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A Ship came into Jamaica from Carolina with Beef and Pork: 
A curious Perfon on board related to me, that that Country abounds 
in every thingfor Food. Thatthey chiefly plant Indian-Corn. That 
he had travell’d from Palatzo ot the Apalathean Mountains, to St. Au- 
guftin in the Spanifh Dominions, and that the whole Country was 
level, moft fandy and barren, except about five Miles extent near 
the Rivers, where it was planted with Indian-Corn, and fome Whear 
for the Priefts, That the Fort of St. Auguftin had Twenty four 
Guns in it, and that the Indians paid yearly to the Spaniards a 
piece of Eight a Head Tribute-Money. That in Carolina Pines 
and Walnuts were the commoneft Trees, with fome Oaks bearing 
Acorns, on which the Swine feed, as well as on fome other wild 
Fruits abroad, and on Indian Corn within. He faid, Fevers and 
Agues were there common and mortal. ‘That he had come through 
the Bahama Mlands, and ftretch’d it between Cuba and Hii/paniola, 
and fo came to Port-Royal. The Duke of Albemarle once thew’d 
me a very rich piece of Silver Oar which his Father had fence him 
from the Apalathean Mountains on the Confines of Carolina, 
One from Tortuga and Petit-Guavw, told me that at this laft 
place the French have about Thirty Inhabitants keeping always good 
Guard for fear of the Spaniards. They have no. Sugar-Works, 
but Indico. Tobacco and Hides were their chief Commodities, 
the laft they get by hunting; but that frefh wild Beef is {carce, for 
they mug go a great way trom their Hlabirations to find it, and that 
in Companies. That Petit-Guayes is in the middle way betweea 
rhe Ifles de Vacas and Tortuga, 
