Notwithstanding The English Have Us'd
All Their Endeavours, Yet They Could Never Bring Them To Leave
This Barbarity To The Spaniards; Who, As They Alledge,
Use To Murder Them And Their Relations, And Make Slaves Of Them
To Build Their Forts And Towns.
This Place is more plentiful in Money, than most, or indeed
any of the Plantations on the Continent; besides,
They build
a considerable Number of Vessels of Cedar, and other Wood,
with which they trade to Cuirassau, and the West Indies;
from one they bring Money, and from the other the Produce of their Islands,
which yields a necessary Supply of both to the Colony. Their Stocks of Cattle
are incredible, being from one to two thousand Head in one Man's Possession:
These feed in the Savannas, and other Grounds, and need no Fodder
in the Winter. Their Mutton and Veal is good, and their Pork is not inferior
to any in America. As for Pitch and Tar, none of the Plantations
are comparable for affording the vast Quantities of Naval Stores,
as this Place does. There have been heretofore some Discoveries of rich Mines
in the mountanous Part of this Country; but being remote from
the present Settlement, and the Inhabitants not well vers'd
in ordering Minerals, they have been laid aside 'till a more
fit Opportunity happens. There are several noble Rivers,
and spacious Tracts of rich Land in their Lordships Dominions,
lying to the Southward, which are yet uninhabited, besides Port Royal,
a rare Harbour and Inlet, having many Inhabitants thereon,
which their Lordships have now made a Port for Trade.
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