. Rudimentary treatise on agricultural engineering . l, and pushing it in frontof it. The plough of Asterobothnia, in Scandinavia, is oftendrawn by one man, and is little more than one of the ancientscratching-tools first used in Egypt, and represented upon theimages of Osiris. The plough of the Morea of Greece is simi-lar to the fluke of an anchor, and is drawn by tvro asses or onehorse. The Syrian, the Persian, and the Indian and Chineseploughs are all of the same character, being merely scratch-ing implements, and scarcely deserving the name of ploughs. The annexed cut represents the modern
. Rudimentary treatise on agricultural engineering . l, and pushing it in frontof it. The plough of Asterobothnia, in Scandinavia, is oftendrawn by one man, and is little more than one of the ancientscratching-tools first used in Egypt, and represented upon theimages of Osiris. The plough of the Morea of Greece is simi-lar to the fluke of an anchor, and is drawn by tvro asses or onehorse. The Syrian, the Persian, and the Indian and Chineseploughs are all of the same character, being merely scratch-ing implements, and scarcely deserving the name of ploughs. The annexed cut represents the modern plough of is engraved from the original sketch kindly lent me forthis purpose by my friend, Mr. J. Telbin, and was drawnfrom nature by him, while making sketches in Spain for his THE PLOUGH. 27 Panorama of the Campaigns of the Duke of Wellington. Ihave preferred giving a cut of this plough to any other, asI could rely on its accuracy, and it is interesting, as showingthe extremely low state of agriculture in Spain at the present Fig. moment, it being impossible that any efficient system ofhusbandry can be carried out where such a rude implementas this forms the principal feature ; and it is not only in theplough tbat the modern Spaniard is so far behind, even theancient Eoman farmer, much more the modern scientificagriculturist, for Mr. Telbin described to me the manner ofthrashing, as he saw it practised in Spain in 1850, and whichis not one bit in advance of the old custom of treading outthe corn by the feet of oxen. The plough was first intro-duced into Britain by the Romans, and there are many rudedrawings in existence, representing different kinds of of these are very similar to the Castilian specimenshown in the cut, while others, used by the Saxons, areshown as having wheels, and in several cases the horses arerepresented as fastened to the plough by their tails, a bar-barous custom that existed in Ireland as late as 1634, for anact of the Ir
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