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governed. All immoveable goods are common among thele 

 people, and excepting only their houfes, and the little gardens 

 belonging to them, they have no propriety in anything: they 

 carry on the buftnefs of Agriculture in common 3 and they (hare 

 the fruits of the earth among themlelves : At fowing-time the 

 Governors and their Officers overfee the work - 0 and at that 

 time all thofe who are of age to do any thing abroad, go out be- 

 times in the morning to their work, and continue there till 

 the evening, at which time they return to their Towns and 

 Villages to take their reft : While they are at work, it is the 

 bufinefs of their Chiefs to provide them fomewbat extraordi- 

 nary in meat and drink .* They difpofe their Harveft into the 

 publick Granaries, which are in the midft of their Towns and 

 Villages 5 and at every full Moon, and at every new Moon, 

 thofe who are entrufted with the diftribution thereof, fupply 

 every Family, according to the number of perfons whereof it 

 confifts, with as much as will luffice. 



They are a temperate people,and hate all kind of voluptu- 

 oufnefs, and whatever tends to effeminacy : And though Vines 

 grow naturally in their Country, yet do they not make any 

 wine but what is requifite for the divine fervice : Fair water 

 is their ordinary drink, but at great entertainments, they make 

 ufe of a pleafant kind of Beer, which is made of Turkey wheat: 

 They alio have the art of making an excellent kind of Hydro- 

 mel, or Mead, which they keep in great earthen veflels : The 

 great abundance of honey which they find among the Rocks, 

 and in the clefts of hollow trees, fupplies them with that 

 whereof they make that delicious drink, which is fuch as may 

 well pafs for Sack, elpecially after it hath been kept a long 

 time. 



Thofe of the fame Family live fo lovingly together, that 

 there are among them fome houles where an old man hath his 

 children, and his children's children, to the third, nay fome- 

 times to the fourth generation, all living under the lame roof, 

 to the number of a hundred perfbns, and fometimes more. 

 Moft of the other Nations of the Septentrional part of Ame- 

 rica, who inhabit along the Sea-coaft, are fo flothful, that in 

 the winter time they are in great want, becaufe they had not 

 fownany thing when the time ferved, or had confumed the 

 fruits of the precedent harveft in extraordinary entertain- 

 ments and debauches i But the Apalachites hate nothing fo much 

 as idlenefs, and they are fo addicted to pains-taking, that the 

 fruits of the earth, being anfwerable to their labour, and be- 

 ing diftributed with prudence and moderation, maintain them 

 plentifully, nay fo that they can, in cafe of neceffity, afiift their 

 Neighbours the Inhabitants of the Mountains : Both men and 

 women are perpetually employ'd, after feed-time and harveft, 

 infpinning of GottOD, Woo31 5 and a certain Herb, which is foft 



