. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. HISTORY OF AGRICULTURE. Part gress till it became a plough has been recognised in a cameo, published by Menestrier, o
. An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles. Agriculture. HISTORY OF AGRICULTURE. Part gress till it became a plough has been recognised in a cameo, published by Menestrier, on which a pick-like plough is drawn by two serpents (Jig. 3. a) : it may be also seen on a medal from the village of Enna, in Sicily, published by Combe (6) ; in a figure given by Spon, as found on an an- tique tomb (c) ; in an Etrus- can plough, copied from a fragment in the Roman col- lege at Rome, by Lasteyrie (d); and as we still see in the instrument depicted by Niebuhr, as used for plough- ing inEgypt and Arabia at the present day (e). What seems to confirm these conjectures is, that the image of Osiris is sculptured with a similar plough in each hand (Jig. 4. abed), arid with a harrow (e) suspended by a cord (J") over the left shoulder. This plough there can be little doubt was used in war as well as in agriculture, and seems to have been of that kind with which the Israelites fought against their enemies the Philistines (1 Sam., xiii. 19. 23.) : it is thought, by some, to be the archetype of the letter alpha (the hieralpha of Kircher) ; and, by others, the sounds necessary to conduct the processes of culture are thought to have founded the origin of language. Thus it is that agri- culture is considered by some antiquarians, as not only the parent of all other arts, but also of language and literature. 11. Whether the culture of com were invented in Egypt or not, all testimonies concur that cultivation was carried to a higher degree of perfection there than in any
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