Annals of Agriculture and Other Useful Arts Volume 8 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1787 Excerpt: ...as it can be; great numbers of fishing boats and nets, with rows of good white houses on the sea-side y and while the men are active in their fiiheries, the women are equally busy in making lace. Dine at Gremah j aster which, a vale for a mile and half, or two miles, the foil fand and much cultivation. On the hills many vines. Some corn without fallows; it is all cut, but not carried, and the land all ploughed--vines. Many large villages and scattered houses all the way. Pass Meliasa, a fishing town j they falt great quantities for Barcelona j their nets are very great. Houses all the way. Whereever an opening is in the mountains, more distant ones are seen, and still higher j a circumstance, which unites with.he vast view from ftjontserrat, and and shews that all behind is mountainous, and that the vales are no where large. A wheat stubble ploughed up, and the land sown with buck-wheat, which is now up. Part of a vale highly cultivated, but a great part waste, though on the fame level to the eye, but much spoiled by a torrent, for a quarter mile broad; it is entirely ruined, yet there is no water now, nor any channel, all being level; in such cases as these, and indeed in most others, industry, united with good capitals, would remedy the evil. Eight men working a fandy field, by way of digging with an instrument very common here, a sort of hoe 16 inches long, and 9 broad, with a handle so short, that the body is bent very much in using it. Vale two or three miles broad, and unites with an opening in the mountains. French beans often under maiz, but that crop much thinner, and nothing gotten by it. Some very fine orange-trees, near 20 seet high, large stems, and thick round umbrageous heads. All this vale before Maturd, is under a very fine cultitivation. T...