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ETHNOLOGY. 



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connected with this transition^ and to observe how far the 

 introduction of agri cultural habits has he^^n connected 

 with agrestic slavery. The change from the free and 

 'vvandering life of pastoral nomades to the toilsome 

 drudgery of the agriculturist k so great a change, that 

 it has probably never taken place except under circum- 

 stances of peculiar kind. The earliest agriculture of 

 most' countries appears to have been connected w'% 

 lavery. In many places there were ' 





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who performed the laborious part. In many instant -^ 

 these were a conquered people reduced to the 



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of serfs. Such were the Sudras of Luiiaj conquered by 

 the twice-born classes. The Helots of the Spartans and 

 perhaps the y^copyoi of the Egyptians were the descend- 



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ants of captives. In every country where the 

 cultivated, as it often is, by a particular tribe, it will be 

 advisable to make accurate inquiries into the history of 



such races. In these the traveller will often find the de- 

 scendants of aboriginal inhabitants, the genuine peop 



of the land, and among* them he will discover th 





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and primitive language of the country, while the lords 

 or feudal masters of the soil, the dominant people, wall 



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country. 



The methods of agriculture anywhere practised should 

 be noted as well as the kinds of errain w^hich are found to 



be in use. The vvhole of the esculent plants u^ed by any 

 tribe of people should be described. Few races of men, 

 however rude and insulated from the rest of mankind, 

 have been found without some exotic vegetables. It has 

 been observed that there is scarcely a hamlet in the most 



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