INDEX. 



ABerdeen, a fand bank there, removed by the method 

 recommended in this work, Page 288. 

 Acre of land, a fmgle one fufficient for the maintenance of 

 a Roman family, 38, 96, fix times as much now re- 

 quired to fupport a lingle carriage horfe, 100. 

 Agriculture improperly managed by farmers at prefent, 2, 

 Owing to the want of a regular fyftem, ib. 4^ Aftoniih- 

 ing increafe of produce to be expected from adopting fuch 

 a fyftem, n, 12, 138. Firft improved in Britain by the 

 Romans, 38. In what manner it became the general 

 object of European nations, 41. Proper attention paid 

 % to it only by the Chinefe, 45. The only proper method 

 of rendering a country populous, ib. 46. Its other good 

 effects, 51, 52. Is at prefent in a declining ftate in Bri- 

 tain, 56, 6 1, 67. Manufactures encouraged by en- 

 couraging agriculture, 65, 149. Ought to be encoura- 

 ged equally with manufactures, 149. Of the agricul- 

 ture of the Egyptians, 302. 



Alexander the Great conquers Afia, 36. Why his ne- 

 phew King of Epirus could not conquer Italy, 37. 



America, how it might have been kept in fubjection, 23. 

 Loft in Britain, ibid. 



American colonies very expeniivc, and of little ufe to Bri- 

 tain, 21. 



Arts and manufaclure.3 unfavourable to population, 49. 



Athens 



