To all these improvements may be added an assiduous attention to mines and fisheries, which, by employing a multitude of laborious hands, serve to increase the pleasures of the rich and the subsistence of the poor.
The elegant treatise of Columella describes the advanced state of the Spanish husbandry under the reign of Tiberius; and it may be observed, that those famines, which so frequently afflicted the infant republic, were seldom or never experienced by the extensive empire of Rome.

The accidental scarcity, in any single province, was immediately relieved by the plenty of its more fortunate neighbors.
[Footnote 93: It is not improbable that the Greeks and Phoenicians introduced some new arts and productions into the neighborhood of Marseilles and Gades.] [Footnote 94: See Homer, Odyss.l.ix.v.

358.] [Footnote 95: Plin.Hist.Natur.l.

xiv.] [Footnote 96: Strab.Geograph.l.iv.p.

269.