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great quantities of Grass on them, but of a coarser and 

 stronger ISTature than up the Eivers, where there is mostly 

 Clover to be met with, notwithstanding Horses, and other 

 Cattle feed very well on the former, and are fat, strong, and 

 fit for Labour, most Seasons of the Year. 



There are likewise Perhosons and Swamps, which are good 

 Pasturage for Cattle ; so that by the richness of the Soil, and 

 the many other Advantages and Blessings that attend the 

 Planters, they live after a lazy and indolent Manner, to what 

 those in New England do, and other Northerly Countries are, 

 by providing Necessaries for Winter. 



Lands are so very Cheap, that (after you have taken out 

 your Patten for Six Hundred and forty Acres, which will 

 cost three or four Pounds Sterl. or the Value in Carolina 

 Money) you pay at the dearest, for the said Number of Acres, 

 Six Shillings and Six pence Sterl. Yearly, and at the lowest 

 three Shillings and three Pence, free from all Taxes at pres- 

 ent: So that with moderate Industry may be acquired all 

 manner of Necessarys for the Support of a Family, though 

 never so Numerous, nothing being wanting there but a suf- 

 ficient Number of Hands, and Industry, to make it as fine a 

 Country as any in the World. 



They Plant or Sow all their Corn by one Plough, or the 

 Hoe, and several Plantations have produced Indian Corn, or 

 some other Grain every Year, since the Settlement of the 

 Christians in those Parts, without any Manure, and yet seems 

 not to be the least Impoverished, producing continually a 

 good Crop, imless a bad Season prevents, which seldome hap- 

 pens in Carolina. ^ 



And, I am satisfied, that there cannot be one gi-eater Argu- 

 ment in the World, to prove the goodness and fertiltie of the 



Lands 



