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any place I ever was in. The winter, most com- 

 monlj^ is so mild, that it looks like an autum, 

 being now and then attended with clear and thin 

 north-west winds, that are sharp enough, to regu- 

 late English constitutions, and free them from a 

 great many dangerous distempers, that a continu- 

 al summer afflicts them withal, nothing being 

 wanting as to the natural ornaments and blessings 

 of a country, that conduce to make reasonable 

 men happy. And for those that are otherwise, 

 they are so miich their own enemies, where they 

 are, that they will scarce ever be an}^ one's friends 

 or their own, when they are transplanted so, it is 

 much better for all sides, that they remain as they 

 are. 'Not but that there are several good people 

 that, upon just grounds, may be uneasy under 

 their present burdens; and such I would advise 

 to remove to the place I have been treating of, 

 where they may enjoy their liberty and religion, 

 and peaceabl}' eat the fruits of their labor, and 

 drink the wine of their own' vineyards, without 

 the alarms of a troblesome worldly life. 



If a man be a botanist, here is a plentiful field of 

 plants to divert liim in. If he be a gardner, and 

 delight in tliat pleasant and happy life, he will 

 meet with a climate and soil that will further and 

 promote his designs, in as great a measure, as any 

 man can wish for ; and as for the constitution of 

 this government, it is so mild and easy, in respect 

 to the properties and liberties of a subject, that 

 without rehearsing the ])articnlars, I say once for 



