Travels Through Holland, Flanders, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Lapland, Russia, the Ukraine, and Poland, in the Years 1768, 1769, and 1770; In Which Is Particularly Minuted, the Present State of Those Countries, Respecting Their Volume 3 (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. 1772 edition. Excerpt: ... a fort unknown in England: I rode into a field where a crop was taking up, and great numbers were as large as the body of a quart bottle; Lnever faw fuch before. They freely gave me a few of thefe large ones to take away for feed j they are planted by flices in the fame manner as ours: the peafants here think that lands of moderate fertility do for them. Such a potatoe, I mould apprehend, might, for feeding cattle, be made of very great advantage to the hufbandry of England; they yield from twelve to fifteen hundred bumels per acre. The 8th I rode to Kwafowa, a large village, the diftance about forty miles. This country is, in fome places, a continued level plain; in others it 4s variegated with.gentle hills, which never rife-into we' moun-mountains, bat are cultivated to the topis; Hemp and tobacco are common crops through the whole, and alfo fome flax, but not iri equal quantities. All the country is divided into fmall eftates, or rather farms, cultivated by the owners; though I am told that in fome parts of the province to the fouth, where I have not been, there are large eftates belonging to the nobles, and that thofe parts are not near fo well peopled or cultivated as thefe parts; which is a ftrong proof that much of the good hufbandry met with in the Ukraine is owing to the peafants being owners of their lands, and vaflalage almoft unknown in the province. It cannot be doubted but the Em-prefs may bring the crown lands of Ruflia, on all the frontier of Poland into as flourifh-ing a ftate as parts of this province, if fhe encourages foreign tattlers with all the fpirit flie has hitherto fhewn, fince it is in her power to give them all the advantages which the inhabitants of the Ukraine enjoy. They have, it is true, a noble country, equal, I...