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art. (1) Like their own Nile, their population had 
its overflow, which ‘colonised Carthage and Greece, 
and carried with it the talent and intelligence of the 
mother country; The former of these states, though 
essentially commercial, had its plantations, and so 
highly prized were the agricultural works of Mago, 
that when Carthage was captured, they alone, of the 
many books found in it, were retained and translated 
by the Romans. -A similar inference may be draw 
from the histoy of Greece ; “for assuredly that art coild 
not have been either tink tow or neglected, which ‘so 
jong employed the pen and the tongue of the great 
Xenophen. (2) Tt must however be admitted, that of 
the ancient nations, it is only ‘among the Romans; 
at we find real and multiplied evidences of the pro 
éss of the art ; facts, substituted for conjectures and 
inferences. ‘Cato, Varro, Columelta, Virgil and Pliny, 
wrote on the subject, and it is from their works we 
derive the: oe brief om, of onion hus- 
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‘The plough, | ‘hes great hewmen of cstiathand 
yee was well known and generally -used among 
them: it was drawn exclusively! by horned: éattle. 
Of fossile manures, we know that they used: dime and 
probably marte, (8) and that those of animal and. ve- 
getable basis, were, carefully ‘collected. »> Attention 
to this suibijett; made _ of the! national — ; 
: 
(1) The best practicsl iMustration of this opiniomis found in the means of, the Po 
where. “ every rood of éarth maintains its man.’ 
(2) Kenophen wrote seyeral treatises on husbandry /and gave public lectures on it 
at Scillonte, whithera weak and wicked government had banished him. i 
(3) For the first past of this assertion we have the authority of Pliny ; forthe lat. 
ter, the Practice of their coluntes both iu Gaul and Britain, 
