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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAP. II. AGRICULTURE. No country in Europe is so generally fertile as Spain, or has equal advantages at all seasons of the year. In this region the ancients fixed the site of the Elysian fields, and the gardens of the Hesperides. A country which, from the genial nature of the climate, aided by a superior agriculture, gave rise to those ancient traditions. When the Romans first entered Iberia, they were astonished at the highly productive and flourishing state in which they found many parts of it. The existing industry they encouraged, and Spain became at the same time the granary of their empire, and the nursery of their armies. The northern nations, Mho subsequently took possession of this country, might check, but they did not destroy, that fortunate disposition. As soon as they had parcelled out the lands, they turned their attention to the re-establishment of agriculture. Many of the institutions attributed to the Moors were anterior to the period, when that people took possession of Spain. The subterraneous buildings, for preserving corn, and known under the name of sillos, or granaries, Were not their invention, but were long before in use in the time of Varro, through Betica and other provinces of Carthagena. The canals and sluices for irrigation were carried to such perfection among the Goths, that the most severe laws were enacted for prescribing and preserving the rights respecting them. Whoever turned off the water was bound to pay a large sum for every hour's trespass, or suffer corporal punishment for the offence. This fact is recorded in the code of laws attributed to the Visigoths, and in the letters of Cassiodorus. The same writer speaks of the exportation of grain from Spain, and consequently the quantity raised must have been very considerable at that...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217909990
  • Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Publisher Imprint: Rarebooksclub.com
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 158
  • Spine Width: 9 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 021790999X
  • Publisher Date: 11 May 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 295 gr


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