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CHANGE IN MANNERS AND SENTIMENTS. 131;~ofagx:îçulturists: and the change in national manners is become too obviousnot to strike every one. Hence the grave concentrated demeanourso. total1y opposite to the gay frivolity of thirty years pastoHencethflt wish for .peace so anxiously expressed by every man who possessesten acrel). oflanclin fee simple, as we should term it.-But, without digressingonthe.subjeot, let the ûll~geof Languedoc speak for itself.Corn, wine, and oil, are the s~aples of the agriculture ofthese districts.Live.stock* is but ancillary; and in regard to the mulberry and thedelicate insect it maintains 1~,although the gains are considerable andalLclear,jt hardly demands a place in the general vjew.It may ap"papr~.d~~ical,:tbat ~vhat is so important.in statistics should he uU'­n.oticefthle in such an investigation as this; but it is not the less sO•. AfOW of trees t the whole.busiJ.wsscl~~medwhereby consists merely in thepluCking the leapyes. off,with the minute.et cetcras of process, may hediscussed .. apart, for they no way connect with agriculture. The silkcultivation.hasbeen on thedecline in. this part of the wodd, from theextreme delicacy of the insect ;. experience convincing that the mountainoustracts, as for instance Alais, where aspect can he selected, an..swers best for the purpose.In pursuitof information on this most interesting ohject,.agricultur~as.eries of quest,ions was addressed in three ditferent directions,each... Live Stock.-'-The markets in the south here a.t'e supplied..at about the t"ollowing rates:An ()x nt for the butcher, (in English mo~ey). - éB. 13 6 8A fat calf 2 18 4A fat sheep 1 13 4Ahog ] 15 0The sheep vary conl5iderably in Bize; according to the breeds•. Here is seen a taU, large-honed,J()o$e-~ade race,as weIl as its opposite in aIl these rtlspects. These large sheep carry long coarsafleeces.t The sea air is disadvantageous to thesilk~worm. The coconsproduced in a bad sèasou arecoarse, andnot manufacturable.&4