42 The Natural Historic 



yield both Profit and Satisfaction : If the plenty and cheap- 

 ness of Provisions, and the low rate of Lands, may tempt 

 People to this delightful Country, sure those who have but 

 small Beginnings, with moderate industry, may here live 

 more comfortably, and provide for their Families better than 

 in any place I have yet seen in Europe. 



The llivers are very beautiful, pleasant, profitable, large 

 and Navigable for several Leagues up the Country: They 

 rise for the most part in or near the Mountains, and abound 

 not only with great Quantities of delicate Fish, but likewise 

 with Wild-Fowl of different kinds. In many of these Rivers 

 are to be seen large and delightful Islands, where is excellent 

 Pasturage and some of them afford large Stocks of Cattle 

 and Deer, but scarce any Wild Beasts, and few Beasts of 

 Prey. In these Islands frequently grow vast quantities of 

 Cedar with several other kinds of valuable Timber Trees, as 

 I have already mentioned. 



The civilized Indians are very serviceable to the Planters 

 in many Cases, particularly in making Weares to catch Fish ; 

 this they do for a small consideration, and it proves very ad- 

 vantagious to large Families, because they not only take 

 great Quantities of different Sorts, but moreover what are 

 very good and nourishing; these Weares are made after a 

 method peculiar to the Indians only. Others Hunt and Fowl 

 for them at very reasonable rates, this Country being as 

 plentifully provided with all sorts of Game as any in Amer- 

 ica; the Indians sometimes assist the poorer sort of Planters 

 in planting their Corn for small Trifflcs, when expedition is 

 required. 



The Mountains that are the most considerable are the 

 CharoJcee, or Appelapean Mountains, they take tliolr rise 



from 



