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Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c20.74

Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c20.74

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c20.74

Note
1. Goguet vol.I p.85.
2. Edinburgh Review No. 67, p. 201.
3. This species of forced service prevails in all despotic Governments. Service against the will was known even in ancient Greece. It was called forced service.
4. See a Journal for 1820, 387
5. See Figures of the Plough and of all these instruments from 55 to 64. [Not included in original.—Editor]
6. ‘When I spoke of three ploughings for sheni (sic) I scarcely allowed enough: they ought to have four or even five, especially if the land be at all heavy.’ Burke’s letters.
7. See a very intelligent agricultural memorandum from Captain A. Robertson.
8. Lucerne, I believe.
9. The history of this experiment must be found in some of the recent dispatches from Bombay. Has it been kept up, or is it discontinued?