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Carolina, if not the chief, is not inferior in this 

 one commodity to any colony in the hands of the 

 English. 



As for goats, they have been found to thrive 

 and increase well, but being mischievous to or- 

 chards and other trees, makes people decline keep- 

 ing them. 



Our produce for exportation to Europe and the 

 islands in America, are beef, pork, tallow, hides, 

 deer skins, furs, pitch, tar, wheat, indian corn, 

 peas, masts, staves, heading, boards and all sorts 

 of timber and lumber for Madera and the West 

 Indies, rosin, turpentine and seYeral sorts of gums 

 and tears, with some medicinal drugs, are here 

 produced ; besides rice and several other foreign 

 grains, which thrive very well. Good bricks and 

 tiles are made and several sorts of useful earths, 

 as bole, fuller's earth, oaker and tobacco-pipe 

 clay, in great plenty ; earths for the potter's trade 

 and fine sand for the glass makers. In building 

 with brick, we make our lime of oyster shells, 

 though we have great store of lime stone towards 

 the heads of our rivers, where are stones of all 

 sorts that are useful, besides vast quantities of ex- 

 cellent marble. Iron stone we have plenty of, 

 both in the low grounds and on the hills. Lead 

 and coppes has been found, so has antimony here- 

 tofore ; but no endeavors have been used to 

 discover those subteraneous species ; otherwise 

 we might in all probability, find out the best of 

 minerals, which are not wanting in Carolina. Hot 



