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A SHORT 



ACCOUNT 



OF THE 



CHINESE HUSBANDRY. 



FE W countries can boaft: the pofTeffion of 

 fuch a variety of different natural ad- 

 vantages, as not to fland fometimes in need of 

 the affiftance of others. 



This imperfe&ion feems to be the only tie 

 by which civil focieties are kept together : but 

 in China nature feems to have followed a dif- 

 ferent mode, for of this empire we may juftly 

 fay, that it can exift by itfelf. 



Its 



