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4» The Springs here are all near the Sea , fo that thore who 
live up in the Country have no benefit of them. They made 
Ponds formerly to receive Rain; which ferved well enough, 
b€\r]g k^ptcoolby-^ broad leavd Weed ^ni Ducke^i meat^ which 
over-grow moft Ponds. But now almoft every S'ftg^r- Plantation 
hath a Well, that gives very good Water. 
5. TheSoyl isferril, chough not above a foot or two thick, 
upon a white and fpongy Lime-fcDne- Rock, which affords good 
Quarries here and ihere,that ferveforbuilding.Every Dwelling- 
houfe, wrh the Sugar-work and other Out houfing, looks like a 
bandfome Town 5 moft being now built with Stont:, and covered 
with Pan-tileor Slate (broiight hiiher inthebaliaft of Ships, as 
are likewife Sea-coal for Forges, andfo are brought cheap e- 
nough.) Indeed the who!eI£iand appears in a manner like a 
fcatter'd Town, which with the perpetual green Fields and 
Woods makes the place very pleafant, 
6. The Blood of Negro s is almoft as black as their skin. I 
have feen drawn forth the Blood of at leaft twenty , bothfick 
and in health,and thefuperficiesof it all isasdark,as the bottom 
of any £//r(?/>^^;^ Blood, after ftanding a while in a dift. So that 
the Blacknefs of Negro's is likely to be inherent in them, and not 
caufed by the fcorching of the Sun, #fpecia!ly feeing that other 
Creatures here,, that live in the fame Clime and heat with them, 
have as florid Blood as thofe that are in a cold Latitude , viz^ 
Englmd\ Though much farther to the North there are People, 
that cannot brag of much clearer skins than the European ; fo 
that Complexions are no lefs Cold-burnt (if I may fo phrafe 
itj than Sun burnt* 
