Inquiry into the nature and cause of miasmata, more particularly illustrated in the former and present state of the Campagna di Roma / P. Murphy.

  • Murphy, Patrick, 1782-1847.
Date:
1825
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    coveries; as it is to the attempt of finding out the longitude that navigation owes much of its pre- sent state of improvement, fyc. fyc. The object of agriculture is to assist or improve nature in the quality and quantity of the numerous products, animal, as well as vegetable, which man has found it his interest to cultivate; and which, owing to their number and the great va- riety found in their constitution, frequently require, to such a degree, seemingly opposite principles, to bring them to perfection, that, as St. Pierre, with some justice conjectures, there is not, perhaps, a square league on the surface of the earth, but is more peculiarly adapted, either in soil, in tempera- ture, or both, to the production of some one spe- cies of product, than any other*. To this great diversity of constitution in the products of nature, as well as in soils, and in tem- peratures, in different countries, it is, that agri- cultural science owes its birth; its object, as before mentioned being, to supply by art the de- ficiencies of nature, and thus approximate, as * His words are For my own part, if I might be permitted to hazard a conjecture, respecting the number of distinct species of plants, spread over the earth, such is my idea of the immensity of Nature, and her subdivisions, that I am disposed to believe there is not a square league of earth but what presents some one plant peculiar to itself or at least, luhich thrives there better, and appears more beautiful, than til any other part of the world.—First Study of Nature.