FOOTNOTES:
[1] The best practical illustration of this opinion is found in the valley of the Po—where "every rood of earth maintains its man."
[2] Xenophon wrote several treatises on husbandry, and gave public lectures on it at Scillonte, whither a weak and wicked government had banished him.
[3] For the first part of this assertion we have the authority of Pliny; for the latter, the practice of their colonies both in Gaul and Britain.
[4] Of this last, there were three kinds, neither of which is now cultivated.
[5] The lupinus albus of Linneus: "many other vegetables are used for this purpose, particularly the bean, but do not answer as well as the lupin; when this is heated in an oven and then buried, it forms the most powerful of all manures." T. C. L. Simonde. Tableau de L'agriculture Toscane.
[6] Tanus and Numa were deified for services rendered to agriculture.
[7] Cicero de officiis. L. 2.
[8] This continued till the time of Marius.
[9] As much as he could plough in a day.
[10] To cut or destroy in the night the crop of his neighbour, subjected the Roman to death.
[11] Terminus was among their gods.
[12] Assemblies of the people on days designated for fairs, and on subjects other than those of trade, were not lawful.
[13] The Appian way, yet remains the wonder and reproach of modern times.
[14] Not Members of the last Congress.
[15] Coldest.
[16] Warmest.