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... Cultivation in America — Food of Ancient Egyptians - Roots and Fruits preceded Cereals Chinese Agriculture - Moon - Worship among Agricultur- ists - Lunar Influence on Plants - Agricultural Implements— Bushman Digging - Sticks - The ...
... Cultivation in America — Food of Ancient Egyptians - Roots and Fruits preceded Cereals Chinese Agriculture - Moon - Worship among Agricultur- ists - Lunar Influence on Plants - Agricultural Implements— Bushman Digging - Sticks - The ...
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... cultivation ; his various forms of speech ; his laws , habits , manners , customs , weapons , and tools ; his archaic markings , as also his pictorial remains , his tombs , his ideographic and phonetic or alphabetic writing , down to ...
... cultivation ; his various forms of speech ; his laws , habits , manners , customs , weapons , and tools ; his archaic markings , as also his pictorial remains , his tombs , his ideographic and phonetic or alphabetic writing , down to ...
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... cultivated , with the exception of maize , were new to American soil , and maize had never been seen in Western Europe . If we go back farther still we can trace man's agency always changing the face of nature , exterminating some ...
... cultivated , with the exception of maize , were new to American soil , and maize had never been seen in Western Europe . If we go back farther still we can trace man's agency always changing the face of nature , exterminating some ...
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... cultivated cereals , wheat , barley , rye , seem to have been of Asiatic origin . It is not , however , necessary to sup- pose that all these advances in civilization were brought to Europe at the same time , for a way having once been ...
... cultivated cereals , wheat , barley , rye , seem to have been of Asiatic origin . It is not , however , necessary to sup- pose that all these advances in civilization were brought to Europe at the same time , for a way having once been ...
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... cultivate the sweet potato . Mr. Van Reenan , who had been sent from the Cape to inquire about these ship- wrecked whites , describes them as then ( in 1790 ) old He says he would have taken the three women . 1 Mr. Kay noticed heaps of ...
... cultivate the sweet potato . Mr. Van Reenan , who had been sent from the Cape to inquire about these ship- wrecked whites , describes them as then ( in 1790 ) old He says he would have taken the three women . 1 Mr. Kay noticed heaps of ...
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