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a hint much at the service of our political 

 economists. With respect to the date of the 

 above Egyptian details, as drawn from old 

 authors, some of whom, perhaps, visited that 

 country more than a century since, it may 

 be remarked, that the orientals scarcely ever 

 change their customs, and that in Egypt and 

 Arabia, the manners and habits of the days 

 of tile patriarchs are still generally prevalent : 

 tlience \i is probable, that the same system of 

 hatching fowls, which was common in the 

 days of Father Sicard, prevails at the present 

 time ; nor have I met with an account of 

 any material change, in the books of our 

 more modern travellers. 



De Reaumur, however, in the true style 

 of a projector, thus reasons in support of 

 his favourite scheme, which previously had 

 been honoured with even a still more pow- 

 erful advocate, in the Regent Due clOr- 

 leans. The former demands, — " Why do 

 we not try, then, to make up by art, for the 

 scarcity of what the hens are disposed to 

 give us? The example of the Egyptians, 

 who are so much the better for not depend- 



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