of North Carolina. 



Number of Mercliaiils, and rich Plauters, that are settled 

 upon it's Banks, within these few Years. 



The Streets in these Towns are as level as a Bowling- 

 Green, there being no manner of Pavement to be met with 

 over all this Province. 



The first Settlement of this Country was made in Queen 

 Elizabeth's time, by Sir Walter Raleigh and others, at Roan- 

 oke, in Albemarle County; but continued not long, either by 

 Sickness or other Misfortunes, or by the Barbarity of the 

 Indians, who were very numerous and powerful in those 

 Days, but are now very f ew^, being for the most part destroyed 

 by their continual Wars with each other, and European Dis- 

 tempers, brought in amongst them, and especially the Small- 

 Pox, which prov'd fatal to most of the Indians that were seized 

 with it. This Distemper, and many others unknown to these 

 Savages, before the arrival of the Christians amongst them 

 in those Parts. I hope it will not be unpleasing to the Header 

 to insert here a pleasant Story which still prevails amongst 

 them; and is attested by the most substantial and credible 

 Planters of this Place, which is, ^'That the Ship that brought 

 ^^the first Colonies, does often appear to them (in Albemarle 

 "Sound near Roanohe) under Sail, in a most gallant posture." 

 Which they call Sir Walter Raleiglis Ship. 



The second Settlement was made in King Charles the Sec- 

 onds Time, chiefly in Chowan and Barty Precincts, in Albe- 

 marl County, by several Persons from Virginia, and other 

 Northern Colonies, who finding the Soil so very good and fer- 

 tile, settled here, and are become very Numerous and Eich; 

 for the Lands here produce every thing Planted in them in 

 great abundance ; Horses, Cows, Sheep, and Swine, breeding 

 in vast Numbers, the Winter, being very short, and that so 



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