. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. f open deserts and savannas,with a few willows on the rivers. It seems to enjoy a tem-perate but rather cool climate ; but, separated in the middle bythe vast mountains of the Andes, one part of it differs widelyfrom the other. Northward of La Plata, this part of SouthAmerica is covered with wood, and stored with an inexhaustiblefund of large timber
. An encyclopædia of agriculture : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and of the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture. f open deserts and savannas,with a few willows on the rivers. It seems to enjoy a tem-perate but rather cool climate ; but, separated in the middle bythe vast mountains of the Andes, one part of it differs widelyfrom the other. Northward of La Plata, this part of SouthAmerica is covered with wood, and stored with an inexhaustiblefund of large timber: but, southward of that river, there isscarcely a tree or shrub fit for any mechanical purpose; yeteven this seemingly barren country has some good are numerous droves of wild horned cattle, and abun-dance of horses, both originally introduced by the Spaniards. 1246. Of the South American islands, that of Juan Fernandes abounds in pasture, cattle,and woods ; and Terra del Fuego, amidst its horrible snows, exhibits a variety of Falkland Islands contain number of fowls and plants, somewhat resembling thoseof Canada. Georgia is a field of ice, in which, or in any of the other islands, there is nocultivation BOOK II. AS INFLUENCED BY OKOGRAIIIICA t., PHYSICAL, CIVIL, AND POLITICAL CIRCUMSTANCES. I - 17. Agriculture, considered with regard to climate, territorial surface, and society, presentssome features which it may be instructive to contemplate. Whoever has perused withattention the outline which we have now concluded of the field culture of the differentnations of the world, must have a general and enlarged view of that art ; and must ne-cessarily have observed that there arc different species of territorial culture, founded ondifference of geographical position or climate, difference of physical circumstances orsurface, and difference of civilisation or human wants. The object of the present Bookis to characterise these diffe
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