DEDICATION, 



TO HIS EXCELLENCY 



William Lord Craven, Palatine ; 

 The most noble, Henry Duke of Beaufort ; 

 The right Honorable John Lord Carteret ; 

 The Honorable Maurice Ashley, Esq.; 

 Sir John Colleton, Baronet, 

 John Danson, Esq ; 

 And the rest of the true and absolute 

 Lords Proprietors 

 of the 

 Province of Carolina in America. 

 My Lords, As debts of gratitude aught most 

 punctually to be paid, so, where the debtor is in- 

 capable of payment, acknowledgments ought, at 

 least to be made, I cannot, in tlie least, pretend to 

 retaliate your lordships favors to me, but must far- 

 ther intrude on that goodness of which I have al- 

 ready had so good experience, by laying these 

 sheets at your lordships' feet, where they beg pro- 

 tection, as having nothing to recommend them 

 but truth — a gift which every author may be mas- 

 ter of, if he will. 



I here present your lordships with a description 

 of your own country, for the most part, in her 

 natural dress, and therefore less vitiated with 



