IN THE ISLAND OF CORSICA. 397 



have done it, our troops had already made themfelves 

 mailers of them. 



Corfica might be made a place of refuge to the un- 

 happy fchifmatical Greeks, who labour under fo many 

 oppreffions in the Levant, and have long been lighing 

 after a fecure and quiet abode. The colony of Carghefa 

 would be the fruitful parent of numerous fettlements, 

 and the example of activity and indullry fet by thefe 

 fugitives might be a fpur to the emulation of the other 

 Coriicans, or roufe them at leart from their prefent 

 indolence and lloth. 



The poor Acadians, who adhered to the crown of 

 France, and refufed to bend their necks to the yoke of 

 England at the lad treaty of peace, languifh in Poitou 

 and are a burden to the government, without any cer- 

 tain fupport. Certain privileges granted them would 

 enable thefe diftreffed families to render the defart 

 tracts of Corfica populous and productive. 



The ill and abounds in excellent firs and pines, of 

 large growth, and inferior to none for the purpofes of 

 fhip-buikling. The foreft of Aiton is an inexhauftible 

 plantation of beautiful trees. They had this reputation 

 fo long ago as the time of Dionyfio Affro : witnefs the 

 following verfes : 



Nulla tamen tellus latiffima robora fylvas 

 Sic habilis generat. 



Better treatment and better culture ; and Corfica 

 would yield good wine and excellent oil. The mul- 

 berrv-tree thrives here to admiration, and filk of a 

 pretty good quality is made. . Formerly the Cornx-'.".^ 

 paid their tributes in wax ; . the culture of bees is there- 



fore 



