A View of the Lead Mines of Missouri Including Some Observations On the Mineral
A View of the Lead Mines of Missouri Including Some Observations On the Mineral
Schoolcraft Henry Rowe
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Wheat, rye, oats, flax, and hemp, are also raised with advantage. Tobacco is an article 158 i ^eently introduced, but is found to succeed well, and the lands are said to be as well adapted to its growth as those of Kentucky and Virginia. Cotton is raised in the southern part of the territory for family use, but is not an advantageous crop for market. The climate and soil are also adapted to the growth of the sweet or Carolina potatoe, and to fruit trees of various kinds. The peach and the apple... are most generally cultivated. Of wild fruits, the woods afford abundance, among which, the grape, percimmon, papaw, pecan, and filbert, are conspicuous. Some varieties of the grape are delicious, and they are very common at the mines, where the inhabitants prepare a wine from them, which has a pleasant flavour, and is a cooling drink in summer*. 3. Political Divisions, Population, and Principal Towns. Missouri is divided into sixteen counties, named and situated as follows : St. Louis, \ Franklin, Cooper, Howard, Bounded on the Missouri and the Mississippi, and oc- St.
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