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Difputes and Declamations is the ready way to increafe 
it. And I find the more they Condemn our Church, 
Rail and ScofF at the Clergy, the fewer Profelytes they 
Gain. And I do not doubt, if it pleafe God, but in 
few years the Church will have not many to oppofe it, 
efpecially of Quakers. We have not yet found the 
way of Aflbciating our felves in Towns and Corpora- 
tions, by rcafon of the fewnefs of Handicrafts-Men ; 
and we have no Trade at Home or Abroad, but that 
of Tobacco; There are indeed feveral places allotted 
for Towns ; but hitherto they are only Titular ones, 
except Anmplis where the Governour Refides. Go- 
Ternour Nkholfon hath done his endeavour to make a 
Town of that : there are in it about forty Dwelling 
Houfes, Seven or Eight whereof can afford good 
Lodging and Accommodations for Strangers. There is 
alfo a State-Houfe, and a Free-School built with Brick, 
which make a great ftiew among a parcel of wooden 
Houfes, and the Foundation of a Church laid , the 
only Brick Church in Maryland. They have two 
Market-days in the Week,, and had Governour Nichol- 
fon continued there fome years longer, he had brought 
it to fome perfedlion. 
As for our Predeceilbrs the Indians, \ cannot give you 
at prefent any further account of them than this, viz. 
That whereas at the firfl: Seating of Maryland there 
were feveral Nations of Indians in the Country, go- 
verned by feveral petty Kings ; Now I do not think 
that there are Five hundred fighting Men of them in 
the Province, and thofe are moft on the Eaftern Shore, 
where they have two or three little Towns : fome of 
them come over to our fide in Winter time to Hunt for 
Dear, being generally Employed by the Englijh, they 
take dehght in nothing elfe ; and it is rare that any of 
them will imbrace our way of Living or Worfliip. 
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