Education.--Drawing-master.--Other private teachers.--Climate of
England and of Avignon compared.--Degree of heat.--The _bise_ or
north-wind.--Rent.--Society.--Avignon inhabited by provincial
gentry.--Number of French nobility.--Mode of letting farms.--On
what tenure and for what consideration.--Excellent wines of the
Rhone and of Provence.--On the duties upon French wines in
England.--The author sets the example of burning coals at
Avignon.--Dearness of fire-wood.--Domestic economy in
France.--Comparison of expenses in the two countries.--Amount of
savings.--The author's advice on this head is the result of
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