Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c20.40
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c20.40
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c20.40
I must repeat that I have seen in India the most abundant crops ‘the corn standing as thick on the ground as the land could well bear it’; fields neat, clean and generally without a weed. Infinite pains are taken to extirpate these, and several ingenious instruments have been contrived for the purpose.