Then they have tobacco, which grows of itself, famous latakiah! and dates! and all kinds of sweet things that don't need cultivation.

It is a country full of resources and commerce.
They make fine rugs at Smyrna, and not dear." "But," persisted Leger, "if the rugs are made of wool they must come from sheep; and to have sheep you must have fields, farms, culture--" "Well, there may be something of that sort," replied Georges.

"But their chief crop, rice, grows in the water.

As for me, I have only been along the coasts and seen the parts that are devastated by war.

Besides, I have the deepest aversion to statistics." "How about the taxes ?" asked the farmer.
"Oh! the taxes are heavy; they take all a man has, and leave him the rest.