of North Carolina. 13 



Lands than this, which is one of the greatest Blessings that 

 can attend a Country where there are so few Hands to Manu- 

 facture the Lands after that laborious Manner, which is cus- 

 tomary with us, which every Farmer in Ireland is well ac- 

 quainted with, who is at continual Expence for Servants, 

 Horses, and many other Necessaries to improve his Lands to 

 the best Advantage. 



The Lands of Carolina consist of different Sorts of com- 

 post, in several Places, some Stiff, others Light, some Marie, 

 others a rich Black Mold, some Sandy, one Part Pieny, 

 another large Timber Trees, others Savannas, with variety 

 of beautiful Flowers and long Grass, a rich black Earth, 

 where scarce any Tree will grow, yet produces the best Wheat 

 and Eice of any Land in these Parts, as has been experienced 

 by the Planters. 



I have seen several of these Savannas some Miles in length 

 and breadth, but ai-e little regarded or made use of by the 

 Planters, by reason that they are at some distance from their 

 Plantations, some being two, three, or four Miles from the 

 Water side, and are only Pasturage for Cattle. The Reader 

 must understand, that all the Inland in this Province lyes 

 waste at present. 



Other Lands in this Province are Perhosons, where large 

 Cypress Trees grow, others Swamps, where hollow Canes, 

 Myrtle Trees and several sorts of Vines grow, and produce 

 good Pasturage for Cattle, but are generally the Habitation 

 of wild Beasts ; both these being very wet and low Lands, and 

 so full of Canes and Underwood, that there is no passing 

 through them, many of which are several Miles in length. 

 The Indians in their Hunting Matches set these Places on 

 Fire at certain Seasons of the Year, by which Means they 

 drive out the Game, and kill vast Numbers of them. 



The 



