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The Government of the Province of Quebec 

 has already made some effort to show the peo- 

 ple how this may be done. The river-valleys 

 but a short distance from the sea not only 

 have a much milder climate, as is shown by the 

 forests and the bird-life, but often contain an 

 abundance of fertile soil in natural meadows. 

 Thorough drainage operations would convert 

 large areas of bog into arable land and at 

 the same time rid these places of the pest of 

 mosquitoes. In the Amur district in Siberia 

 similar bog country has been made productive 

 even in regions where the ground is perma- 

 nently frozen to a great depth.^ 



The gardens of Mr. Morrell at Blanc Sa- 

 blon, of the Eudist fathers at Natashquan, and 

 of M. Johan Beetz at Piashte Bay, described 

 in these pages, are examples of what can be 

 accomplished directly on the coast. Even so 

 long ago as the eighteenth century, Captain 

 George Cartwright set an example which 

 might well be imitated by the Labradorians 

 of to-day. He not only raised in his house in 

 winter cress and mustard as a salad and pre- 

 ventive of scurvy, but he made many careful 

 • See Through Siberia, by Fridtjof Nansen. 

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