Excerpt from Italian Irrigation, 1852, Vol. 1: A Report on the Agricultural Canals of Piedmont and Lombardy
The mission to examine the classic land of irrigation of which the results are given in the following pages, was undertaken by me, under instructions from the Honourable the Court of Directors of the East India Company. The great works for the improvement of agriculture throughout British India, which of late years have either been completed, or are at this moment in progress of execution, had naturally attracted the attention of the Government of India and its officers to that system of land irrigation which has been so powerful an agent in placing the plains of Northern Italy, even from the earliest historical period, among the richest on the face of the earth.
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