with ...
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... also , that mulberries ex- tend beyond Vigan , but then , and especially about Milhaud , almonds take their place , and are in very great quantities . My Rouverge friends preffed me to pass with them to Milhaud and Rodez , affured me ...
... also , that mulberries ex- tend beyond Vigan , but then , and especially about Milhaud , almonds take their place , and are in very great quantities . My Rouverge friends preffed me to pass with them to Milhaud and Rodez , affured me ...
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... also to an elegant oval concert - room and faloons for walk- ing and refreshments . The theatre itfelf is of a vast size ; in shape the segment of an oval . The establishment of actors , actreffes , fingers , dan- cers , orchestra , & c ...
... also to an elegant oval concert - room and faloons for walk- ing and refreshments . The theatre itfelf is of a vast size ; in shape the segment of an oval . The establishment of actors , actreffes , fingers , dan- cers , orchestra , & c ...
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... also of fuch parts of their bodies that mark the vifible effect of diftempers . This is very rich . This , with a fimilar one near Lyons , is kept up ( exclufive of the addition of 1783 ) , at the moderate expence , as appears by the ...
... also of fuch parts of their bodies that mark the vifible effect of diftempers . This is very rich . This , with a fimilar one near Lyons , is kept up ( exclufive of the addition of 1783 ) , at the moderate expence , as appears by the ...
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... much stronger , perhaps larger , and far greater precautions taken in giving them firmnefs and folidity : it is also a queftion , whether they must not be funk much nearer hearer to each other ; at all events , the 170 CHERBOURG ,
... much stronger , perhaps larger , and far greater precautions taken in giving them firmnefs and folidity : it is also a queftion , whether they must not be funk much nearer hearer to each other ; at all events , the 170 CHERBOURG ,
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Page 84 - Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden ; give him a nine years lease of a garden, and he will convert it into a desert.
Page 141 - ... he takes it with him into a room, and turns a machine enclosed in a cylindrical case, at the top of which is an electrometer, a small fine pith ball; a wire connects with a similar cylinder and electrometer in a distant apartment; and his wife, by remarking the corresponding motions of the ball, writes down the words they indicate; from which it appears that he has formed an alphabet of motions. As the length of the wire makes no difference in the effect, a correspondence might be carried on...
Page 82 - Every man has an olive, a mulberry, an almond, or a peach tree, and vines scattered among them; so that the whole ground is covered with the oddest mixture of these plants and bulging rocks, that can be conceived. The inhabitants of this village deserve encouragement for their industry ; and if I were a French minister they should have it.
Page 89 - Such circumstances are political data. We cannot demand all the books of France to be opened in order to explain the amount of circulation in that kingdom : a politician...
Page 285 - ... greater part of the countrywomen in France ; it speaks, at the first sight, hard and severe labour : I am inclined to think, that they work harder than the men, and this, united with the more miserable labour of bringing a new race of slaves into the world, destroys absolutely all symmetry of person and every feminine appearance.
Page 57 - After these two points, all is a blank. You have no parlour to eat in; only a room with two, three, or four beds.
Page 235 - The spectacle of the representatives of twenty-five millions of people, just emerging from the evils of 200 years of arbitrary power, and rising to the blessings of a freer constitution, assembled with open doors under the eye of the public, was framed to call into animated feelings every latent spark, every emotion of a liberal bosom.
Page 107 - France for markets, the quantity of waste land is surprising: it is the predominant feature the whole way. Much of these wastes belonged to the Prince de Soubise, who would not sell any part of them. Thus it is whenever you stumble on a Grand Seigneur, even one that was worth millions, you are sure to find his property desert.
Page 30 - ... a desert compared with those around London. In ten miles we met not one stage or diligence; only two messageries, and very few chaises; not a tenth of what would have been met had we been leaving London at the same hour.