11s.8d., or about ten per cent.

This is little.

In Poland, and some other great agricultural countries, the land pays a net revenue of twelve per cent., which represents at least twenty per cent.gross.The Roman soil would produce the same if the Roman government did its duty.
The country is divided into cultivated and uncultivated lands.

The former, that is to say those planted with useful trees, enriched by manure, regularly submitted to manual labour, and sown every year, lie chiefly in the provinces of the Adriatic, far beyond the ken of the Pope.

In this half of the States of the Church (the most worthy of attention, and the least known) twenty years of French occupation have left excellent traditions.