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difcoveries. Our art of writing- and printing, is the mofl arts 

 efficacious means of preventing the entire oblivion of many ufeful 

 obfervations,, experiments,, and difcoveries, in each branch of 



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human knowledge. But had mankind lived difperfed in the 



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woods like favages or h 



or had they 



ally rambled 



over 



great 



with their herd 



would have been equally 



poffibl 



ay np- fo- valuable and fo immenfe a treafure 



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increafe it fo conilantly, and to make the advantages, arifmg from. 



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their ufe fb eafy, and fo common to every individual. The cul~ 

 tivation of fuch vegetables as ferve for food to mankind, enables 



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us in an efpecial manner, to form numerous focieties. Many trades 



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and mechanical arts, want the joint efforts of many arms, to give; 

 them that perfedion, of which they are capable y and the more 



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each art and trade is fubdivided into fmaller branches, the greater 

 is the probability of bringing it to perfedion- and maturity. It is 



therefore evident that no other than 



numerous focieties, in 



countries rich in fuch produdions as are necelTary for food and- 

 raiment, are beil calculated for the greateil improvements, and 

 moft likely to promote the progrefs of arts and fciences, and 

 their various branches.. Egypt, on account of its happy conflitution,. 



caufed by the N/k's overflowing every year the flat country, became 



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very early the feat of agriculture, and cultivation of all kinds of 

 vegetables,, and for that reafon pafloral life was laid afide, and 



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