. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . itted by E. de Candolle,Origine des plantes cultivées, pp. 305-307. Its seeds have been found in the tombs (Loret, La FlorePharaonique, p. 12, No. 20), and a representation of it in the Theban paintings (Rosellini, Monu-menti civili, pi. xxxvi. 2, and text, vol. i. p. 361, et seq.). I have found it mentioned under the nameof dirati in the Papyrus Anaslasi, No. iv., p. 13,1. 12 ; p. 17,1. 4. 7 Wheat, tûut, sûo, is the corn of the north of the inscriptions. Barley is iati, ioti. On the Asiaticorigin of wheat, see E. de Candolle, Origine des plante
. The dawn of civilization: Egypt and Chaldaea . itted by E. de Candolle,Origine des plantes cultivées, pp. 305-307. Its seeds have been found in the tombs (Loret, La FlorePharaonique, p. 12, No. 20), and a representation of it in the Theban paintings (Rosellini, Monu-menti civili, pi. xxxvi. 2, and text, vol. i. p. 361, et seq.). I have found it mentioned under the nameof dirati in the Papyrus Anaslasi, No. iv., p. 13,1. 12 ; p. 17,1. 4. 7 Wheat, tûut, sûo, is the corn of the north of the inscriptions. Barley is iati, ioti. On the Asiaticorigin of wheat, see E. de Candolle, Origine des plantes cultivées, pp. 285-288 ; his conclusionsappear to me insufficiently supported by fact. The Semitic name of wheat is found under the form\amhû in the Pyramids (Maspero, La Pyramide du roi Teti, in the Recueil, vol. v. p. 10). 8 The position which wheat and barley occupy in the lists of offerings, proves the antiquity ofieii existence in Egypt. Mariette found specimens of barley in the tombs of the Ancient Empire THE HOE AND THE PLOUGH. 07. THE EGYPTIAN man, that in many places no agricultural toil is required. As soon as thewater of the Nile retires, the ground issown without previous preparation, and thegrain, falling straight into the mud, growsas vigorously as in the best-ploughed Where the earth is hard it is neces-sary to break it up, but the extreme simplicityof the instruments with which this wasdone shows what a feeble resistance itoffered. For a long time the hoe sufficed ;a hoe composed of two pieces of wood ofunequal length, united at one of theirextremities, and held together towards the middle by a slack cord : the plough, when first invented, was but a slightlyenlarged hoe, drawn by The cultivation of cereals, once establishedon the banks of the Nile,developed, from earliest times,to such a degree as to sup-plant all else: hunting, fish-ing, the rearing of cattle,occupied but a secondaryplace compared with agri-culture, and Egypt beca
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