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CONTENTS
PART I.
AGRICULTURE CONSIDERED AS TO ITS ORIGIN, PROGRESS, AND PRESENT STATE, AMONG DIFFERENT NATIONS, GOVERNMENTS, AND CLIMATES.
BOOK Tf.
HISTORY OF AGRICULTURE AMONG ANCIENT
AND MODERN NATIONS.
Cuap. I. Page
Of the History of Agriculture in the Ages of Antiquity; or from the Deluge to the Esta- blishment of the Roman Empire in the cen- tury preceding the vulgar era--
1. Of the Agriculture of Egypt--
II. Of the Agriculture of the Greeks
Ill. Of the Agriculture of the Jews, and other
Nations of Antiquity=--
Cuap. II.
History of Agriculture among the Romans, or from the Second Century B. C. to the Fifth Century of our era-
I. Of the Roman Agricultural“Ww riters=
Il. Of the Proprietorship, Occupancy, and
General Management of Landed Pro- perty among the Romans
Ill. Of the Surface, Soil, Climate, and other
Agricultural Cire umstances of Italy, during the time of the Romans--
IV. Of the Culture and Farm es of
the Romans
1. Of the Choice of a Farm, and of the Villa or Farmery
2. Of the Servants employed i in Roman Agri- culture
3. Of the Beasts of“Labor| used“by the Romans
4. Of the Agricultural Implements of the Romans-
5. Of the Agricpltural Operations“of the Romans-
6. Of the Crops cultivated, and. Animals
reared by the Romans’-
. Of the General Maxims of Farm| Manage-
ment among the Romans
V. Of the Produce and Profit of Roman Agri-
culture-=
VI. Of the Roman Agriculturists, in respect to
general Science, and the Advancement of the Art“
VIL. Of the Extent to which Agriculture was
carried in the Roman Provinces, and of its Decline--= e
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Cuap. IIT.
History of Agriculture during the Middle Ages, or from the Fifth to the Seventeenth Cen- ae-
. History of Agriculture in aly during the Middle Ages- {1. History of Ag riculture in Fr rance from the Fifth to the Seventeenth Century= Ill. Of the Agriculture of Germany and other Northern States from the Fifth to the Seventeenth Century LV. History of Agric ulture in B sritain from the Fifth to the Seventeenth Century- 1. History of Agriculture in Britain during the Anglo-Saxon Dynasty, or from the Fifth to the Eleventh Century-
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2. Of the State of Agriculture in Britain after the Norman Conquest, or from the
Eleventh to the Thirteenth Century S 8r/ . History of Agriculture in Britain from the Thirteenth to the Seventeenth Cen- tury- 40 4. History of Agriculture from the Death of Henry VILL. in 1547, to the Revo- lution in 1688- 41 V. History of Agriculture in ultra European Countries during the Middle Ages- 47 Cuap. IV. Present State of Agriculture in Europe 48 I. Of the Present State of Agriculture in Italy 7d. 1. Of the Agriculture of Lombardy-&b. 2. Of the Agriculture of Tuscany= yl 3. Of the Agriculture of the Maremmes, or the District of Pestilential Air m= OD 4. Farming in the Neapolitan Territory, or the Land of Ashes 57, II. Of the Present State of Agriculture in Switzerland-- 59 1. Of the Agriculture of the Swiss Cantons ab. 2. Agriculture of the Duchy of Savoy 3 1e7 Ill. Of the present State of Agriculture in France 65 1. Progress of French Agriculture“from the time of Louis XIV. to the present Time 2. 2. Of the general Circumstances of France in respect to Agriculture-- 66 3. Of the common Farming of France- 67 4, Farming in the warmer Climates of France 70 1V. Present State of Agriculture in oe and the Netherlands’- 72 1. Present State of Agriculture in Holland 2b. . Present State of Agriculture in the Ne- therlands go V. Present State of Agriculture i in Germany 87 1. General View of the Agricultural Circum- stances of Germany- 2b. 2. Agriculture of the Kingdom of Denmark, including Greenland and Iceland- 89 3. Agriculture of the Kingdom of Prussia 90 4. Agriculture of the Kingdom of. Hanover 93 5. Present State of the Agriculture of Saxony 95 6. Present State of the Agriculture of the Kingdom of Bavaria 96 . Present State of the Agriculture of the Empire of Austria- ib. VI. Of the present State of Agriculture i in the Kingdom of Poland=- 100 Vil. P. resent State of the Agriculture of Russi 04 VILL. presen State of the Agriculture of Swe- den and Norway 08 IX. Present State of the Agriculture of Spain and Portugal 18} 1. Present State of Agriculture in European Turkey--- 120 Cuap. V. Modern History and present State os Agricul- ture in the British Isles- 122 I. Political History of Agriculture in Britain from the Revolution in 1668, to em pre- sent Time.= 193 PRs vs