PAUL AND VIRGINIA. I7 



name of Firginia. " She will be virtuous," faid 

 flie, *' and fhe will be happy : I knew calamity 

 ** only in ceafing to be virtuous. 



When Madame de la Tour was recovered of her 

 lying-in, thefe two little habitations began to wear 

 the appearance of comfort, with the affiftance of 

 the labour which I occafionally beftowed upon 

 themj but particularly, by the affiduous labour 

 of their flaves : that of Margaret, called Domingo, 

 was an lolof Black, flill robuft, though rather ad- 

 vanced in life. He pofTefled the advantage of ex- 

 perience, and good natural fenfe. He cultivated, 

 without diftindion, on the two diftrids, the foil 

 which appeared to him the moft fertile, and there 

 he fowed the feeds which he thought would thrive 

 the beft in it. He fowed fraall millet and Indian 

 corn, in places where the foil was of an inferior 

 quality, and a little wheat where the ground was 

 good. In marfliy places, he fowed rice, and 

 at the foot of the rocks were raifed Giraumonts, 

 gourds, and cucumbers, which delight in climbing 

 up their fides : in dry places, he planted potatoes, 

 which there acquire fingular fweetnefs; cotton- 

 trees on heights, fugar-canes on ftrong land ; cof- 

 fee plants on the hills, where their grains are fmall, 

 but of an excellent quality; along the river, and 

 around the cottages, he planted bananas, which, all 

 the year round, produce large fupplies of fruit, and 



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