A
TREATISE
ON
ancient and modern
HUSBANDRY.
chap.i,
Of the Villa.
IN the firſt ages of the commonwealth, the villas of the Romans were very plain and ſmall, ſuitable to the plain manners of the people, and adapted to the ſmall size of their farms: But, when they had extended their empire, when they had become rich and luxurious, and
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