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Banks, which sometimes lye at the Heads of great Precipices, 

 where they often tumble down and are dash'd in pieces. 



It is very certain that the most Sweet and healthful Part 

 of this Country is inhabited only by the Savage Indians at 

 present; and a great deal thereof has no other Inhabitants 

 but the wild Beasts. For the Indians are not inclinable to 

 settle in the richest Lands, because the Timbers are too large 

 for them to cut down to make Plantations of: A farther 

 confirmation of the healthfulness of the Hilly parts of this 

 Country, is very apparent, in the large Stature and gray 

 Heads so common to be met w^ith amongst the Savages that 

 dwell near the Mountains. 



The Christians or Planters of North Carolina, Barter the 

 Commodities that are produced in the Country for Rum, 

 Sugar, Mollosses, XegToes, and the like. 



The current Coin of this Country is at present only made 

 of Paper Bills, which pass throughout all this Province ; not 

 but that the Gold and Silver Coin of all ^N'ations pass here, 

 according to their Weight or intrinsick Value, which the 

 Planters carefully preserve to buy Xegroes with in the Islands 

 and other Places. The Contents of the Bills in this Province 

 are as follows, viz. This Bill of ten Pounds shall he current 

 in all Payments in N'orth Carolina, according to an Act of 

 Assembly made Xovember 9th. 1729. This is the greatest 

 Bill, and twelve Pence the smallest, which is wrote after the 

 same manner of the former. The Assembly nominate five 

 of their Members, who sign all these Bills with different Ink ; 

 all these Bills are numbered in figures at the top, in the na- 

 ture of Bank-Bills, and Seals fixt to each of them ; there is 

 about thirty or forty thousand Pounds of this kind of Money 

 in North Carolina. 



There is a Treasury Office kept wherein all the Bills are 

 changed, and new ones given for those that are old and 



torn ; 



