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for any uses ; Skins of Beers, Beeves, Buffelo's, Elks, Bears, 

 Panthers, and several other Beasts. The Furrs of Beavers, 

 Racoons, and many other wild Beasts, which are in great 

 Plenty here ; as also Rice, Wheat, Indian Corn, Barley, Oats, 

 Buck-wheat, and sundry sorts of Pulse, Potatoes, and variety 

 of fine Fruits, Flax, Beef, Pork, Tallow, Hides, Horses, 

 Whale-hone, Oil, Bees-ivax, Myrtle-wax^ Honey, Cheese, But- 

 ter, Cotton, Tobacco, Indico, Coffee, and no doubt would 

 produce good Silk, Oil, and Wine, the Soil of this Country 

 being as proper as any in the World for that purpose. 



This Country is likewise adorned with pleasant Savannas 

 or Meadows, Rivers, Mountains, Vallies, Hills, and rich 

 Pastures for Cattle, and blessed with a wholsome pure Air, 

 especially a little backwards from the Sea, where only wild 

 Beasts inhabit at present, few of which are so voracious as 

 to kill Men, Horses or Cows, for there cannot be a richer 

 Soil, no place abounding more in Flesh and Fowl, both wild 

 and tame, besides vast numbers of excellent Fish, Grain, 

 Cyder, and many other pleasant Liquors, together with most 

 IN'ecessaries convenient for Life, that are daily found out, 

 to the great Benefit and Advantage of those that are already 

 settled here. 



The Stone or Gout seldom or never afflict the Christian 

 Inhabitants, and the Europeans that have been afflicted with 

 the Stone and Gravel, find present Ease, by drinking Yau- 

 pan Tea. 



The Consumption we are entire Strangers to, no Country 

 affording a better Bemedy for that Distemper than the pure- 

 ness of the Air; neither has the small Pox ever visited this 

 Country but once, and that in the late Indian War, which 

 destroyed most of those Savages that were seized with it. 



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