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ledge and their difcoveries. There is a tr: 

 nology altogether peculiar to this art, and which, 

 being unintelligible to all but miners, requires a 

 particular ftudy. 



VII. (6.) bc venery, which comprehends not 

 only the art of hunting beads and fowls, the 

 method of knowing their tracks, and fumets or 

 dung, of defeating their artifices, and of regu- 

 lating the attendants on the chace, as the luintf- 

 men, hounds, &c. but alfo the knowledge of 

 woods and forefts, of what relates to their growth 

 and prelervation ; the ufe of the feveral kinds 

 of trees they produce, &c. There are number- 

 kfs authors in all languages, who have wrote on 

 the venery, at the head of whom is the emperor 

 Frederic II. A peculiar terminology forms 

 alfo an eflential article in this art. 



VIII. (7.) Political economy y as well for the 

 city as the country, has been reduced for fbme 

 time pad, in Germany, into a particular fcicncv : 

 a number of authors have wrote large works on 

 it, and, in fome univerfuies, profeflbrs have been 

 eftablifhed who make complete courfes in it, 

 under the title of collegium a:conomicum y urbanttm 

 & rufticum. It happens, however, unfortunate- 

 ly, that thefe profeflbrs are commonly men who 

 in their ftudies difcufs thole matters in a me- 

 thodical manner, which the hufbandman, the 

 fhepherd, and the fiflierman, learn far better, 

 though more (lowly, by a daily practice: the 



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