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latitude, do not. As for minerals as they are sub- 

 tarraneous products, so in all new countries, they 

 are the species that are last discovered ; and espe- 

 cially in Carolina, where the Indians never look for 

 any thing lower than the superficies of the earth, 

 being a race of men the least addicted to delving 

 of any people that inhabit so fine a country as 

 Carolina is. As good if not better mines than 

 those the Spaniards possess in America, lie full 

 west from us ; and I am certain we have as moun- 

 tainous land and as great probability of having 

 rich minerals in Carolina as any of those parts 

 that are already found to be so rich therein. But 

 waving this subject till some other opportunity, 

 I shall now give you some observations in general, 

 concerning Carolina; which are, first, that it lies 

 as convenient for trade as any of the plantations 

 in America; that we have plenty of pitch, tar, skins 

 of deer, and beeves, furs, rice, wheat, rie, indian 

 grain, sundry sorts of pulse, turpentine, rosin, 

 masts, yards, planks and boards, stave and lumber, 

 timber of many common sorts, fit for any uses ; 

 hemp, fiax, barley, oats, buck wheat, beef, pork, 

 tallow, hides, whalebone and oil, wax, cheese, 

 butter, &c., besides drugs, dyes, fruit, silk, cotton, 

 indico, oil and wine that we need not doubt of as 

 soon as we make a regular essay, the country be- 

 ing adorned with pleasant meadows, rivers, moun- 

 tains, valleys, hills, and rich pastures, and blessed 

 with wholesome, pure air ; especially a little back- 

 wards from the sea, where the wild beasts inhabit, 



