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If they would build a Fort for the Security of the 
Town and Country, I conceive it fliould be on Archers 
Hope Pointy for that would flop the Ships from parting 
up the River, before they came to the Town, and would 
fecure the Town from being block'd up by Sea. The 
Channel at Archers Hope Peint lies dole by the Shoar, 
and makes fuch an Angle there by reafon of Hog Ijland y 
that going up or down the River, let the Wind be where 
it will, they muft there bring the contrary Tack on 
Board, and generally when they About the Ship as they 
call it, they are fo nigh the Shoar, that a Man may al- 
moft fling a Finger-ftone on Board. How much this 
hinders the motion of a Ship, and what Confufion it 
muft be to them to bring a contrary Tack on Board , 
whilft they have all the Guns of a Fort playing fo nigh 
upon them, may readily be conceived. Archers Hope 
is a Neck of Land, that runs down three Miles long, not 
much paft half a Mile broad betwixt the Main River 
and Archers Hope Creek, which has large Marfhes and 
Swamps ; fo that a Citadel built upon the Point, would 
almoft be Impregnable, being it could be attack'd no 
way but one, which is fo narrow a flender Neck of Land, 
that it would be difficult to take it that way : And it 
would fecure James Town from being block'd, being it 
would not be paft a Mile by Water, to the Point of James 
Town Ijland. The Ifland is fo furrounded with Water 
and Marfhy Land, than the Town could never be Bomb'd 
by Land. But now to return to the Reflexions of Im- 
proving, and Manuring of Land in Virginia ; hitherto, 
as I have faid, they have ufed none but that of Cow- 
penning ; yet I fuppofe they might find very good Marie 
in many places, I have feen both the red and blew Marie 
at fome breaks of Hills :. This would be the propereft 
Manure for their Sandy Land, if they fpread it not too- 
thick, theirs being, as I have faid, a mallow, Sandy Soil, 
which was the Reafon I never advifed any to ufeLime, 
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