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towns, 600 livres to 850 livres. Some at 1000 livres (531. 6s. per Englifh acre\Good watered meads, 1000 livres to 1200 livres.
Turin .—The price of land in the environs of Turin , as may be fuppofed, is very high.Four miles from the town fonie is fold without water, at 1200 livres the giornata : withwater, it depends on quantity, and the value is immenfe. Land that has one houra u'eek of fuch a ftream as will water five giornata in that hour, fells at 1500 livres(79I. 19s. per Englifh acre); if it waters two giornata, 1000 livres; and if three, 1200livres. And fuch watering adds at lead one third to the value of the land. At Cam-biano, five miles from Turin , arable land fells at 3000 livres, but this is uncommon.Near the town fuch prices as 3000 livres and 4000 livres are known. But in general,arable watered, near Turin , fells at 1000 livres; at a didance and not watered, 200livres to 550 livres. If a general average were to be made of all forts of land, exceptthe very fined, it would be about 500 livres. In regard to rent, but little is let formoney, chiefly at one half produce ; but fuch meadows as would fell at 1000 livres v'ouldlet at 70 livres to 75 livres. If two-thirds are arable, and one third meadow, 40 livresw ill be about the rent in good lafids. In the territory of Turin , arable lets at 30 livres.
Vercelli. — Rice grounds, 500 livres; good wheat land, 800 livres; watered meadovv r600 livres and 700 livres per giornata.
Milanese. —The price varies from 15 livres for the poored wades, to 1000 livresthe pertica * ; but from 600 livres to 1000 livres more common. As the livre is 7 id.Englifh, 1000 livres is 98I. 19s. 2d. per acre. It is ufually bought in fuch a manner asto pay 2f to 3 pfr cent, for the purchafe money.
Between Milan and Pavia, land rendered good by water, fome fells at 300 livres to500 livres : at 300 livres it lets at 12 livres.
From Milan to Mozzata, when you have pafled the watered plain, which is in a fewmiles, the rent in general is not more than 4 livres or 5 livres the pertica. In everynew leafe for a long period, fuch as eighteen or twenty-one years, there is always an
* The difficulty I have met v.-ith, in afeertaining the contents of a Milanefe pertica, is flrange. Pauc--ton, in his Metrologie , makes it to the Englifh acre, as 0.14727 is to 0.7929, by which proportion, itfhould contain 8090 feet, or about 54 perticas in an acre. Count Alexander Cicogno, in the Memoirsof the Patriotic Society of Milan, vol. ii. p. 304, fays, that if feeds are planted at fifteen oncie one fromanother, 1479 will plant a pertica. As the oncia is two inches Englifh, this makes 92^3 Englifh feet in apertica.
Monf. de la Lande fays, that it takes more than five perticas to make an arpent de Paris ; now as thatarpent is to the Englifh acre, 0.6694 is to 0.7919, there are confequently 36,775 Englifh feet in that arpent;at five perticas, it would confift of 7355 Englifh feet, or about fix to an acre.
In the notes to the new edition of the Venli Giornataoi Gallo (1775), this pertica is faid to contain 6152French feet, which will not differ materially from De la Lande.
Count Carli, who was prefident of the fupreme council of Finances at Milan, and has written intelligentlyon the cenflmento fays, L’arpent di FranciaJla alia pertica Milanefe come 1 3 ad uno projfimamente. ( Delle operadel S. Conte Carli. bvo. 17*4, tom '• P- 223.) The arpent of France being to the arpent de Paris as 48to 32, there are 55,162 Englifh feet in it, and in the pertica (at to 1 ) 31,500 feet. Bat the fame au-thor fays (p. 320.), there are 4868 pertichi in a fquare Italian mile ; if fo, there are 3628 in a fquare Eng-lifh mile ; this makes 5I and 1 -6th pertichi to an Englifh acre.
Finding fo many contnadiiffions, I judged it nectffary to recur to different authority. The oncia of Mi-lan is two Englifh inches, and the meafures thus arrange themfelves:
One pertica 24 tavoli.
One tavoli 12 piedi.
One piede 12 oncie.
Of thefe the tavola and pertici are fquare meafures, the former containing 12 piedi fquare ; this makes 57 6Englifh feet, which multiplied by 24, the refult is J 3,824 feet for a pertica, or about 3% to an acre;and by this ellimate I fhail calculate.
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