Chap. m. of the EnG hi ^ 
will but promife them better Conditions than they have 
under you, which may be very eafily done ; and of what 
ill Confequence this may prove, appears from the Ne- 
gro Regiment in the Spanijh Service ; for had they fuc- 
ceeded in their Invafion, and once penetrated into a Co- 
lony full of Negroes, they might have railed new Regi- 
ments by barely beating their Drums ; Regiments that 
would have been equally terrible to us, and ufeful to 
them, from their Knowledge of the Country, and from 
1 their Hatred of their old Mafters. 
There was a third Advantage propofed in the fettling 
this new Colony where it is fettled, and from the Terms 
upon which it was fettled •, and that was, the fecuring the 
Nations of Indians which inhabited the vaft Countries to 
the South and South-weft of Georgia, in the Britifo In- 
tereft. A thing fo much the more neceffary, confidering 
the Views that the French had of the fame kind ; and ol 
vaft Importance to all the Colonies, as the maintaining 
lof Friendfhip with thefe Nations, muft neceflarily inter- 
rupt the Correfpondence between the French Colonies of 
Canada and Louvifana, upon which their being formi- 
dable to us North America abfolutely depends •, fince if 
ever they complete it, every Child that can be brought to 
comprehend a Map, will fee that they will furround all our 
Colonies on the Main, from Nova Scotia to Georgia ; but 
by this laft Colony, we have bid fair for interrupting 
their Defign, by engaging in our Intereft thofe Indian 
• Nations moft capable of doing us good, and them hurt: 
As for Inftance, the Lower andC7py>^r Creeks, a Nation fo 
, called from their Country being interfedted with Rivers, 
which Country extends from the River Savannah to the 
, Lakes of Florida, Southward and Weftward, to the Che- 
rokee Mountains, and the River Coufa •, fo that we may 
eafily difcern how ufeful their Friendfliip muft be to the 
Colonies of Georgia and Carolina, more efpecially when 
it is conftdered that they are a very brave, a very nume- 
rous, and a very faithful Nation, as appears from their 
Conduft in the prefent War j in which they have fliewn 
' as heroic Courage as any the Greek Hiftory records, and 
a Fidelity to their Allies, equal to that of the early Ro- 
: mans, which has been owing to Alliances concluded with 
Equity and fupported by Integrity, and the fame Con- 
dud conftantly purfued towards them, will for ever 
bind them to our Service. 
The Cherokees poffefs the mountainous- Country Weft- 
wards to the River MiJJijfippi, as the Chickefaws do the 
Plains to the Southwell of the Country of the Cherokees, 
both brave and numerous Nations, enthufiaftically fond 
of Liberty ; in which it is our Intereft to fupport and 
maintain them againft the French. Hence it appears, 
that in this Light the Truftees were both well informed, 
and have happily fucceeded ; the Reafon of the thing, 
, and the Hiftory of the Country, plainly proves this ; and, 
3 befides, they have the only Idnd of Evidence in Cre- 
1 dit with the Moderns : I mean, that all they promifed 
themfelves has been verified by the Event. 
By the happy Situation of this Country, the Inhabitants 
of it will not only be enabled to proted and defend the 
' Northern Colonies that lay behind it, but may be alfo 
: of great Ufe to Jamaica and the Leeward Iflands. I am 
fenfible that there are many that will affed to treat 
the firft Part of this Alfertion as ridiculous, and to fneer 
, at the latter as chimerical •, but I have confidered very 
well what I have afferted, and am from thence convinced 
of the Truth of what I fay. I can very eafily forefee 
- that it may be objeded, m'y own Book Ihews that there 
3 are thoufands and ten thoufands in Virginia, Penfylvania, 
i New Fork, the Jerfeys, and New England and there- 
■ fore it is a Jeft to fay that thefe great and populous 
Countries are to be proted ed by a handful of poor People 
juft fettled in Georgia : Yet for ail this the Fad muft be 
true, or that Colony abandoned. If we, here at home, 
continue to proted and to fupport the People of Georgia, 
« and in Confequence of that Protedion and Support, in- 
duce them to confult their private Intereft, by purfuing 
fuch Schemes as are moft for the public Advantage, 
Georgia will very foon be full of People, and of ufeful 
People, who muft have their Tools, their Cloathing, and 
; other Neceffaries from hence •, and who will be in a Con- 
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dition to pay us plentifully for all they have. Georgian 
if attended to, may become as populous as Barhadoesn of 
the Bahama Iflands, and that in a very fhort Space of 
Time ; for if a large Bounty were given for a certain. 
Number of Years, upon every Pound of Silk imported 
from thence, we fhould fee it a rich and thriving Colo- 
ny, and People would flock thither from all Parts % who^j, 
by maintaining their Treaties with the Indians, might 
eftablifh an effedual Barrier againft both the French and 
Spaniards, with all their Indian Allies. All this is highly 
poffible and pradicable, nayj and very probable too •, and 
when once it comes to be a Fad> there will be no Sort 
of Abfurdity in faying the People of this Colony, and 
their Indian Allies, will afford Shelter and Protection to 
the Settlements that lie to the North of them. But this is 
not all, for, as I obferved before, if the Inhabitants of 
Georgia once become numerous, they will then, in Con- 
fequence of their Situation, be moft able to help Ja- 
maica, by a Supply of ftout, well difciplined, white Men, 
in Cafe of any Attack by the French or Spaniards •, or, 
which is an Evil they are not altogether fecure from, 
any hidden Infurredion of their Negroes. I very readily 
grant that I argue from an Uncertainty, that is to fay,- 
we are not fure that this Colony will be fo proteded and 
fupported •, but if it be, the Confequences are ablolutely 
certain •, and the Confideration of thefe Confequences 
ought to be no mean Argument with our Government 
to maintain and fupport it. 
We are now come to the Very laft Article of our Re- 
marks, which is the Hopes that may be rationally en- 
tertained of the Produce of this Country. We will begin 
with what the Truftees certainly defigned fhould be the 
Staple Commodity of Georgia •, I mean Silk : That this 
Country is very happily fituated, that its Soil and Climate 
render it very fit for producing Silk, cannot be denied by 
any who are at all acquainted with this rich Branch of Com- 
merce, which fome very good Judges have affirmed to be 
much more confiderable than either the Linen or the W ool- 
len Manufadure. This Country lies along the Sea-fide, is 
well watered within Land, has a Soil extremely proper for 
the Culture of the Mulberry-Tree, and is feated in a Lati- 
tude and Climate we might judge would prove agreeable 
to the Silk- worm. Thefe Circumftances might very natu- 
rally lead one to exped that the Inhabitants might feC 
about the Produdion of Silk in this Country, for their 
own Advantage. With a View to this, proper Perfons 
have been fent thither: The Experim.ent has been tried. 
Silk made in Georgia has been fent over, and Sir Fhomas 
Lombe, and other excellent Judges of that Commodity 
have declared, that it is in all Refpeds as good, and. 
works to the full as well, or better, than any Piedmont Silk, 
which ftands us in twenty Shillings a Pound. At the very 
Time that this Sedion is under my Hand a Letter has been 
received from the Reverend Minifter of the Proteftant Con- 
gregation at Ebenezer, by which it plainly appears, that 
Silk may be produced in the greateft Perfedion, and 
without any confiderable Difficulty in this Country, pro- 
vided the People had proper Encouragement. We are 
not to underftand by this, that the People in that Country 
affed to make Terms with us, and refufe to raife Silk 
unlefs we will give them more for it than it is worth; 
for the Fad is quite otherwife, the Encouragement they 
demand, is not fo much on their own Behalf as for the 
fake of the Commodity. 
All Beginnings are hard, and thefe People, in under- 
taking this Work, are beginning two Things at the fame 
time, viz. to raife Silk, and to raife a Subfiftance : If 
thefe interfere with , each other, ’tis very plain that the 
former muft give way to the latter. It is natural for Peo- 
ple to wiffi to live well, but it is neceffary that they 
fhould live fome way or other ; and therefore this poor 
Clergyman honeftly tells us, that his People having now 
got into aWay of winding the Silk off the Cocqnes, they 
would apply themfelves more diligently to this Bufmefs, 
if they were not called off by other Cares, that is, to get 
wherewithal to live upon. If therefore weTeally mean to 
promote the raffing of Silk in general, and aim, inftead 
of Curiofity, to make it a Commodity, we need only 
declare a Bounty upon it : This would fpeedily do the Bu- 
4 T fmefs ; 
