The Easy Way Of Living
In That Plentiful Country, Makes A Great Many Planters Very Negligent,
Which, Were They Otherwise, That Colony Might Now Have Been
In A Far Better Condition Than It Is, (As To Trade, And Other Advantages)
Which An Universal Industry Would Have Led Them Into.
{Women good Houswives.}
The Women are the most industrious Sex in that Place, and,
by their good Houswifry, make
A great deal of Cloath of their own Cotton,
Wool and Flax; some of them keeping their Families (though large)
very decently apparel'd, both with Linnens and Woollens,
so that they have no occasion to run into the Merchant's Debt,
or lay their Money out on Stores for Cloathing.
{Natives of Carolina.}
The Christian Natives of Carolina are a straight, clean-limb'd People;
the Children being seldom or never troubled with Rickets,
or those other Distempers, that the Europeans are visited withal.
'Tis next to a Miracle, to see one of them deform'd in Body.
The Vicinity of the Sun makes Impression on the Men, who labour
out of doors, or use the Water. {Beautiful.} As for those Women,
that do not expose themselves to the Weather, they are often very fair,
and generally as well featur'd, as you shall see any where,
and have very brisk charming Eyes, which sets them off to Advantage.
They marry very young; some at Thirteen or Fourteen; and She that stays
till Twenty, is reckon'd a stale Maid; which is a very indifferent Character
in that warm Country.
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