. 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. ghest degree of perfection in Britain. The modern agricultureof America is copied from that of Europe ; and the same may be said of the agricultureof European colonies established in different parts of the world. The agriculture oft bina, and the native agriculture of India, seem to have undergone no change for many ages Such is the outline which we
. 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. ghest degree of perfection in Britain. The modern agricultureof America is copied from that of Europe ; and the same may be said of the agricultureof European colonies established in different parts of the world. The agriculture oft bina, and the native agriculture of India, seem to have undergone no change for many ages Such is the outline which we now proceed to fill up by details, and we shall adopt the usual division of time, into the ages of antiquity, the middle ages, and the moderntimes. Chap. I. Of the History of Agriculture in the Ages of Antiquity ; or from the Deluge to the Establish-ment of the Roman Empire, in the Century preceding the vulgar JEra. 5. The world, as known to the ancients, consisted of not more than half of Asia, andof a small part of Africa and Europe. During the inundation of the deluge, a rem-nant of man, and of other animals, is related to have been saved on the top ofthe high mountain of Ararat, near the Caspian sea (Jig. I.), and, when the waters sub-. sided, to have descended and multiplied in the plains of Assyria. As they increased innumbers they are related to have separated, and, after an unknown length of time, tohave formed several nations and governments. Of these the principal are those of theAssyrian empire, known as Babylonians, Assyrians, Medes, and Persians, in Asia; of theJews and the Egyptians, chiefly in Africa; and of the Grecians, chiefly in is known of the nations which composed the Assyrian empire ; of the Jews, moreis known of their gardening and domestic economy, than of their field culture ; theEgyptians may be considered the parent nation of arts and civilisation, and are supposedtoliave excelled in agriculture ; and somediing is known of that art amo
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