STATE OF AGRICULTURE IN EUROPE. 13 



Nor were these regulations confined to the proper 

 territory of Rome ; what of her own policy was 

 good, she communicated to her neighbours ; what 

 of theirs was better, she adopted and practised her- 

 self. Her arts and arms were therefore constant 

 companions : wherever her legions marched, her 

 knowledge, practices, and implements followed ; 

 and it is to these we are to look for the foundation 

 of modern agriculture in Italy, France, Spain, &c. 



CHAPTER II. 



OF THE ACTUAL STATE OP AGRICULTURE IN EUROPE. 



THIS is very different in different states, and even 

 in different parts of the same state : its greater or 

 less degree of perfection depending on causes phys- 

 ical or political, or both. Where a state, or part 

 of a state, from soil, climate, manners, or geographi- 

 cal position, draws its principal subsistence from the 

 fishery or the chase, as in the more northern parts 

 of Europe,* agriculture will not succeed ; when a 

 state is from any cause both essentially maritime 

 or manufacturing, as in England,f or principally 



* Is not the author somewhat at fault here ? Norway is the 

 only country in the north of Europe where the business of fish- 

 ing is extensively followed, and it is only in the portions of that 

 continent, so-far north as to be unfitted by climate for agricul- 

 ture, that wild animals abound. 



f The agricultural condition of Great Britain, and particularly 

 of Scotland and of Prussia, has been greatly changed and im- 

 proved within the last 20 years ; and even Prussia has apparently 

 commenced in earnest in enlightening her agriculture, by estab- 

 lishing schools of scientific and practical instruction. The great 

 Prussian school of Moegelier, under the direction of Von Thaer, 



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