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increase : the fatted porkets and poultry are easily 

 raised to his table, and his orchard affords him 

 liquor, so that he eats and drinks away the cares 

 of the world, and desires no greater happiness 

 than that which he daily enjoys. Whereas, not 

 only the European, but also the Indian trade, 

 might be carried on to a great profit, because we 

 lie as fairly for the body of Indians as any settle- 

 ment in English America ; and for the small trade 

 that has been carried on in that way, the dealers 

 therein have throve as fast as any men, and the 

 soonest raised themselves of any people I have 

 known in Carolina. 



Lastly, as to the climate, it is veiy healthful ; 

 our summer is not so hot as in other places to the 

 eastward in the same latitude ; neither are we ev- 

 er visited by earthquakes, as many places in It- 

 aly and other summer countries are. Our north- 

 erly winds, in summer, cool the air, and free us 

 from pestilential fevers, which Spain, Barbary, 

 and the neighboring countries in Europe, &c., 

 are visited withal. Our sky is generally serene 

 and clear, and the air very thin, in comparison of 

 many parts of Europe, wh«re consumptions und 

 catarrhs reign amongst the inhabitants. The win- 

 ter has several fits of sharp weather, especially 

 when the wind is at N. W. which always clears 

 the sky, though never so thick before. However, 

 such weather is very agreeable to European bodies, 

 and makes them healthy. The iN". E. winds blow- 

 ing in winter, bring with them thick weather, and, 



