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titles ; and design to try an essay of the grape for 

 making of wine. 



As for those of our own country in Carolina, 

 some of the men are very laborious and make 

 great improvements in their way, but I dare hard- 

 ly give them that character in general. The easy 

 way of living in that plentiful country makes a 

 great many planters very negligent, which, were 

 they otherwise, that colony might now have been 

 in a far better condition than it is, as to trade and 

 other advantages, which an universal industry 

 would have led them into. 



The women are the most industrious sex in that 

 place, and, by their good housewifery, make a 

 great deal of cloth of their own cotton, wool and 

 flax ; some of them keeping their families, though 

 large, very decently appareled, both with linens 

 and woolens, so that they have no occasion to run 

 into the merchants debt, or lay their money out 

 on stores for clothing. 



The Christian natives of Carolina are a straight, 

 cleanlimbed people; the children being seldom 

 or never troubled with rickets, or those other dis- 

 tempers that the Europeans are visited withal. 

 'Tis next to a miracle to see one of them deform- 

 ed in body. The vicinity of the sun makes im- 

 pression on the men who labour out of doors, or 

 use the water. As for those women that do not 

 expose themselves to the wea.ther, they are often 

 very fair, and generally as well featured as you 

 shall see any where, and have very brisk, charm- 



