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Add to these the effects and product that may be 

 expected from those mountains, which may here- 

 after prove of great advantage to the British mon- 

 archy : and none more fit than an industrious peo- 

 ple, bred in a mountainous country, and inured to 

 all the fatigues of war and travel, to improve a 

 country. Thus we have no room to doubt, but as 

 soon as any of those parts are seated by the Swit- 

 zers, a great many Britains will strive to live 

 amongst them, for the benefit of the sweet air and 

 healthful climate which that country affords, were 

 it only for the cultivating of hemp, flax, wine, 

 and other valuable staples which those people are 

 fully acquainted withal. "Not to mention the ad- 

 vantages already discovered by that worthy gen- 

 tleman I just now spoke of, who is highly deserv- 

 ing of the conduct and management of such an 

 affair, as that wise canton has intrusted him withal. 

 "When these savages go a hunting, they com- 

 monly go out in great numbers, and oftentimes 

 a great many days' journey from home, beginning 

 at the coming in of the winter ; that is, when the 

 leaves are fallen from the trees and are become 

 dry. Tis then they burn the woods by setting 

 fire to the leaves .and withered bent and grass, 

 which they do with a match made of the black 

 moss that hangs on the trees in Carolina, and is 

 sometimes above six feet long. This, when dead, 

 becomes black, though of an ash color before, and 

 will then hold fire as well as the best match we 

 have in Europe. In places where this moss is not 



