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THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



Francois de Carles, my grandfather. Returning from a campaign in 

 Italy, where he had seen how much the culture of the mulberry en. 

 riched the population, he resolved to transplant this industry into the 

 heart of Cevennes, where were his estates. He proceeded in this way : 

 He made plantations, and, in order to extend them, he did not hesitate 

 to uproot the chestnuts, those old nourishers of the ancient Cevennols. 



Fig. 14. 



Larva, Pupa, Cocoon, and Moth, of Silk-worm. 



To water the mulberries, he constructed ditches and aqueducts ; then 

 he forced, so to say, the peasants to take these improved lands at 

 their own price and on their own conditions. In this way he alienated, 

 almost all his land, and singularly diminished his fortune ; but he en- 

 riched the country. The results speak too distinctly to be misunder- 

 stood. You shall judge by the figures. 



