The Dedication. 



The Mifcarriage, My Lord, of the Scots in 

 this Defign, can be no Difcouragement to England^ 

 considering that we have at Hand, within our own 

 Plantations, Provifions, and every Thing ufeful for 

 Subfiftence, which they wanted : And their Efcapes 

 will furnifti us with Precautions, by which we may 

 avoid their Misfortunes. I can aflure your Grace, 

 that a Friendfhip may be eafily ' cultivated with 

 the Natives, who are entirely in our Jntereft, And 

 befides the peculiar Advantage of fuch a Settle- 

 ment, England would derive by their Vicinity to 

 Portobel, and Carthagena, a ready Sale for their 

 Slaves brought from the Coaft of Africa. 



The French* My Lord, being now pur Rivals 

 for this Settlement, it highly imports England to 

 prevent them, by endeavouring to become Matters 

 of this Neck of Land, of which being once poffef- 

 fed, they may command thofe inexhauftible Trea- 

 sures, which at Pleafure give either Peace or War. 



And how eafily that might be effected, will 

 eafily appear, if your Grace will be but pleas'd 

 to take Notice, with how little Difficulty Captain 

 Rafh and his AiTociates made themfelves Mafters of 

 all thofe Mines with a Handful of Men, and in a 

 very inconfiderable Space of Time, according to 

 the particular Relation given of that Expedition, 

 inferted by Mr. Davis at the Etfd of this Book. 



Tis true, my Lord, they had a pretty yneafy 

 Paffage through thofe Rivers, Woods and Moun- 

 tains m the By-ways, by which the Smallqefs of 

 their Number obliged them to march, the better to 

 prevent a Difcpvery. But if their Forces had been 

 more confiderable, they would hjive lain under no 

 Neceffity of taking fuch troublelbme Precautions ; 

 %nd xkmthy wpuld have ^voided the jnanifolcl 



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