Editorial note — Chapter XVIII · : Future Condition Of Three Races—Part IV
Henry Reeve translation
o [ This is true of the spots in which rice is cultivated; rice-grounds, which are unwholesome in all countries, are particularly dangerous in those regions which are exposed to the beams of a tropical sun. Europeans would not find it easy to cultivate the soil in that part of the New World if it must be necessarily be made to produce rice; but may they not subsist without rice-grounds?]
p [ These States are nearer to the equator than Italy and Spain, but the temperature of the continent of America is very much lower than that of Europe.