Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c20.12
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c20.12
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c20.12
The figure and power of the instrument must be suited to the soil and climate. The American plough of Rhode Island does not weigh more perhaps than 40 lbs. It has no Coulter and a man can easily carry it in his arms; but it would be absurd to expect that this plough would answer any where but in the lightest soils.