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it with Charcoal ; as I have heard there was 

 formerly fome Perfons undertook the Work, 

 and when they had made but a fniall quan- 

 tity of Iron, which proved very good, the 

 Indian MalTacre happened, and they beiiig 

 higher feated than the then Inhabited part 

 of the Country, were all cut off, and the 

 Works demolifhed ; fo that it has frighted 

 others I think from the like attempt ; be- 

 fides, fuch a work requires a greater Fund, 

 andBank of Mony to carry it on,than any there 

 are able to lay out ^ and for Perfons in Eng- 

 land to meddle therewith, is certainly to be 

 cheated at fuch a diftance fome Indians 

 brought Col. Bird Ibme Black Lead, where- 

 of he told me there was great ftore. There's 

 very envious Chalk towards the falls of Ra- 

 pahanock^ River, which they burn and make 

 a delicate white Wafli of it. The Secretary 

 of State ColSpencer^has affured me,there were 

 Vitriolick or AUuminous Earth on the Banks 

 of Potomacks And thus far of wh^t my Me- 

 mory fupplies nie, referring to the Earth i 

 in the next place I fliall give a fhort account 

 of the Birds. 



Of the BIR.'DS 



X Had indeed begun once whilft I wasl^i 

 j[[ that Country to have made a Colledion 

 of the Birds, but falling fick of the Griping 

 of the Guts, fome of them for want of care 

 corrupted, which made them fling others 

 away that I had thoroughly cured for I was 



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