Lectures on Roman husbandry, delivered before the University of Oxford; comprehending such an account of the system of agriculture, the treatment of domestic animals, the horticulture &c., pursued in ancient times, as may be collected from the Scriptores rei rusticae, the Georgics of Virgil, and other classical authorities, with notices of the plants mentioned in Columella and Virgil; . PLOUGH DRAWN BY TWO-HANDED PLOUGH. JytOTri/ w J-HeAj-aru J<y-mJr oZ Am£s Ao. dp a/ujMAuxsvv Jj/iynxaA^A). ] ROMAN HUSBANDRY. 97 the act of drawing was the next obvious stage inthe progress of
Lectures on Roman husbandry, delivered before the University of Oxford; comprehending such an account of the system of agriculture, the treatment of domestic animals, the horticulture &c., pursued in ancient times, as may be collected from the Scriptores rei rusticae, the Georgics of Virgil, and other classical authorities, with notices of the plants mentioned in Columella and Virgil; . PLOUGH DRAWN BY TWO-HANDED PLOUGH. JytOTri/ w J-HeAj-aru J<y-mJr oZ Am£s Ao. dp a/ujMAuxsvv Jj/iynxaA^A). ] ROMAN HUSBANDRY. 97 the act of drawing was the next obvious stage inthe progress of improvement, and this also wesee exhibited in another of the sculptures on thisgrotto, where the same rude implement as beforeis represented, dragged along however by twooxen, whilst a man follows, whose business is toforce down the point of the instrument into thesoil. The use of oxen would call for another modifi-cation in the form of the machine, for it now be-came necessary to direct it, as well as to keep itsteadily fixed in the soil; and for this purposethe handle was first furnished with a ring, butwas afterwards made double; by which lattercontrivance the husbandman was enabled to actupon the plough with both his hands, and thusnot only to force it more deeply into the soil, butalso to direct it in a straight course. We have thus come to a plough not very dif-ferent from what is now used in
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