Excerpt from The Diary of a Desennuyee, Vol. 2 of 2 Expansion - still expansion One wide, vast plain (with the exception of the monticule at Cas sel) from Calais to Lille; fertile, well cultivated much flax, now cut and drying; much tobacco, with its rich broad leaf; and long avenues of lofty abele trees shading the road. A hard featured but healthy-looking peasantry; their bright and many-coloured garments cleaner than their hands and faces, just as our cotters are clean in their persons, and dirty and tattered in their attire. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.