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i'or that purpofe. Reach Girona , an old town walled and fortified with fome redoubts,and a fort on the hill above it; but not kept up, nor indeed would it flop an arnyhalf an hour. Here is a cathedral and a bifhop, who gave us his blefhng 3s we pafledhim, drawn in his coach by fix mules. His revenue is 24,000 French livres ; there arecuries , who have from 1 200 to 3000 livres. They tithe no live flock. They haveno manufa£lures of any confequence, and no refource but that of agriculture; yet,
what is extraordinary, Caflilian and French workmen come hither for employment.-
36 miles.
Snow is on the Pyrenees as well as at Bagnere de Luchon .
July 21. Leave Junquerras, where the countenances and manners of the peoplewould make one believe all the inhabitants were fmugglers. Come to a mofl nobleroad, which the king of Spain is making ; it begins at the pillars that mark the boun-daries of the two monarchies, joining with the French road; it is admirably executed.Here take leave of Spain and re-enter France : the contrail is flriking. When onecroffes the fea from Dqver to Calais , the preparation and circumflance of a navalpaffage lead the mind by fome gradation to a change; but here, without goingthrough a town, a barrier, or even wall, you enter a new world. From the naturaland miferable roads of Catalonia , you tread at once on a noble caufeway, made withall the folidity and magnificence that diflinguifh the highways of France . Inflead ofbeds of torrents you have well built bridges; and from a country wild, defert, andpoor, we found ourlelves in the midft of cultivation and improvement. Every othercircumflance fpoke the fame language, and told us by figns not to be miflaken, thatfome great and operating caufe worked an effect too clear to be mifunderflood. Themore one fees, the more I believe we fhall be led to think, that there is but one all-powerful caufe that infligates mankind, and that is government!—Others form excep-tions, and give fhades of difference and diflinclion, but this a£ts with permanent anduniverfal force. The prefent inflance is remarkable; for Rouffdlon is in fadt a part ofSpain ; the inhabitants are Spaniards in language and in cuftoms; but they are undera French government.
Great range of the Pyrenees at a diflance. Meet fhepherds that fpeak the Catalan .The cabriolets we meet are Spanifh. The farmers threfh their corn like the Spaniards.The inns and the houfes are the fame. Reach Perpignan ; there I parted with Monf.Lazowfki He returned to Bagnere de Luchon, but I had planned a tour in Langue-doc , to fill up the time to fpare.--15 miles.
The 22<i. The Duke de la Rochefoucauld had given me a letter to Monfieur BarrideLaffeufes, major of a regiment at Perpignan , and who, he faid, underflood agricul-ture, and would be glad to converfe with me on the fubjedt. I fallied out in the morningto find him, but being Sunday, he was at his country feat at Pia, about a league fromthe town. I had a roafling walk thither, over a dry flony country under vines.Monfieur, Madame, and Mademoifelle de Laffeufes, received me with great politenefs.
I explained the motives of my coming to France , which were not to run idly throughthe kingdom with the common herd of travellers, but to make myfelf a mafler of theiragriculture; that if I found any thing good and applicable to England, I might copyit. He commended the defign greatly; faid it was travelling with a truly laudablemotive ; but expreffed much aftonifhment, as it was fo uncommon ; and was very furethere was not a fingle Frenchman in all England on fuch an errand. He defired Iwould fpend the day with him. I found the vineyard the chief part of his hufbandry,but he had fome arable land, managed in the fingular manner of that province. He
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