The Plough-Wright's Assistant

Excerpt from The Plough-Wright's Assistant: Or, a Practical Treatise on Various Implements Employed in Agriculture
The art of tilling and pulverizing the ground is of very remote antiquity; coeval with, if not prior to, history itself. With the instruments, however, which the antients employed for that purpose, we are not well acquainted, as their construction has not been clearly transmitted to posterity; so that mankind, it would appear, had, for many ages, been much more eager to learn and practise the destructive arts of war, than the useful arts of peace; history furnishing us with descriptions and figures of various warlike engines, which were antiently employed in battering down castles and fortified cities, whilst the useful implements of husbandry have been greatly overlooked, or rather almost entirely neglected.
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