FOOTNOTES:
[1] The author of a long letter to the "Edinburgh Reviewers," published in the National Intelligencer.
[2] The climate of Italy is now warmer than it was in the Augustan age, which Buffon ascribes to the draining of great tracts of swampy lands in Germany.
[3] "Un Romain meme le plus indigent rougiroit de cultiver la terre." Bosc.
[4] "Two thirds of Tuscany consist of mountains." Vol. viii. p. 232. Geographic, Mathematique et Phisique: See also Forsyth's remarks, p. 80, where are detailed the principal causes of her prosperity. "Leopold," says he, "in selling the crown lands, studiously divided large tracts of rich but neglected land, into small properties. His favourite plan of encouraging agriculture consisted, not in boards, societies, and premiums, but in giving the labourer a security and interest in the soil—in multiplying small freeholders—in extending the livelli, or life leases, &c. &c.
[5] It is among the most important covenants of a Tuscan lease, that one third of the ground be annually worked with a spade.
[6] Geographic, Mathematique, &c. Article Italie.
[7] Idem. Article Helvetia.
[8] It appears from Varro Dere rustica and the letters of Cassiodorus, that the Goths introduced into Spain the subterranean granaries, called Siilos, and the art of irrigation. The former are now exclusively used in Tuscany, and Cato's precept, 'Prata irrigua,' &c. shews whence their knowledge of the latter was derived.