164 A. D. 1731- 



The trade of thcfc two provinces to all other parts than Great Britain 

 is inconfiderable : not employing above loco tons of ftiipping to the 

 fugar iflands, and in all other trades on their own proper account. Yet 

 a great number of vcfTels refort to both provinces, of and from our 

 other continental colonies. 



That Pennfylvania, which has not any peculiar ftaple (like Carolina, 

 Virginia, and Maryland) and was begun to be planted fo late as 1680, 

 fhould at prcfcnt have more white inhabitants in it than all Virginia, 

 Maryland, and both the Carolinas, is extremely remarkable: and, 

 though the youngefl colony on the continent *, they have by far the 

 fined capital city of all Britifh America, and the fecond in magnitude. 

 The caufes ufually afligned for this vart increafe of white people there, 

 in fo fhort a time, are, ift. Their kind treatment of the Indians their 

 neighbours, whereby the province is abfolutely fafe from their attempts. 

 Some indeed have gone fo far as to allert, that they are the only Britifli 

 colony that have treated the poor native Indians with humanity : for 

 that no other Britifli province admits of the evidence of an Indian 

 againft a white man : nor are the complaints of Indians againft white 

 men duely regarded in other colonies, whereby thofe poor people en- 

 dure the mofl; cruel treatment from the very worfl: of our own people, 

 without hope of redrefs : and all the Indian wars in our colonies were 

 occafioned by fuch means. 2dly, The excellency of the laws; whereby 

 propertv is effedlually fccured to all the inhabitants. 3dly, The un- 

 limited toleration for all manner of religious perfuafions, without per- 

 mitting any claims to ecclefiaftical power to take place. All men who 

 are proteflants are indifferently eligible to the magiftracy and legif- 

 lature, let their private opinions be what they will, without any religious 

 tefl. 



The produd of Pennfylvania for exportation is, wheat, flour, bifcuit, 

 barrelled beef and pork, bacon, hams, butter, cheefe, cyder, apples, 

 foap, myrtle-wax candles, ffarch, hair-powder, tanned leather, bees*- 

 wax, tallow candles, flrong beer, lint-feed oil, ftrong waters, deer fkins,. 

 and other peltry ; hemp, which they have encouraged by an additional 

 bounty of 1-7^/ per pound weight, over and above what is allowed by 

 adl of parliament ; fome little tobacco, lumber, and drugs of various forts, 

 as fafl'afras, calamus aromaticus, fnake-root. Laflly, the Pennfylva- 

 nians build about 2000 tons of fliipping yearly for fale, over and above 

 what they employ in their own trade, which may be about 6oco tons 

 more. They fend great quantities of corn to Portugal and Spain, fre- 

 quently fejling the ihip as well as cargo ; and the produce of both is 

 fent thence to England, where it is always laid out in goods, and fent 

 home to Pennfylvania. They receive from 4000 to 6coo piftoles from 

 the Dutch ifland of Cura9oa alone for provifions and h(j[uors. And. 



* Giorgia was not then fettled. ^. 



