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or fourtet-n Foot, as near as I could judge. From 

 these he has raised more than a Hundred, which he 

 has planted all in his little Garden behind his House 

 at about tour Foot Distance each, in the Manner and 

 Form of a Vineyard : They have taken Boot and 

 are about one Font and a half high; the next Year 

 y> he does oot doubt raising a Thousand more, 

 and the Fear following at least five Thousand. I 

 could not believe (considering the high Situation of 

 the Town upon a Pine Barren, and the little Ap- 

 pearance of Buch Productions in these little Spots 

 of Ground annexed to the House) but that he had 

 found Bome proper Manure wherewith to improve the 

 sandy Soil : l»ut he assured in.- it was nothing hut 

 the natural Soil, without any other Art than his 

 Planting and Pruning which he seemed to set some 

 Value on from his Experience in being bred among 

 the Vineyards in Portugal; and. to convince the World 

 that he intends to pursue it from the Encouragement 

 of the Soil proving bo proper for it. he has at this 

 Tim.- hired four Men to clear and prepare a- much 

 Land as they possibly can upon his forty-five Acre 

 Lot, intending to convert every Foot of the whole 

 that is lit for it into a Vineyard : though he com- 

 plains of his present Inability to be at Buch an ex- 

 to employ Servants for Hire. From hence 

 I could not hut reflect on the small Progress that 

 has been mad.- hitherto in propagating vines in the 

 publics Garden where, the Soil being the same, it 

 Bust be owing to the (Jnskilfulness or Negligence of 

 who had undertaken that Charge. n 



Bui the attempt b i failed. William Bacon 



Btevens, in his "Historj of Georgia," writes that 



