This page has been validated.
15
of Memel, Konigsburg, and Dantzig, considerable supplies of hemp and flax are received; likewise much flax manufactured into yarn.
Let two articles of cultivation be selected for consideration, out of the number that will hereafter offer: viz. hemp and flax.
1st. A new rich soil cannot be otherwise than well suited for their cultivation.
2nd. The climate and temperature will also be suited, because these articles are grown in Russian Poland, the Ukraine, Austria, and Italian States, and in New Zealand,[1] of a peculiarly fine quality. Yorkshire and Ireland likewise produce excellent flax.
- ↑ That the Settler may know there is no deception in these representations, he can have the means of ascertaining the quality of hemp and flax grown in New Zealand and likewise the hemp or grass of Manilla, now becoming the favorite article for cordage in America.
