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Chap. II.—Dress, - . _ gQg
Chap. III.—Art of War, - _ ^20
BOOK III.
PROGRESS IN SCIENCE AND THE HIGHER ARTS.
Chap. I.—Arithmetic, - 252
Chap. II.—Calendar, - - . 235
Chap. III.—Navigation and Geography, - 307
Ch ap . IV.—Medicine—Music, - . 327
BOOK IV.
AGRICULTURE.
Chap. I.—General Remarks on the Husbandry of
the Indian Islands, - - - 341
C h ap . II.—Husbandry of the Materials of Food, 357
Chap. 111.—Husbandry of Articles of Native Luxury,
- - - - 394
Chap. IV.—Husbandry o f the Materials o f Native
Manufactures and Arts* - - 439
Chap. V.—Husbandry of Articles chiefly for Foreign
Exportation, - 472
INTRODUCTION.
T h a t great region of the globe, which European
geographers have distinguished by the name of the
Indian Archipelago, became well known to the
more civilized portion of mankind, and was first
frequented by them much about the same time that
they discovered and knew America. From time
almost immemorial, Europe had, indeed, been supplied,
in the course of a circuitous and intricate
commerce, with some of its rarest productions, but
the very name of the country of those productions
Was unknown ; and, in regard to all knowledge not
merely speculative or curious, our discovery of the
Indian Archipelago is a transaction of history
as recent as that of America. The Indian Archipelago,
at ther*aoment of the discovery of both,
may be advantageously compared even with the
New World itself, to which, in fact, its moral and
physical state bore a closer resemblance than any
other portion of the globe. It was greatly inferior
to it in extent, but in the singularity, utility, va-
vol. r. A