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ORIGIN,&. OF AGRICULTURE.
NS ¢ With this purpose in view, agriculture is here considered, in n of Parr Book: I. As to its origin, progress, and§1. Améng ancient and modern nations. aa: ome present state, 2. Under different geographical, physical, and political circumstances, a5 1. The study of the vegetable kingdom. eeu 2. The study of the animal kingdom. anl- IJ. Asa science founded on 3. The study of the mineral kingdom and the atmosphere. rent 4, The study of the mechanical agents employed in agriculture. i 5. The study of the operations of agriculture. Sey(1. The valuation, purchase, and transfer of landed property. ed to 2. The laying out, or general arrangement, of landed property. sheep 3. The improvement of culturable lands. > III. As an art comprehending 4. The management of landed estates. Ire of 5. The selection, hiring, and stocking of farms. have 6. The culture of farm lands. corn L7. The economy of live stock, and the dairy. Lo r are Selatan s 1. As to its present state. king, IV. Statistically in Britain, 2. As to its future progress. ricul- A Kalendarial Index to those parts of the work which treat of culture and management, points out it and the operations as they are to be performed in the order of time and of the season: and d A General Index explains the technical terms of agriculture, the abbreviations here made use of, and ; a presents an analysis of the whole work in alphabetical, as the Table of Contents does in systematic, order. and- ieerns uiliffs; nds of jumble gaged te and yy and PART L , gives 2 Oe AGRICULTURE CONSIDERED AS TO ITS ORIGIN, PROGRESS, Some AND PRESENT STATE, AMONG DIFFERENT NATIONS, GOVERN- n ra MENTS, AND CLIMATES. retire ces may 1. The history of Agriculture may be considered chronologically, or in connection » to that with that of the different nations who have successively flourished in the different parts d by all of the world; politically, as influenced by the different forms of government which have agricul- prevailed; geographically, as affected by different climates; and physically, as influenced by the characters of the earth’s surface. The first kind of history is useful, by displaying sportant the relative situation of different countries as to agriculture; instructive, as enabling 5; agri- us to contrast our present situation with that of other nations and former times; and nee. the curious, as discovering the route by which agriculture has passed from primitive ages and ne countries to our own,‘The political and geographical history of the art derives its value riche from pointing out causes, favorable and unfavorable to improvement; and countries and ant and climates favorable or unfavorable to particular kinds of cultivation and management. ”. n every |] as se- the offer Jso been ye been nay add, BOOK Tf.&
rial im- HISTORY OF AGRICULTURE AMONG ANCIENT AND MODERKX NATIONS.
Ibyect ot 2. Traditional history traces man back to the time of the deluge. After that catastrophe, ns ane of which the greater part of the earth’s surface bears evidence, man seems to have re- > or is covered himself(in our hemisphere at least) in the central parts of Asia, and to have ae first attained to eminence in arts and government, on the alluvial plains of the Nile. 1e sae Egypt colonised Greece, Carthage, and some other places on the Mediterranean sea; udy a and thus the Greeks received their arts from the Egyptians, afterwards the Romans from selected, the Greeks, and finally the rest of Europe from the Romans. Such is the route by have re- which agriculture is traced to our part of the world; how it may have reached the ,, to our eastern countries of India and China, is less certain; though from the great antiquity of also on their inhabitants and governments, it appears highly probable that arts and civilisation ur early were either coeval there, or, if not, that they travelled to the east fully more rapidly than id és ue they did to the west.:
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3. The early history of man in America rests on very indistinct traditions: there arts and civilisation do not seem of equal antiquity as in Asia; in North America they are *B 2