Muskeetos,
And The Worm-Biting, Which Eats Ships Bottoms Out; Whereas At Bath-Town,
There Is No Such Thing Known; And As For Muskeetos, They Hinder Us
Of As Little Rest, As They Do You In England.
Add to this,
the unaccountable Quantities of Fish this great Water, or Sound,
supplies us withal, whenever we take
The Pains to fish for them;
Advantages I have no where met withal in America, except here.
As for the Climate, we enjoy a very wholsome and serene Sky,
and a pure and thin Air, the Sun seldom missing to give us his daily Blessing,
unless now and then on a Winters Day, which is not often; and when cloudy,
the first Appearance of a North-West Wind clears the Horizon,
and restores the Light of the Sun. The Weather, in Summer, is very pleasant;
the hotter Months being refresh'd with continual Breezes of cool reviving Air;
and the Spring being as pleasant, and beautiful, as in any Place
I ever was in. The Winter, most commonly, is so mild,
that it looks like an Autumn, being now and then attended
with clear and thin North-West Winds, that are sharp enough to regulate
English Constitutions, and free them from a great many dangerous Distempers,
that a continual Summer afflicts them withal, nothing being wanting,
as to the natural Ornaments and Blessings of a Country,
that conduce to make reasonable Men happy. And, for those that are otherwise,
they are so much their own Enemies, where they are, that they will scarce ever
be any ones Friends, or their own, when they are transplanted;
so, it's much better for all sides, that they remain as they are.
Not but that there are several good People, that, upon just Grounds,
may be uneasy under their present Burdens; and such I would advise
to remove to the Place I have been treating of, where they may enjoy
their Liberty and Religion, and peaceably eat the Fruits of their Labour,
and drink the Wine of their own Vineyards, without the Alarms
of a troublesome worldly Life. If a Man be a Botanist,
here is a plentiful Field of Plants to divert him in; If he be a Gardner,
and delight in that pleasant and happy Life, he will meet with
a Climate and Soil, that will further and promote his Designs,
in as great a Measure, as any Man can wish for; and as for
the Constitution of this Government, it is so mild and easy,
in respect to the Properties and Liberties of a Subject,
that without rehearsing the Particulars, I say once for all,
it is the mildest and best establish'd Government in the World,
and the Place where any Man may peaceably enjoy his own,
without being invaded by another; Rank and Superiority ever giving Place
to Justice and Equity, which is the Golden Rule that every Government
ought to be built upon, and regulated by. Besides, it is worthy our Notice,
that this Province has been settled, and continued the most free
from the Insults and Barbarities of the Indians, of any Colony
that was ever yet seated in America; which must be esteem'd
as a particular Providence of God handed down from Heaven, to these People;
especially, when we consider, how irregularly they settled North-Carolina,
and yet how undisturb'd they have ever remain'd, free from any foreign
Danger or Loss, even to this very Day.
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