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AND LOWER EGYPT. 2I3
those who live at the bottom of the parched rocks
of Upper Egypt, the most ferocious barbarians on
the globe; but, planted on a soil fertile and smil-
ing, whose freshness aud copious productions
temper the ardour of the climate and the dryness of
the atmosphere, their manners are softened, their
character has lost its asperity : a change to be
ascribed to the happy dispositions of nature, and to
the influence of agriculture, which is, still more
than commerce, the first instructor of nations, and
the most direct method to draw them from a state
of barbarism, and to stimulate them to a rapid and
assured progress towards civilization.
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those who live at the bottom of the parched rocks
of Upper Egypt, the most ferocious barbarians on
the globe; but, planted on a soil fertile and smil-
ing, whose freshness aud copious productions
temper the ardour of the climate and the dryness of
the atmosphere, their manners are softened, their
character has lost its asperity : a change to be
ascribed to the happy dispositions of nature, and to
the influence of agriculture, which is, still more
than commerce, the first instructor of nations, and
the most direct method to draw them from a state
of barbarism, and to stimulate them to a rapid and
assured progress towards civilization.
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