152 TRAVELS THROUGH NORTH AMERICA : 
afterwards left waste. Many of the .planters 
are at length beginning to see the absurdity of 
wearing out their lands in this manner, and 
now raise only one crop of tobacco upon a 
piece of new lamb then they sow wheat for 
two years, and afterwards clover. They put 
on from twelve to fifteen hundred bushels of 
manure per acre at first, which is found to he 
sufficient both for the tobacco and wheat; the 
latter is produced at the rate of about twenty 
bushels per acre. 
In some parts of Virginia, the lands left 
waste in this manner throw up, in a very 
short time, a spontaneous growth of pines 
and cedars; in which case, being shaded from 
the powerful influence of the sue, they re¬ 
cover their former fertility at the end of fif¬ 
teen or twenty years; but in other parts 
many years elapse before any verdure appears 
upon them. The trees springing up in this 
sponi ancons manner, usually grow very close 
to each other ; they attain the height of fif¬ 
teen or twenty feet, perhaps, in the same 
number of years; there is, however, but very 
little sap in them, and in a short time after they 
are cut down they decay. 
Tobacco is raised and manufactured in the 
following maimer : When the spring is so far 
advanced that every apprehension of the re- 
turn of frost is banished, a convenient spot of 
