( 374 ) 



by a cottager, 125. Mr Marshal's account of the rife an4 

 practice of it, ibid. 



Dioclefian refufes to leave his garden to accept of the emr 

 pire, 51. 



Diftillation afFefts the price of provifions by the quantity of 

 grain it confumes, IQI. A third of all the barley pror 

 duced in Britain ufed for this purpofe, ibid. 



Donaldfon's melancholy account of the prefent ftate of farm- 

 ing in England^ 58. On the bounty on exporting corn, 

 88. On the increafing price of butcher meat, 102. 



Draining may produce incredible improvements, if properly 

 managed, 246. Its expence very final! , in comparifon 

 of the advantages ariiing from it, 299. 



Drill-barrow, a proper infbrument for fowing lint-feed, 

 215. 



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Early fowing attended with many advantages, 7, 85, 142, 



143- 

 Earth probably convulfed at the univerfal deluge, 234. 



Why its inhabitants are fhorter lived than before that e- 

 vent, ibid. Has probably undergone confiderable chan- 

 ges by means of internal fires, 235. Remarks pn Dr 

 Button's theory of it, 237. 



Edinburgh, account of the country betwixt it and Stirling, 

 2.22. The water running from its ftreet capable of fer- 

 tilizing much more ground than it does at prefent, 328. 



Egypt formerly produced vaft crops by the overflowing of 

 the Nile, 281. Was celebrated for its excellent flax 

 for the fame reafon, 296, Savary's account of the agri- 

 culture of the Egyptians, 302. Of their fchemes for 

 diftributing the waters of the Nile properly, 307. 



Emigrations to America whence they proceeded, 342. 



Exportation of corn almoft entirely ceafed in Britain, and 



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