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gather each their Loading up and down an hundred 
Miles diftant ; and the beft of Trade that can b^ driven 
is only a fort of Scotch Pedling ; for they muft carry all 
fort of Truck that trade thither, having one Commo- 
dity to pafs off another. This Qe") the number of Ri- 
vers, is one of the chief Reafbns why they hive no 
Towns for every one being more follicitous for a pri- 
vate Intereft and Conveniency, than for a pubiick, they 
will either be for making Forty Tow ns at once, that is, 
two in every County, or none at all, which is the Coun- 
tries Ruine. But to return, The Tides in theft Rivers 
regularly ebb and flow about two foot perpendicular at 
.James Town ; there is there, as they call it, a Tide and 
half Tide, that is, it flows near two hours along by the 
Shoar, after that it is Ebb in the Channel, and again it 
ebbs near two Hours by the Shore, after that it is Flood 
in the Channel. This is great advantage to the Beats 
paffing up and down the River. I fuppofe this is caufed 
by mgny Creeks and Branches of the Rivers, which be- 
ing confiderable many, tho' only three or four Miles 
long, yet as broad as the Thames at London; others Ten 
. Miies long, fome above Twenty, that haye little frefh 
Water which they carry of their own, but their Current 
primarily depending upon the Flux and Reflux of the Sea. 
So that after the Tide is made in the Channel, it flows 
by the Shoar a confiderable time afterwards, being that 
thofe Creeks are ftill to fill, and therefore as it were 
draws a Source upwards by the Shoar,- and likewife 
when the Tiie returns in the Channel, the Creeks that 
could not fo readily disburfe their Water, being ftill to 
empty themfelves, they make an ebbing by the Shoar a 
confiderable time after that it is Flood, as I (ay, in the 
Channel. So far as the Salt Waters reach the Country is 
deqmed lefs healthy. In the Freihes they more rarely 
are troubled, with the Seafonings, and theft EncVuxal 
Diftempers about September Ofltfer. This being very 
remarkable, 
