18/36 1 .-- W.] [Footnote 98: Plin.Hist.Natur.l. xv.] [Footnote 99: Plin.Hist.Natur.l. xix.] [Footnote 100: See the agreeable Essays on Agriculture by Mr.Harte, in which he has collected all that the ancients and moderns have said of Lucerne.] Agriculture is the foundation of manufactures; since the productions of nature are the materials of art. Under the Roman empire, the labor of an industrious and ingenious people was variously, but incessantly, employed in the service of the rich. |