Annals of Agriculture and Other Useful Arts Volume 10 - Arthur Young

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. 1788 edition. Excerpt: ... only use of it must have been, to loosen the texture'of his stubborn foil. The only part of my notes'that falls in with your most useful design, is the journal of nty hasty return from Italy, through the Tyrol and Germany, which 'I here subjoin; heartily wishing that it was more to your'purpose, and my reputation: --Such as it is, !however, "I am unwilling to withhold it; being, Dear Sir, Your most sincere well-wisher, And very humble Servant, THQMAS MARTYN. journal of a Return from Italy, through the Tyrtl, and Germany. July 6.--FROM Padua to Vicenza. The country fiat. The crops--corn, maize, hay. The harvest quite finished. July 8.--Vicenza to Verona. Crops--corn, mayz, clover, lucerne, grafs, hemp. In the torrents, near Montibello, a mixture of calcareous and volcanic rolled pebbles.--Abundnnce of silk made and manufactured at both these places. A good good mulberry-tree yields three sacks of leaves, and is worth from three to fix livres; that is, from fifteen-pence to two shillings, for the seasonJuly 12.--From Verona. Country flat, arid well cultivated. Crops--vines, mulberries, corn, maize, and sorghum. The corn got in. Hedges of paliurus or Christ's-thorn. Walls of granitello, and other volcanic stones: towards Volarni, between rocks of red marble. Between Volarni and Bery, abundance of sumach. To Ala. Narrow rallies, with the river Adigc. Mulberries, and tobacco. Pass Monte Baldo, once famous for its rare plants;--now naked rocks. To Roveredo, the valley opens the country rude and wild, with, here and there, cultivation of vines, mulberries, and maize. The mountains strangely tossed about j enormous blocks of limestone scattered thick over the country, and lying in all directions. The road, to Trentstony, by the river Adige, in narrow...