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gree of strength, and at the same time of activity." 

 Fragment eincs Schrcibcns iibcr Klima itnd Witterung 

 in Nordamcrika, appearing as a Prefix to Volume II, 

 Schoepf's Reisc, p. XXXI. 



P. ioo See, Smyth, Tour in the United States, II, 

 238. " This swamp belongs to a company of proprie- 

 tors, who have begun to render it of advantage and 

 profit to them. They commenced with getting lumber, 

 cypress shingles, and boards, and with incredible labour 

 they have now formed several plantations therein, 

 which produce immense crops of Indian corn. They 

 have also cut a navigable canal, nine miles in length, 

 from the great lake, for the conveyance of their lumber 

 and produce." 



P. 102 See, " An act for extending the boundary 

 line between Virginia and North Carolina," Hening, 

 IX, 561 [October 1778] " Beginning where Joshua 

 Fry and Peter Jefferson, commissioners from Virginia, 

 together with others from North Carolina, formerly 

 appointed to run the said line, ended their work, and if 

 that be found to be truly in the latitude of thirty six 

 degrees thirty minutes north, then to run from thence 

 due west to Tenasee river." 



P. 109 See, American Husbandry, London, 1775, I, 

 337, " The two great circumstances which give the 

 farmers of North Carolina such a superiority over 

 those of most other colonies, are, first, the plenty of 

 land, and, secondly, the vast herds of cattle kept by the 

 planters. The want of ports, as I said, kept numbers 

 from settling here, and this made the land of less value, 

 consequently every settler got large grants ; and, fall- 

 ing to the business of breeding cattle, their herds be- 



