Excerpt from An Address Delivered Before the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture, at Brighton, Oct; 14, 1835 By a long matured theory and practical system of culture, every foot of land was reclaimed, from the bordering deserts, which the fertilizing waters of the Nile could be made to irrigate. Thus the luxuriant valley of that majestic river, in the totality of its lengthened course, was covered with the rich and various products of rural industry, and not only furnished the whole subsistence of a numerous native population, but was rendered for centuries the garden and granary of the world. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.