The Quarterly Journal of Agriculture, Vol. 7

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Excerpt from The Quarterly Journal of Agriculture, Vol. 7: June, 1836-March, 1837So far back as 1575, -as we are informed by the Reverend Mr Townsend in his Travels through Spairi, ' a schedule of ques tions had been addressed to all the prelates and corregidors of that country, by Philip IL, a copy of which he had men at Bar celona. A report was required on no less than fifty-seven heads, relating chie¿y to geography, natural and civil history, agricul ture and mineralogy, together with several others purely statis tical. It is evident from these queries, that Philip wished to gain a knowledge of the internal state of his kingdom but Mr Townsend was not able to find out any papers containing the corresponding answers, and, as no notice of the inquiry is taken by any of the historians of the period, it is probable that the scheme was never generally followed out.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.