27. The last method is the most advantageous, but it supposes
the country already rich.
This method of securing lands is the most advantageous both
to proprietors and cultivators. It is universally established
where there are any rich cultivators, in a condition to make the
advances necessity for the cultivation. And as the rich
cultivators are in a situation to bestow more labour and manure
upon the ground, there results from thence a prodigious
augmentation in the productions, and in the revenue of the land.
In Picardy, Normandy, the environs of Paris, and in most of
the provinces in the north of France, the lands are cultivated by
farmers; in those of the south, by the metayers. Thus the
northern are incomparably richer and better cultivated than the
southern provinces.
