Note 920 — Chapter V
Reading edition
Id. ib. iii, 170-74. England is found learning from Switzerland on this side. In the volume of translations entitled Foreign Essays on Agriculture and the Arts, published in 1766, the majority of the papers are by Swiss writers. Hume ("Of the Populousness of Ancient Nations," Essays, ed. 1825, i, 410) writes that in Switzerland in his day "we find at once the most skilful husbandmen and the most bungling tradesmen that are to be met with in Europe."