on their becoming more induſtrious they began their Agriculture by cultivating with ſharp Stones and pointed Sticks a few Pulſe or Roots about their Cabins; and that it was a long time before they knew the Method of preparing Corn, and were provided with Inſtruments neceſſary to raiſe it in large Quantities; not to mention the Neceſſity there is, in order to follow this Occupation and ſow Lands, to conſent to loſe ſomething at preſent to gain a great deal hereafter; a Precaution very foreign to the turn of Man's Mind in a ſavage State, in which, as I have already taken notice, he can hardly foreſee his Wants from Morning to Night.
For this Reaſon the Invention of other Arts muſt have been neceſſary to oblige Mankind to apply to that of Agriculture. As ſoon as Men were wanted to fuſe and forge Iron, others were wanted to maintain them. The more Hands were em-
