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tions, who were then in Carolina. Nevertheless, 

 I say, the fame of this new discovered summer 

 country spread through the neighboring colonies, 

 and in a few years drew a considerable number of 

 families thereto, who all found land enough to 

 settle themselves in, (had they been many thous- 

 ands more) and that which was very good and com- 

 modiously seated both for profit and pleasure. 

 And, indeed, most of the plantations in Carolina 

 naturally enjoy a noble prospect of large and spa- 

 cious rivers, pleasant savannas and fine meadows, 

 with their green liveries interwoven with beautiful 

 flowers of most glorious colors, which the several 

 seasons afford ; hedged in with pleasant groves of 

 the ever famous tulip tree, the stately laurels and 

 bays, equalizing the oak in bigness and growth, 

 myrtles, jessamines, woodbines, honeysuckles, and 

 several other fragrant vines and evergreens, whose 

 aspiring branches shadow and interweave them- 

 selves with the loftiest timbers, yielding a pleas- 

 ant prospect, shade and smell, proper habitations 

 for the sweet singing birds, that melodiously en- 

 tertain such as travel through the woods of Caro- 

 lina. 



The Planters possessing all these blessings, and 

 the produce of great quantities of wheat and indian 

 corn, in which this country is very fruitful, as like- 

 wise in beef, pork, tallow, hides, deer skins, and 

 furs ; for these commodities the new England men 

 and Bermudians visited Carolina in their barks 

 and sloops, and carried out what they made, bring- 



