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Denmark, and many of the courts in Germany, 

 followed the fame example: Woollen manufac- 

 tures were encouraged, and his Danifh Majefty fcnt 

 three perfons into Arabia Felix to make remarks, 

 and bring over fuch plants and trees as would be 

 ufeful in hufbandry, building, and rural affairs. 



The Dutchy of Wirtemburgh al Co, a country 

 by no means unfertile, but. even friendly to corn 

 and pafturage, has contributed its afiiftance to- 

 wards the improvement of agriculture, having 

 more than thirty years fince publifhed fourteen 

 ceconomical relations at Sturgard. 



Nor mud we forget the very afliduous atten- 

 tion of the learned in Leipfic and Hanover to this 

 great art of fupporting and rendering mankind 

 happy, wealthy, and powerful. During the rage 

 and devaluation of a long war, they cultivated the 

 arts of peace; witnefs the Journal a" Agriculture 

 printed at Leipfic, and the Recueils d* Hanover 

 printed in that city. 



Even Spain, conflitutionally and habitually in- 

 active on fuch occafions, in fpite of all their na- 

 tural indolence, and the prejudices of bigotry, 

 invited Linnaeus, with the offer of a large pen- 

 lion, to fuperintend a college founded for the 



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