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They have no mutton or beef, except what comes from France .
The poor live chiefly on vegetables and a little pork; their labour 0.0f. a day.
Leave Gerona.—Fine malz, planted thin, with good cabbages under it: this is afyftem which promifes well, but cabbages here are only for people, and not for cattle.Three meafures and a half make a journal, and a pair of oxen plough three meafuresa day; buy their oxen in the French mountains at a year old. Their hills are eitherwood or cultivation, but mixed with part rocky walie. Crofs feme hills which con-tain a great deal of wade, but fee a broad valley to the right; all inclofed and wellcultivated ; to the eye rich ; houfes fcattered.
At Marenia, iron 4/I or $f. per pound of fixteen ounces. The road up a hill;twenty or thirty women giving it a winding dire&ion, by levelling earth ; on inquiry,find it is done by the communities, and that they earn nothing; hence it is by corvees.Enter a wood of cork-trees, many of them barked half way up; the texture of this treeis remarkable, it feems formed of layers of bark, one under another.
The country now generally cultivated; the fields ploughed, but have had a crop.Some well-planted olives, ploughed under. All the corn we fee is wheat; as to barley,it was cut and threlhed the firft week in June, and the land ploughed and fownwithfontething elfe.
From Gerona to Calderoles, three hours and a half, generally cultivated; but wadesfcattered, and mountains every where in fight. The courfe here is,
j. Barley , left to weeds, &c. for catttle.
2. Wheat and millet, or French beans.
3. Oats or barley, and maiz for cattle.
No fallow, or phang ; French beans are called phafols.
Leaving Calderoles, the country all cultivated ; many olives, and under them vines ;all well inclofed ; no wade.
PafsBafera: a torrent has here dedroyed a vale half a mile broad; pafs it by a ferry.Country now neither fo rich nor fo well cultivated, as on the other fide of that town.Maiz planted at fix feet, and two rows; French beans in the intervals; olives fcat-tered, but the maiz very poor under them. Country more poor and doney, yet butfew wades. Olives and many tall pines. Wades with pines; the fea two miles to theright, and the ridge of mountains in the front, feems to end abruptly at it. Manyvineyards, and planted with olives; all under culture, and well inclofed with acaciahedges ; feveral with ditches to them.
The vale of Figuera bounded finely by the mountains; many olives and vines, and agood deal of corn, but neither foil nor cultivation equal to what have palled ; the for-mer is more of a done bradi. Reach Figuera.
The 2 id left Figuera, and breakfaded at Jonquieras . F,nter the bottom of themountains very foon ; pafs through many olive grounds; the trees are large, and dandabout fixteen ieet afunder ; foil good red loam, but doney ; no watering. A quart of oil,two and an half pounds of twelve ounces, fells, retail, for a pefeUa. Olives bear onlyevery other year. Our guide fays, he knows a tree in Arragon, which yields fromfifty pounds to eighty pounds for a crop. In thefe twelve miles to Jonqukras, \inesfcattered all the way on the hills; fome few olives ; many cork-trees, latterly : much cul-tivation, but a good deal of wade alfo. French beans in rows, and ploughed betweenwith oxen. Soil all the way a granite fand.
The fil'd leading feature of the minutes is the immenfe quantity of mountains andother wades, which are found in every part of Catalonia . We travelled about three
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