young’s TRAVELS IN FRANCE.
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Bologna. —Wood , the load, 30 pauls. Faggots, 24 livres per two hundred. No coal.Charcoal, 1 \ paul the corba. Bottle of common wine, from 3 baioc. to 5 baioc.: com-mon price of wine, from 20 pauls to 30 pauls the corba of fixty bocali. Sugar, 2 pauls1 baioc. the pound. Coffee, 2 pauls 2 baioc. Of Moka, 3 pauls 5 baioc. Candles,
8 baioc. Wax ditto, 8 pauls. A footman with a livery, 50 pauls a month. A mancook, from 20 to 40 zecchins. An Englifh gentleman’s table is ferved, nine in the par-lour and five in the kitchen, by contract, for 20 pauls a day.
Florence. —To plough a ftiora of land, 3 livres. Hay, 4pauls the one hundred pounds(about 2I. 15s. a ton). Straw , 3 pauls per one hundred pounds. Wine, 8 grazie thebottle. Charcoal, one hundred pounds, 4 pauls. Wood , the catafter of fix braccialong, one and a half broad, and two high, 28 livres. Rent of a poor man’s houfe,
18 pauls.
Modena. —Wood , 45 livres the load, of three braccia long, three high, and threebroad. Wine, 40 livres the twelve pefi. Candles, 20 bol. Soap, 15 bol.
Parma. —Hay, eighty pefi , 150 livres (the pefi twenty-five pounds, each three fourthsof a pound Englifh, and the livre 2|d. about ll. 9s. per ton).
Labour.
Nice. —Summer, 30 f. (is. 6d.) Carpenter and mafon, 40 /*. (2s.)
Coni. —Summer, 14/ Winter, 1 of. (6d.) Mafon, 25/I
Savigliano. —Summer, 12 f. Winter, ic if. Farm fervants wages, about too livres,(510 a year, befide their food, which confifts of three pounds or four pounds of bread,according to the feafon, a foup maigre, a polenta (a maize pudding), &c. &c. Duringthe fummer, they add cheefe and a little fmall wine, with a fallad ; and in harvefl timea loup of good wine, which they call merendon , but they then work twelve hours aday.
Turin . —Summer, 1 if. Mafon, 25f. Carpenter, 277!
Milan to Pavia. —Summer, 22 \f (8d.) Winter, 10 f. (3|d.) Manufacturers, 40 f..Labourers pay 7 livres (at yd. Englifh) for a cottage, and a very little garden.
Mozatta. —Summer, 12 f. Winter, ic f
Lodi. —Summer, 20 f. Winter, 12 f Elarveft, 3 of. Mowing, 20 f. a day j a goodband mows five pertiche a day.
Verona. —Summer, 30/. (9d.) Winter , 20 f. (6d.)
Vicenza . —Summer, i6f. Winter, 14/ Mowing, 30/I
Padoua. —Summer, 2 $f. and wine. Mowing, 2 livres (is.) a day: wheat, 3 livresditto. Winter, 1 6/1
Venice. —Summer, from 30/i to 40 f. Mafon, 4 livres : the loweft in the arfenal*3 livres a day.
Ferrara. —Summer, 25 baiocchi (is. 3d.) Winter, 12 baioc .
Bologna. —Summer, 12 baioc. and 2 bocali of wine, each three pounds four ounces.Winter, 10 baioc. (6d.) In harvefl, to 2o baioc. Half a day, of four oxen and twomen, 5 paoli (2s. 6d.) Manufacturers earn, from 5 to 20 baioc. a day. The womenthat fpin hemp, 3 or 4 baioc.
Florence. —In the filk mills of Florence, they are now (November) working by hand,for want of water. The men earn 3 pauls (is. 4fd.) A girl of fifteen, 1 paul( 5fd.)In the porcelaine fabrics of the Marchefe Ginori, common labour, 2 or 3 pauls. Painters,.4! pauls. In fummer, 1 § paul and food. In winter, 1 paul and ditto* To plough a
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