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sucli other natural produce ; being some of the 

 sweetest meat that the world affords, as is ac- 

 knowledged by all strangers that have been there. 

 And as for the beef in Pampticongh and the south- 

 ward parts, it proves extraordinary. We have not 

 only provisions plentiful, but clothes of our own 

 manufactures, which are made and daily increase ; 

 cotton, wool, hemp, and flax being of our own 

 growth ; and the women to be liigldy commended 

 for their industry in spinning and ordering their 

 housewifery to so great advantage as they gene- 

 rally do, which is much more easy by reason this 

 happy climate, visited with so mild winters, is 

 much warmer than the northern plantations, 

 which saves abundance of clothes, fewer serving 

 our necessities and those of our servants. But 

 this is not all, for we can go out with our commo- 

 dities to -any other part of the West Indies, or 

 elsewhere, in the depth of winter ; whereas, those 

 in ISTew England, jSTew York, Pennsylvania, and 

 the colonies to the northward of us cannot stir for 

 ice, but are fast locked into their harbors. Be- 

 sides we can trade with South Carolina, and pay 

 no duties or customs no more than their own ves- 

 sels both north and south being under the same 

 lords pi-oprietors. 



-We have, as I observed before, another great 

 advantage, iu not being a frontier, and so contin- 

 ually alarmed by the enemy ; and Avliat has been 

 accounted a detriment to us, proves one of the 

 greatest advantages any people could wi.sli, wbirli 



