Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c20.84
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c20.84
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18. Mr. Colebrooke’s Statement of Bengal Husbandry. The extraordinary fertility of the soil in Bengal is probably unfavourable to the Hindoo Husbandman. He has always almost a super abundance. In some parts of Poland the natural fecundity of the land produces spontaneous crops of wheat. The consequence is, a most ignorant and unskillful system of husbandry. In Scotland again which owes little to nature, and where nothing is obtained without excessive labour, agriculture is indebted for some of the finest improvements.