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111.1 PAL INTELLIGENCE.

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TIMM TIE teaisitTFl37t.
STATISTICAL )(CHOIR OT Tlta OLT•STSILIIT Of
THE LYS.
During some years back, all the nations of Eurrre
have busied themselves in taking surveys. The ac-
counts of their population are made up with care,
the state of their agriculture, their cammerce, and
their arts, is described with precisi,;n, acid the so-
vereigns seem to dispute, who shall understand most
minutely all tb it concerns their suhjeds. Does
France remain behind; who can exhibit such riches
and such means of prosp:irity ? Undoubtedly none ;
and the publication of the general surveys, which
e. ince the real state of this vast empire, and per-
mit curiosity to tisplore it in every way, is the Ma
reply to those, who assert that France is exhraisted
by her Ung contentions.
This etc -Bent w k is continued wlth alacrity,
and the attereion with surveys art• .rim.
piled by t'•e dirsdion of his 'nCV, the 11/41. is-
ter of tat. Interior, e ill r-flese eter al honour nu li.s
adminieratinn. The Memoirs furnished be t•.s
Pre:e9s will give th m a j Ist title • . rv, tnee
are made ei a as ranch precisio , discernment, • id
taste, as that of tire Lys coil:tetra by NI. de Wiry, the
present Senator.
1 he department of the Lys„ a, well as the Welgic
coast, is taken in from the sea. -1 chain of heleicks,
or sails' beds, previrst • the country from the intio-
da isms of its terrible neigh ur ; am s. g*t !..ich
bitriicks are inittrispersea Floods, or marshes, which
are more or less it mid up, and an immense plain in-
tersper.ed with woods and heat's, is the only bowl.
daries of this depar meat las leas,'': from north to
;putts is 82 kilometres; its lire .Bth worn east to west
73, aid th surface measures IA: kilometres. or
30.2.9,528 a pens.
At the hor2ers tithe sea a light hed of vegetable
mould coven the sand s mid advancing into the cowl.
try, the earth •:comes firm, sompad, and extreme-
ly' fertiie. It is mssgin d that in a country so very
flat there are but few minerals, and those small, Mat
peat, shells. and the roots rf vegetables, are found
in great abundance on the surface.
The riv r Scheldt cep irate* this department from
that of demmappcs in a course of IWO myriarnetrcs,
and is navigable. The Lys, which rues through
this department, is five myii.i-netres, and is equally
navigable. The Iser and the Yperle are rather Ca.
tials than rivers, and a great numb. : of other can Ca:
interseutl the cuu.rtry and greatly facilitate commu-
nisation.
After giving us the large features of the geogra-
phy or the coma' y, M. Vtry proceed-to his curious
researches on pop u'atisn
This depatsment contained, in f!'131., abont
444,260 in the year ^ (1539),
the increasn in 18 years appears to be 17,199 souls.
In this number of inhabitants they reckon U,638 mi-
l' lit try, 8.5,055 married men, 91,045 married wo-
men, 131, 710 bays, and 116,1 girls. The pop-
lation of men, according to this calculations is
3,300. It is remarked, that the papttlition at the
country since its union augmented the espence of
the cities, one of the causes of which is the increased
numbers of landholders, who now amount'''to
58,230, which, in 1789, wet- only 51,220, and the
dim; onion of the numbers of immerse fortunes, and
of i d iduals who lie al solely on their hereditary
estates. The births %sere in nine years in the pro-
' onion of one to 291; the deaths, as one to 561 ;
marriages, as one to j natural children to legiti-
mate, as one to 37} ; anJ the general population,
as one to 1.033 ; their numbers have increased one-
third since I P 49, ansl the children abandoned amount
yearly to no more than 70.
M. Viry afterwards describes the manners and
customs of the new Fench, and gives a crowd of
details as interes•ing by their singularity AS they are
by the manner in which they are described. He
gives a history of the country, and then pro-
ceeds to an excellent description of the principal ci-
ties. He 'hews us the iellaterice that the union with
France has had upon that part of the Ilelvetic. and
demonstrates that the condition of the people is much
amended by it.
The fourth chapter gives us the stare of agricul-
ture in that country, where it seems to have attained
the highest state of perlection. The see, is fat or
sandy, and by means of manure, which the inha-
bitants manage to multiply, the sarsly get-rends pro-
duce an abundance of rye, oats, buck wheat, and
vegetables of all kinds. The lands which are not
it for this kind of culture, arc planted with fir trees,
oak, beech. aspiii, 3cc. !cc. They rai:.e in the ~:rung
and fat lan Is wheat*, barley, fl or. wild cabbage,
tobiecus sad hops& and the meadows, both open

and enclosed, afford an ereoVent pasturage fir cit.
tie. They have, besides, in harvest tint,. A great
quantity of (tots fit t'r fattening
The farms ire of two descriptions ; one k nd are
hired by the rich cultivators. an I are c of
about 60 to 109 beehive. These great improvers
are in the (.)west and fattest country. wnere four
horses are necessary to each plough. The light
lands are hired by the less-. farmers. and consist of
from twists four hectares, and ate cultivat.d by those
who borrow the ploughs of their richer neightsonri
to forward their labours. The horses are almost the
only anirn al employed, and are of a beautiful kind
their horneutaqle and sheep are v ry mime:on!. and
very fine. Their fruit trees are of all kind*, and
very plenty, which ray Is, supportsi in a vtil, whf:h
is fertile. even without th, assistance of agf.culttuv.
The foil wine is an es; in; use ;
Of more than 23 millM.ts of a.-res of uncultivated
fouls wnich are in th it iboartrurnt 7 trillions yield
rye and wheat. "flie produce of tie fist amount .L 1
is the year 9 (ISM) to 763,914 qnitrals, shit of
whets. to 562,160quintals. 0 its and barley arn. Tun'
to 713.130 iuintAls. The value in twm.r of t
four sorts of grain is estimated at Id mlllinns' the
produce of Otis and hemp is 34 minions. the of •ny
6 millions. that of timber 1,164,672 francs. aad all
other er tins an.l vq.taltlcs to 13; millions of francs.
The veil of .11 these yields 14 millions of revenue.
We otvzht here to add the produce arising front
ca.tle. whicih amounts to 10 millions, the valise of
the stoLk of which C3:6110l he less than 23 millions.

The produes of the 1 tai which ate set apart for
exportation, amount to 4.510,0:/0 yriag-ammes of
ram. But. -r more than 1 ; raw wool. and
a..;rrat coaittire c.f horses and beeves.
The I.P.Juce of agncultme is not the only source
of riches in the department of the Lys. Industry
has muit:!ilied many others. They possess manu-
fsetor;es or clot', VI all kinds, as table linen, cofton
cloth. w ollen cloth, lace, Geneva distilleries, besides
a nitrrhei o. biewertes, tsn-yards, starch manufac-
tories, felt-ni rs. See. The only Manufaaured
produ.2s expor:e 1 richer ter France, or other coun-
tries, ate the chiths of Bruges and of Courtrari
where they m Ike more than 40 thousand of the 51i
thousand v hich are annually fabricated, and the
v.due of which a foams to nearly four millions.
Tne table linen exported ansounts to 1,500,000
fr inc., all the making of lace employ. an infinite
mi.titude of h..als of all ages and sexes. The
ciref produce of the manafiaories which myelin-
sumed by themselves, is cotton,cloth, leather,. Ge-
ne:is, and many others.
The distilling of Geneva is of the utmost import-
anci ; it t ikes Anna tliy .5,5.13,950 myriagrammes • f
rye, which. -.11-.n made int-) Geneva, yield a son of
14.4.55,4:it trance, and which, it sold in the corn,
would produce only 7,439,080 francs, besides, from
the distillers grains, of each 150 casks of Geneva,
rie.e are .50 cows fed. They h.tve good reason to
ho e that the distillery of Geittil.l will increase every
.1 .. the produce of which, wh..-11 expe.:ted, yields
vet y teat advantages.
To sato up all, we find that the department of
the Lc c.tn exp,rt the pr..duce of her soil for a very
considris de sum, and for a mu h more cnnsider-
ah'... • tun the p.o.i.ice if het itijus!ry. The balance
01 commerce i.ugh- then to he much in her favour ;
:.er new cw,nta,niis, and the energy Oven to
net industry by ail ashive and paternal Government;
.rill yet more inclease the .tale of her prosperity.

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