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cattle are incredibly large, and feed in their rank favannas or meadows, 

 and rhey need no dry f'^^dder in their mild winters : an advantage which 

 our more northerly colonies want. South-Carolina produces confider- 

 able quantities of filk, and grapes in plenty, though not fo fine as in fome 

 parts of Europe, for want of a good and more general cultivation : fo 

 that he doubted not but Carolina would in time become a wine coun- 

 try. North-Carolina is a feparate government, and of a fmaller com- 

 pais than the other, partaking more of the nature of its adjoining neigh- 

 bour Virginia, both as to foil, climate, and produce, making therein 

 confiderable quantities of tobacco, their lands being generally richer 

 than thofe in Virginia. In fine, all the experiments that have been 

 made in Carolina have exceeded expedation, and it affords fome com- 

 modities, which other places in the fame latitude do not. It has rich and 

 delightful paifures, fine hills and rivers, and a moft wholelbme air. It 

 will, continues he, doubtlefs in time increafe the number of its produc- 

 tions, and afford us thofe rich commodities which India, China, the 

 Straits, Turkey, &c. fupply us with at prefent, fuch as tea, coffee, drugs 

 of various kinds, dates, almonds, &c. : which predidion has fince, in 

 a great degree, proved true in fad:. And though all that Mr. Lawibn 

 has laid of the improvements of this excellent province were not com- 

 pleted fo early as this year 1670, yet as many of them were then pretty 

 far advanced, and as we fliall fcarcely have occafion to treat again of 

 that colony during the remainder of this century, we thought it befl to 

 throw all the above particulars together at this time. 



By an ad of parliament, [22 Car. II, c. 13] it was enaded, that when 

 wheat was not above L2 : 13:4 per quarter, it fhould, upon exporta- 

 tion, pay cuftom and poundage per quarter, viz. 



From that price to L4 per quarter 



Rye at about L2 to pay - - - 



Barley and malt, not above Li : 12, to pay 



Oats at 1 6/" per quarter, to pay 



Peas and beans at L2, to pay « _ _ - 



This flatute permits the exportation of any fort of live cattle but 

 fheep ; as alio of beef, pork, butter, cheefe, &c. 



About this time, or perhaps a little later, the linen manufadure be- 

 gan to be encouraged in Ireland. It began among the Scots ui the 

 north of Ireland, where it has to this day flourilhed nsore than m any 

 ether part. It has, efpecially within the laft forty years, grown to io 

 vail an extent, as to furprife ail men, and to alarm all the linen coun- 

 tries beyond fea, fo as not a little to affed the general balance of trade 

 with thofe countries. The vafl quantities of linen, which England lakes 

 of the Inlh, enables them to pay for almoil every kind of our produd 

 and manufadure which we fupply them with. Before they made much 

 linen cloth, the people in the north of Ireland fent their hneu jaiu to 



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