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Wheat Sowing; questions of early or late and of thick or thin 

 sowing; quantity of seeds per acre; return per acre; gradually 

 declining yield at successive periods . . . 182-184 



Prices of Wheat and Kent of Land at various periods of Roman 



history ; rising Prices and declining Rents in the later periods 184 



Declension of Roman Agriculture; its causes traced . 184-188 



Distinction between Roman and British modern Agricultural Sys- 

 tems ; exhausting and self-sustaining Processes . 189-195 



Observations on the Condition of our British and Gallic Ancestors 



and their Agriculture, derived from Roman Authors . .196 



