Footnote 60: On xii mónðum ðú scealt sillan ðínum þeówan men vii hund hláfa ⁊ xx hláfa, bútan morgemettum ⁊ nónmettum: in the course of twelve months thou shalt give thy þeów or serf, seven hundred and twenty loaves, besides morning meals and noon meals. Sal. and Sat. p. 192. We should perhaps read seven hundred and thirty, which would give daily two loaves, probably of rye or barley. Compare the allowances mentioned in the Rectitudines Singularum Personarum. Anc. Laws. Thorpe, i. 432 _seq._ Footnote 61: So from the earliest times: “Potui humor ex hordeo aut frumento, in quandam similitudinem vini corruptus.” Tac. Germ. 23. Caesar, it is true, denies that agriculture was much cultivated among the Germans, or that property in the arable land was permitted to be permanent[62]: and, although it seems impolitic to limit the efforts of industry, by diminishing its reward, it is yet conceivable that, under peculiar circumstances, a warlike confederation might overlook this obvious truth in their dread of the enervating influences of property and a settled life. There may have been difficulty in making a new yearly division of land, which to our prejudices seems almost impossible; yet the Arab of Oran claims only the produce of the seed he has sown[63]; the proprietor in the Jaghire district of Madras changes his lands from year to year[64]: the tribes of the Afghans submit to a new distribution even after a ten years’ possession has endeared the field to the cultivator[65]; Diodorus tells us that the Vaccaeans changed their lands yearly and divided the produce[66]; and Strabo attributed a similar custom to one tribe at least of the Illyrian Dalmatians, after a period of seven[67]. ----- Footnote 62: “Agriculturae non student: maiorque pars victus eorum in lacte, caseo, carne consistit: neque quisquam agri modum certum aut fines habet proprios; sed magistratus ac principes in annos singulos gentibus cognationibusque hominum, qui una coierint, quantum, et quo loco visum est, agri adtribuunt, atque anno post alio transire cogunt. Eius rei multas adferunt causas; ne, adsidua consuetudine capti, studium belli gerundi agricultura commutent;” etc. Bell. Gall. vi. 22. Footnote 63: The administration of Oran. Times newspaper, Aug. 24th, 1844. Footnote 64: Fifth Rep., Committee, 1810, p. 723, cited in Mill’s Brit. India, i. 315. Footnote 65: Elphinstone’s Caubul, ii. 17, 18, 19. Footnote 66: Diodorus, v. 34. Footnote 67: Strabo, bk. vii. p. 315. -----