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unfortunate experience in Maryland, wrote upon his 

 return to London: 



Intending there to open Store, 

 I put myself and Goods a-shore 



Here he described a nightmarish mixture of mosquitoes, 

 animals and Indians. He met a planter on the Eastern 

 Shore and said: 



With this sly Zealot I soon struck, 

 A Bargain for my English Truck, 

 Agreeing for ten thousand weight 

 Of Sot-weed good and fit for freight, 

 Broad Oronoko bright and sound. 

 The growth and product of his ground; 

 In cask that should contain compleat. 

 Five hundred of Tobacco neat. 



But the "damn'd pretended Godly Knave" secretly fled 

 with the merchandise, and the Englishman, failing to 

 obtain justice in court, left for home saying: 



May Wrath Divine then lay those Regions wast 

 Where no Man's Faithful, nor a Woman chast. 



ad prices and inspection 



The depressed state of mind, brought on by poor 

 prices on tobacco, caused rioting all over tobacco areas 

 in Virginia and Maryland. In 1732, for example, riots 

 occurred throughout the Prince George's Gounty area 

 where the Maryland Assembly had refused to pass an 

 inspection act which, the growers hoped, would raise 

 the quality and the price of their tobacco. 



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