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cessary for building with brick, or stone, wliich 

 sort your inclination and convenience le^dyouto. 

 For, after having looked over this treatise, you 

 must needs be acquainted with tl.e nature of the 

 country, and therefore cannot but be judges, what 

 it is that you will chiefl}^ want. As for land, r one 

 need want it for taking up, even in the places there 

 seated on the navigable creeks, rivers, and har- 

 bours, without being driven into remoter holes 

 and corners of the country for settlements, which 

 all are forced to do, wdio, at this day, settle in 

 most or all of the other English plantations in 

 America ; which are already become so populous 

 that a new comer cannot get a beneficial and com- 

 modious seat, unless he purchases, when, in most 

 places in Virginia and Maryland, a thousand acres 

 of good land, seated on a navigable water, will 

 cost a thousand pounds ; wdiereas, with us, it is at 

 present obtained for the fiftieth part of the money. 

 Besides our land pays to the lords but an easy quit 

 rent, or yearly acknowledgement ; and the other 

 settlement pay two shillings per hundred. All 

 these things duly weighed, any rational man that 

 has a mind to purchase land in the plantations for 

 a settlement of himself and family, will soon dis- 

 cover the advantages that attend the settlers and 

 purchasers of land in Carolina above all other colo- 

 nies in the English dominions in America. And 

 as tliere is a free exercise of all persuasions amongst 

 christians, the lord's proprietors to encourage min- 

 isters of the church of England have given free 



