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did its work tolerably. The wheat in fheaves is yet ill the field, but the ftubbles allploughed, a narrow flip only left, on which the wheat remained: this (hews good atten-tion to the fucceffion of crops.

Prices of Provifions, &c. at Barcelona .

Bread, 4/ and a fraction per pound, of twelve ounces.

Mutton , a.iif per pound, of thirty-fix ounces.

Pork, 45/ per pound, of twelve ounces.

That of the poor people very little lefs; but they buy the foldiers’ bread, whhh comescheaper; they live very much on ftock-filh, &c.

Hams fometimes 3 or 4 pefettos , or (hillings, per pound, of twelve ounces. Wine, cflor the bottle.

Common day wages are i$f. French ; fometimes rife to 3the very lowed, 22 x f.Stocking weavers earn 3 $/.

Cream-coloured oxen in carts, their horns fawn off to the length of fix inches, twoyoked abread, and one mule before. A pair of good oxen fell at 25I. Englifli. Valefrom a quarter to half a mile broad.

All the corn in the country is left in the field till it is threfhed, and they fay it nevertakes hurt. A hill cut through, thirty feet deep, for the road, and walled on each fide.The fea clofe to us on the right all the way ; and the vale I fpeak of is between that andthe hills : fome of them are fandy, and planted with vines, which yield per journal fourcharges, the charge felling at 13 or 14 pefattos, and a journal for 300 Spanilh livres ; thisis the journal, felling for 35I. 8s. 9d., and producing about 2I. 14s., very inadequate to -the value of the land ; there are great quantities of fruit trees of all forts.

At Gremata; after which a vale for a mile and a half, or two miles, the foil fandy,and much cultivation. On the hills many vines. Some corn without fallows ; it is allcut, but not carried, and the land all ploughed.—Vines.

A wheat ftubble ploughed up, and the land fown with buck-wheat, which is now up.

Part of a vale highly cultivated, but a great part wafte, though on the fame level tothe eye, but much fpoiled by a torrent, for a quarter of a mile broad ; it is entirelyruined, yet there is no water now, nor any channel, all being level; in fuch cafes asthefe, and indeed in molt others, induftry, united with good capitals, would remedy theevil. Eight men working a fandy field, by w'ay of digging with an inftrument verycommon here, a fort of hoe, fixteen inches long, and nine broad, with a handle fo Ihort,that the body is bent very much in ufingit. Vale two or three miles broad, and uniteswith an opening in the mountains. French beans often under maiz, but that cropmuch thinner, and nothing gotten by it. Some very fine orange-trees, near twenty feethigh, large Items, and thick round umbrageous heads. All this vale before Maturo isunder a very fine cultivation. They have much lucern ; and an article of attention Ihad not before obferved, was, tubs made on purpofe for carrying the riddance of priviesand urine to their fields.

Hemp yields ten quintals the journal. Vineyards give three, four, and five chargesof wine per journal, and fell for 200 or 300 Spanilh livres the journal: other lands, notirrigated, from 100 to 150 livres. ' For above a league vines on fand ; very little othercultivation ; the vale is turn miles broad ; fells at 150 livres Spanilh the journal; on thehills, and near the fea, vines ; mountains cultivated imperfectly almoft to the top; butthere is much wafte. Houles fcattered every where.

The cultivators are metayers , that is, they pay a portion of the crop inftead of rent:the produce is divided into three parts; two for the farmer, and one for the landlord,in which cafe the farmer is at every expence whatever. Some vineyards are let at front

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