( 1) 
multiplied and protected against invasion or inter- 
ruption, (1) and highways leading to these, every 
where established, and of a character to call forth be- 
nediction and admiration. (2) 
Nor were these regulations confined to the proper 
territory of Rome; what of her own policy was good, 
she communicated to her neighbors; what of their’s 
was better, she adopted and practised herself.’ Her 
arts and arins were therefore constant companions : 
wherever her legions marched, her knowledge, prac- 
tices and implements followed; and it is to these we 
are to look for the foundation of modern agriculture 
im Italy, France, Spain, &c. 
mn > Ces 
SECTION II. - 
Of the Actual State of Agriculture in 
Kurope. | ' 
Tuts is very different in diderent states, and even 
in different parts of the same state: its greater or less 
degree of perfection, depending on causes physical, 
or political, or both. Where a state, or part of a 
state, from soil, climate, manners, or geographical po- 
sition, draws its principal subsistence from the fishery 
or the chase, as in the more northern parts of Eu- 
rope, agriculture will not succeed; when a state is 
from any cause both essentially maritime or manufac- 
. (1) Assemblies of the people on days designated for fairs, and on subjects other 
than those of trade, were not lawful. 
(2) The Appian way, yet remains the wonder and reproach of modern times. 
