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North America: its agriculture and climate : containing observations on the agriculture and climate of Canada, the United States, and the island of Cuba / by Robert Russell
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INDEX.

Rose, Cherokee, 263.

Rotation of crops in Louisiana, 268.Rotation of crops in Virginia, 153.Rotation of trees, 79, 158, 260.

Rust and mildew in wheat, 43, 71, 72.

St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans, 254.

St. Charles River, valley of, 68.

St. Hilaire, 61.

St. Hilaire, hill of, 62.

St Hilaire, Major Campbell's mansion,61.

St. Johnsburgh, 12,13.

St Lawrence, 55, 58.

St Lawrence, banks of the, 65.

St Lawrence, flats of, 60, 61, 62, 71.

St. l^awrence rapids, 55.

St Louis Hotel, New Orleans, 255.

St. Martins, Isle of Jesus, 63.

Sale of farm-stock near Montreal, 59.

Sale of slaves, 255.

Salt given to cattle, 28.

San Martin estate, Cuba, 197, 209-212,241.

Sandstone, 108.

Sandstone, Old Red, 19.

Sandstone, Potsdam, 56.

Sandusky, 96.

Sangamon, county o£ 117.

Santa Rosa estate, Cuba, 197, 222.Saratoga springs, 18.

Saratoga to Albany, 19.

Savannah, 168.

Savannah, exports, 168.

Savannah river, 170, 172.

Savannah swamps, rice produce of, 175.Savannah, temperature of, 183.

Savannah, vegetation in vicinity of, 184.Saw-mills, 68.

Scioto, 124.

Scioto bottoms," 124,125.

Sea breeze, 342, 343.

Sea-island cotton, 163, 166, 167.

Sheep, 17, 43, 124.

Sheep, Leicester, 49.

Shorthomed cattle, 90.

Silurian formations, 26, 65.

Simcoe, Lake, 39.

Slave booths, 277.

Slave dealers, 300, 301.

Slave w drivers," 226, 237.

Slave labour in factories, 295, 296.

Slave labour, produce of, 182.

Slave labour, produce of, in Cuba, 237.Slave labour, Dr. A. Smith on, 137.

Slave labour, culture of wheat and Indiancorn by, 153, 154.

Slave and free labour, 135,147, 155.

Slave and Free States contrasted, 289-291.

Slave States, stationary condition of^ 290.Slave trade, 227, 228, 229.

Slave trade, opinion in the South as tothe opening of, 162.

Slavery, barriers to the extension of,289.

Slavery, causes tending to the extinctionof, 139, 156.

Slavery in Delaware, 140.

Slavery in Kansas, 147.

Slavery in Missouri, 144-146.

Slavery, prospect of abolition of, 293,294.Slavery, separation of husband and wife,278.

Slavery, strength of, 143.

Slavery upheld by tobacco cultivation,140-148.

Slaves, breeding of, 136.

Slaves in Cuba, 224-232.

Slaves in Cuba, mortality of, 228.

Slaves in Delaware, 140.

Slaves, dwellings of, 161, 264, 273.Slaves, emancipation of, 233-237.

Slaves, expense of maintaining, 180.Slaves, health o£ on rice grounds, 179.Slaves, hiring of, 151. v

Slaves, hours of labour, 225.

Slaves, increase of, 137, 154, 156, 266.Slaves, instruction of, 262.

Slaves, manumitted, 237.

Slaves, price of, 135, 140, 162, 180, 188,228, 255, 278.

Slaves, price of, in Louisiana, 274.Slaves, rations of, 152,166,180,266,273.Slaves, sale of, 255.

Slaves, selling spirits to, 158.

Slaves, treatment of, 225-230, 264, 266.Slaves, treatment of, in Cuba, 213.Slaves, treatment of, in Louisiana, 273.Slaves, treatment of, on rice plantations,180.

Slaves, treatment of, how regulated, 279.Slaves, value (aggregate) of, in theUnited States, 293.

Slaves, hired, wages of, 136.

Slaves, hired, wages o£ in cotton fac-tories, 152.

Smith, Adam, on slave labour, 138.Smith, Adam, on slavery, 231.

Smith, Capt., on Italian irrigation, 252.Snakes, 61.

Soap-stone, 196.

Soils in Alabama, 283, 297.

Soils of Canada, 70-71.

Soils of Cuba, 195, 196.

Soils of New York State, 34, 35.

Soil, physical condition of, 261.

Soldiers, Spanish, 199.

South Carolina, 162-167.

South wind, 315-317.

South-east winds, disappearance of, 333.Southerly winds, 371.'

Southern grasses, 269.

Southern States, exports and imports of,290, 291.

Southern States, produce of ludian corn,178.

Spaniards in Cuba, 239, 240.

Spanish soldiers, 199.

Spies in Havannah, 203.

Spirits, restrictions on the sale of, 158.

; Spirits, selling of^ to slaves, 158.