. 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. opicsis moderated by the winds from the mountains of Tatary. In the southern parts thereis neither frost nor snow, but storms are very frequent, especially about the timeof the equinoxes; all the rest of the year the sky is serene, and the earth covered withverdure. 964. The surface of the country, though in general flat, is much diversified by chai
. 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. opicsis moderated by the winds from the mountains of Tatary. In the southern parts thereis neither frost nor snow, but storms are very frequent, especially about the timeof the equinoxes; all the rest of the year the sky is serene, and the earth covered withverdure. 964. The surface of the country, though in general flat, is much diversified by chainsof granite mountains, hills, rivers, canals, and savage and uncultivated districts, townsinnumerable, villages, and cottages covered with thatch, reed, or palm leaves, and insome places with their gardens, or fore-courts, fenced with rude pales, as in England. 15(i HISTORY OF AGRICULTURE. I. ( fi. 126.) China, Dr. Abel observes, from the great extent of latitude contained in itsboundaries, and from its extensive plains and lofty mountains, partakes of the advan-tages and defects of many climates, and displays a country of features infinitely variedby nature. Every thing artificial, however, has nearly the same characters in 965. The soil varies exceedingly: it is in many parts not naturally fertile ; but hasalmost every where been rendered so by the application of culture and manure for- suc-cessive ages. 966. The landed property of China is considered as the absolute right of the emperor:but the sub-proprietor, or first holder, is never turned out of possession as long as hecontinues to pay about the tenth part of what his farm is supposed capable of yielding ;and, though the holder of lands is only considered as a tenant at will, it is his ownfault if he is dispossessed. If any one happens to hold more than his family can con-veniently cultivate, he lets it to another, on condition of receiving half the produce,out of which he pays the whole of the emperors
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