380 TRAVELS THROU&H LOWER CANADA : 
"be a greater proof than that it continues to 
yield plentiful crops, notwithstanding its being 
worked year after year By the French Cana¬ 
dians, without ever Being manured. It is only 
within a few years back, indeed, that any of 
the Canadians have begun to manure their 
lands, and many still continue, from father to 
son, to work the same fields without intermis¬ 
sion, and without, ever putting any manure 
upon them, yet the land is not exhausted, as 
it Would be in the United States. The manure 
principally made use of by those who are the 
best farmers is marl, found in prodigious quan¬ 
tities in many places along the shores of the 
River St. Lawrence. 
The soil of Lower Canada is particularly 
suited to the growth of small grain. Tobacco 
also thrives well in it; it is only raised, how¬ 
ever, in small quantities for private use, more 
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than one half of what is used in the country 
being imported. The Canadian tobacco is 
of a much milder quality than that grown in 
Maryland and Virginia ; the snuff made from 
it is held in great estimation. 
Culinary vegetables of every description 
come to the greatest perfection in Canada, as 
well as most of the European fruits : the cur¬ 
rants, gooseberries, and raspberries are in par¬ 
ticular very fine; the latter are indigenous, 
and are found in profusion in the woods; the 
