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slight sketches will often (iODvey a clearer idea of the 

 object than long and minute description. Nor should 

 we neglect altogether another class of buildings, partly 

 private and partly public in their nature, which often con- 

 vey much information with respect to the character and 

 progress of a people . I mean their tombs and other 

 sepulchral monuments erected to the memory of the dead 

 or for the purpose of preserving their bodies. It may be 

 observed that few things indicate more directly the pro- 



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civilization than the successive changes which have taken 

 place in the style and character of their buildings, and of 

 the arts by which they have been embellished, from the 

 first rude attempts of Druidical and Cyclopean structure 

 to the more elaborate and symmetrical proportions of what 

 may be called the Palladian style. Any information of 

 this description which falls under the notice even of the 

 mo.^t hurried traveller cannot fail to be prodnctive of 

 great interest. 



5. Aariculture. 



— ^The geographer will have numerous 



opportunities, in his examination of a new country, of ob- 

 taining much valuable information on this and its col- 

 lateral subjects, by a little attentive observation and a 

 few concise imiuiries. Amongst the chief points to which 

 ins attention should be directed, we may mention the use 

 of tools and agricultural implements, for the purpose 



either of cultivating the soil or of transporting its produce 

 from one locality to another, the mode of ploughing and 

 preparing the land for different crops, the manner of 

 reusing the crops themselves, of sowing, planting, and 



transplanting, of reaping and gathering in the crops, of 



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