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1^4 RECOLLECTIONS OF
one can grow, manufacture and export what he likes without
restraint.
The cultivation of tobacco, which was already practised by
the Arabs, has received great extension since the French oc-
cupation. Plants have been introduced from Havana, Mary-
land, Java and Manilla, but the indigenous species termed
chebli succeeds best. It is mostly bought by the Imperial
manufactory to make halfpenny cigars, the consumption of
which in France is enormous.
The annual production of tobacco may be estimated at ten
thousand tons, besides fifteen hundred tons of cigars manu-
factured at Algiers and Oran by smart cigaritas, imported
from Seville and Madrid.
"When the French took possession of Algeria, they found
cotton cultivated there by the Arabs in the plains of Habra
and Sig. In order to stimulate this branch of industry,
Government granted for the first years a-prize of twenty
thousand francs to the best cotton grown in the Colony.
This system has been discontinued, but the colonists require
no such stimulants, for they produce excellent cotton, chiefly
seansland, and their exports which now amount to eight
thousand bales, tend to increase every year. M. du Mesgnil
exhibits the best samples; after his, we may name those of
Messrs. Dubourg, Guyonnet, Herzog & Co., and Lescure.
Flax and hemp grow spontaneously in Algeria ; two
Species of the former are largely cultivated, the white-
flowered Sicilian for its seeds, and the blue-flowered Riga
for its filaments;
The populations of Northern Africa have at all times
considered their flocks as their principal riches. The merino
one can grow, manufacture and export what he likes without
restraint.
The cultivation of tobacco, which was already practised by
the Arabs, has received great extension since the French oc-
cupation. Plants have been introduced from Havana, Mary-
land, Java and Manilla, but the indigenous species termed
chebli succeeds best. It is mostly bought by the Imperial
manufactory to make halfpenny cigars, the consumption of
which in France is enormous.
The annual production of tobacco may be estimated at ten
thousand tons, besides fifteen hundred tons of cigars manu-
factured at Algiers and Oran by smart cigaritas, imported
from Seville and Madrid.
"When the French took possession of Algeria, they found
cotton cultivated there by the Arabs in the plains of Habra
and Sig. In order to stimulate this branch of industry,
Government granted for the first years a-prize of twenty
thousand francs to the best cotton grown in the Colony.
This system has been discontinued, but the colonists require
no such stimulants, for they produce excellent cotton, chiefly
seansland, and their exports which now amount to eight
thousand bales, tend to increase every year. M. du Mesgnil
exhibits the best samples; after his, we may name those of
Messrs. Dubourg, Guyonnet, Herzog & Co., and Lescure.
Flax and hemp grow spontaneously in Algeria ; two
Species of the former are largely cultivated, the white-
flowered Sicilian for its seeds, and the blue-flowered Riga
for its filaments;
The populations of Northern Africa have at all times
considered their flocks as their principal riches. The merino