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on Board, and generally when they About 

 the Ship as they call it, they are fo near 

 the Shoar, that a Man may almoft fling a 

 Finger- ftone on^ Board. How much this 

 hinders the motion of a Ship, and what 

 Confufion it muft be to them to bring a con-* 

 trary Tack on Board, whilft they have all 

 the Guns of a Fort playing fo nigh upon 

 them, may readily be conceived. Archer'% 

 Hope is a Neck of Land, that runs down 

 three Miles long, not much paft half a Mile 

 broad betwixt the Main River and Archer\ 

 Hope Creek.^ which has large Marlhes and 

 Swamps ^ fo that a Citadel built upon the 

 Point, would almoft be Impregnable, being 

 it could be attacked no way but one, which 

 is fo narrow a flender Neck of Land, that 

 it would be difficult to take it that way : 

 And it would fecure James Town from bemg 

 block'd, being it would not be paft a Mile 

 by Water, to the Point of James Town IJland. 

 The Ifland is fo furrounded with Water and 

 Marlhy Land, that the Town could never 

 be Bomb'd by Land. But now to return to 

 the Reflexions of Improving, and Manuring 

 of Land in Virginia ^ hitherto, as I have 

 faid, they have ufed none but that of Cow- 

 penning ; yet I fuppofe they might find very 

 good Marie in many places, I have feen both 

 the red and blew Marie at fome breaks of 

 Hills : This would be the propereft Manure 

 for their Sandy Land, if they fpread it not 

 too thick, theirs being, as I have faid, a 

 fhillow, Sandy Soil, which was the Reafon 

 I never advifed any to ufe Lime, tho' they 

 have very good Lime of Oylter-ihels j but 



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