100 Agriculture. [Chap. Vlll. 



Mr. Achard, of Germany, ^vliosc experiments have 

 been considerably aided, aiid carried to a greater 

 length, by Mr. Noldechen, of the same country. 



The intraduction of the culture of Rice into the 

 United States, to any extent, is one of the honour? 

 of the period under consideration. In 1693 a ves- 

 sel from Madagascar brought some of this grain 

 to Charleston, in South Carolina. The captain gave 

 such a description of it to some of the inhabitants^ 

 that they determined to try the cultivation of a ve- 

 getable which appeared congenial to their soil. 

 For a number of years they made little progress in 

 it, not properly understanding the nature of the 

 soil, or the means of culture favourable to its 

 growth, and having little prospect of commercial 

 advantage from it, to animate their exertions. But 

 since the restraints and discouragements of colonial 

 servility have been taken off, the cultivation of this 

 grain has become much more extended, not only in 

 South Carolina*, but also in North Carolina and 

 Georgia, and is now to be regarded as a principal 

 stajile of those states +. 



Cotton was first ciiltivated in America, to any 

 extent, in the century under review. As it hap- 



* The cultivation of vice in Soutli Carolina lias undergone several 

 revolutions in the course of tlic last thirteen yeais. In the year 

 179^^^ ^7^79 tierces of this article were exported from that state. 

 In 1 ;'t/2, 102,235 tierces were exported. Since tijat Lime the quan- 

 tity e:<j)ortfcdhas been, with some variations, generally diminishing. 

 T:; IbOO the number of tierces amounted only to (i47(j<.). 



t Attem{)ts have been made, on a .small scale, to cultivate rice 

 m the state of Maryland, and nut without success ; but the object 

 has nut been pursued to any profitable cxtcjit. Sec Rordliiv's 

 Hushavdrj/. 



