The Journeys of Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, Volume 1 Page: 297 of 330
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LA SALLE
ily got by trade with the West Indies, as the
European nations have done in Terra-firma,
where they are neighbors to Louisiana.6 Besides,
the great quantity of wool with which
the cattle of the country are loaded, the vast
prairies everywhere afford means of raising
flocks of sheep, which produce twice a year.
Tlhe various accidents that befell us prevented
our searching for the treasures of
this country: we found lead quite pure and
copper ready to work. The Indians told us
that there were rivers where silver mines
are found; others wished to conduct us to
'These observations from which Coxe (Hist.
Coll. of Louisiana, Vol. II., pp. 262-'65) doubtless
took a hint, entitle Father Douay to the credit of
pointing out sources of wealth to Louisiana. Cotton
and sugar are already staple products, and
silk may soon be. The valley of the Mississippi
owes the introduction of the sugar-cane to the
Catholic missionaries, for the Jesuits brought in
some plants from which the colony was supplied,
after they had shown in their gardens at New
Orleans how successfully it could be raised. The
same missionaries were also the first to raise
wheat in Illinois, and engage others to do so, as
one of their lay-brothers was the first to work
the copper mines of Lake Superior, to make articles
for the church of Sault St. Mary's. In the
East they deserve no less a place even in commercial
history; they not only called the attention
of New York to her salt springs, and brought
about a commercial intercourse between the
French of Canada and the English and Dutch in
their colonies, but, by showing the identity of our
ginseng with that of Tartary, enabled France for
some time to carry on a very lucrative trade with
China
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Cox, Isaac Joslin. The Journeys of Rene Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, Volume 1, book, 1922; New York. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth6104/m1/297/: accessed May 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.