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ing tliem in exchange, rum, sugar, salt, molasses, 

 and some wearing apparel, though the last at very 

 extravagant prices. 



As the land is very fruitful, so are the planters 

 kind and hospitable to all that come to visit them ; 

 there being very few housekeepers but what 

 live very nobly, and give away more provisions to 

 coasters and guests who come to see them than 

 they expend amongst their own families. 



OF THE INLETS AND HAVENS OF THIS COUNTRY. 



The bar of Currituck being the northernmost 

 of this country, presents itself first to be treated of. 



It lies in 36° 30' and the course over is S. W. 

 by W., having not above seven or eight feet on 

 the bar, though a good harbour when you are over 

 where you may ride safe, and deep enough ; but 

 this part of the sound is so full of shoals as not to 

 * suffer any thing to trade through it that draws 

 above three feet water, which renders it very in- 

 commodious. However, this affects but some 

 part of the country, and may be easily remedied 

 by carrying their produce, in small craft, down to 

 the vessels which ride near the inlet. 



Ron oak inlet has ten feet water, the course 

 over the bar is almost W., which leads on through 

 the best of the channel. This bar, as well as Cur- 

 rituck, often shifts by the violence of the north- 

 east storms, both lying exposed to those winds. 

 Notwithstanding which, a considerable trade 

 might be carried on, provided there was a pilot 



