the nixt Spring I wish you were here and your whole Family for I doubt not but the Countrey would please you well For there is abundance of much better Land here then ever Arbikie was and an Earldome to be bought far below in pryce the vallow of what such pettie Lairdshipps as Arbikie is sold for in Scotland without purging of the Lands of any incumbrances For I hope to winn as much monie this year as will buy a better Lairdship then Arbikie and if ye resolve not to come over I resolve to buy Land before I come from this and title it Arbikie But I shall be sorie to take away your title for if I do it will be your own fault and for your better incouradgement I know you love a Gunn and a Dogge and here ye will have use for both For Wilde Geese Turkies Ducks and Drake Partridge Cunies Doves and innumerable more kind of Fowls which I know not their names are here to be seen every hour of the day in flocks above Thousands in Number And for your Skieft which you use to Fish with bring here with you or one like her for I assure you of good employment and yet ye may catch more Fish in an hour here than any Fisher in Montrose in two excepting Podloes at the shore head Sir take this as no jest from me for what is here written is a reall truth but ye may think it is not my dictating but the Writter and I have set it together the best way we can But yet not so full as I would have had it Present my Love to your Sister Uncle and all Friends and I am Sir Your very loving Friend and Cusin James Mudie A Letter from David Mudie Merchant in Montrose For James Mudie of Courthill in Scotland New-Perth the 9th of March 1685. Loving Brother I Write you a lyne upon my arivall here and by my last to my Wife of the date the 12. December I desired her to let you see it which I hope she has done if it be come to her hands I do now understand this Countrie better then I did at that time and the longer I travell in it I like it the better for a frugall man with a small fortune may very soon raise a good Estate which I wrote formerly to my Wife in relation to the Countrie I find it most certain and much better then I wrote this Winter hath been exceeding hard and sharpe the like not seen by those who have lived 20. or 30. years in it which hath hindred me of a great deal of work yet I have cleared three Acres of Ground to be an Orchard and a Garden which lyes close to the house which I am a building which is all of Stone work with Cellars under the Ground six Rooms off a floor two Stories high beside the Garrat and I have two Massons dayly working at it since the first of February three Wrights working at an Horse mill which will be clear against the later end of this Moneth And I am told that the Mill will be worth 100. lib. a year but I am sure she will be better then 50. of clear Money for every Scotsboll of Wheat or Indian Corn payes here for grinding of it 2. shill Ster this house and mill stands me a great deal of Money but there is none such in this Countrey nor ever was I resolve to go out to the Countrey to the Land which I have taken up which is upon a place called the South River which is 2 hours going from my own house by water I mind to settle some of my Servants there against the midle of this Moneth I am provided with six course Horse Oxen and Swine sufficiently in number for any Plantation for the first year the Land I have settled on in my Judgement is extroardinary good If any Friend or Acquaintance hath any inclination to come over here I can assure them if they be Frugall men and have but 300. lib. Ster Stock they may live better then a Gentleman with us of 40. Chalders of Victuall I cannot now resolve to come home till this time twelve Moneth since Thomas Parson hath so much disappointed me as I have written to my wife but against that time if the LORD preserve me in health I will come home then present my service to Arbikie and to my Sisters and to all our Friends which will save me a trouble to give them a Line my love to your wife and children I am Your Loving Brother David Mudie Let Arbikie my Sisters and the rest of my Friends see this Letter Abstract of a Letter from Robert Fullerron Brother to the Laird of Kinnaber to his Brothers and Sisters from Amboy the 6. of November 1684. Dear Brothers and Sisters By the Mercies of the Most High we are safe arryved after a long Demur by contrary winds we encountered very hapily at first with Long Island and the next day came to an Anchor in New Jersey The Passengers did all very well though we had some very rough gusts and were very throng in so small a vesshel being 130. Souls besids Sea men of these 27. were women 6. or 7. children only one man whom I hyred in your house called William Clark standing carlesly upon the Forcastle tumbled over boards and drowned tho we put out our boat and endeavoured in vain to save him This Countrey pleaseth us very well and appears to be nothing short of our expectation We were yesterday ranging about veiwing our Land whereâ—â—u shall have accompt by the next 〈◊〉 Land in general is good and aâ—reeâ—â—â—th the accompt you have heard tâ—â— I â—ees are no hing so invincible as I did â—magine being neither so thick nor so great as we thought The first plant which I touched was wild Bayes which row in abundance here the fruits are gery excellent such sorts as I have seen vâ—les the best I believe in the world some I have seen of a pound weight Cattle in generall are abundantly plentifull especially Horse and Oxen the greatness and fatness of the Oxen will Countervail the Difference of the price being about 5. lib. sterling The Countrey is not altogether leavell as some other Countries here but hath easie rysings and Vallies my new experience cannot give you such an accompt as you may afterwards expect but in generall the Countrey may satisfie any rationall ingenuous mind yet I find there be Novices who knows no happiness save home with a glass of Wine and Comorads in a change House tho there be no want here of more noble devertisments as hunting wild Beasts wild Horses and Deer yesterday I did see severall droves of Deer and wild Horses as I did ride up in the Countrey The Land which we were veiwing is a large plain under the blew hills watered with two or three little Rivers about 8. or 9. miles from New-Perth four from Rariton-River Northward the land downwards is all taken up by the Quitrenters
that are here There are 20 Lotts taken up in the Town by other People I engadge all to build a house of 30 foot long and 18 broad and 18 foot high to the raising to be finished within a year To pay for laying out 40 shil a Lot and 4 d per Annum Quit-Rent there are several begun already to build I have laid out between 40 and 50 Acres for the Governours house The high way and wharfe between the Hooks and the River a 100 foot broad And to â—eave a raw of trees along upon the River before the houses for shade shalter exceeding pleasant I have agreed for two houses of like demensions to be built for the Proprietors and also a house for the Governour of 6 foot long 18 foot broad And if the quit rents come in I intend 3 or 4 houses more for the Proprietors I can easily let them this work took me up 5 weeks After I had finished this work I set the people to work Scotish and English about 50 persons some preparing for building other on clearing ground to get Corn sowne this spring then came in a Boar privatly to Elizabeth Town the 12th past next morning I went to New-York to visit the Governour stayed there two or three days He was very kind and promised a fair correspondency so I did not publish my Commission untill this day before the Council They have been kind and courteous Now is the time to send over people for settling these There is 30000 Acres of Land in several places belonging to Proprietors formerly taken up by Cartwright so here is land enough The Scots and William Dorkwrans people coming now and settling advance the Province more then it hath been advanced these ten years Therefore Proprietors send over some Families and Servants I shall presently set them out Land and it well presently bring them in considerable profite in a few years here wants nothing but people There is not a poor body in all the Province nor that wants Here is abundance of Provision Pork and Beef At 2 d per pound Fish and Fowl plenty Oysters I think would serve all England Wheat 4. shil Ster per. Bushell Indian Wheat 2. ss 6. d. per busshell It is exceeding good food every way and 2. or 300. fold increass Sider good and plenty for 1. d. per Quart Good drink that is made of water and Molasses stands in about 2. ss per. Barrel wholesome like our 8. ss Beer in England Good Venision plenty brought us in at 18. d. the quarter Eggs at 3. d. per Dozon all things very plenty Land very good as ever I see Wines Walnuts Peaches Straw-berries and many other things plenty in the woods The Proprietors have 150. or 200. Acres 3. miles from the town upon Rariton River salt Marsh where I intend to let the people of Amboy cut grass for hay to their Cattle in Winter untill we otherwayes order it by Lots to them I reckon there is laid out for the Town Governours house and publick high wayes near or about 200. Acres so there rests 1800. Acres I laid 400. Acres as I said the rest to ly in common untill divided I have put two houses in repair upon the River called the Point 2. m from Elizabeth Town have let one of them with 10. Acres of Pasture ground and 10. Acres of Woody ground for 7. years at 26 lib. per annum the man to clear the ten Acres of Woody ground and make it fit for Pleuching or Pasture I intend to let the other also with some land all the houses were like to drop down all the land lying wothout fence and an barn quit falen down and destroyed another without any cover And that other next to the house where I dwell all to peices and all the fences and out-houses is down but repairsd before I came I am setting up a Ferry-Boat at Perth for Men and Horses to go and come to Burlingtown Pensalvania and New-York Also I am treating with one to set up a house midway to Burlingtown to entertain Travellors and a Ferry-Boat to go to New-York all which is for promotting Perth that being the center also you should give me power to set out a Line between the Governour of New-York and us he calls on me for it because several Plantations on the River are settled and we know not yet what side they will fall to I cannot at present mention all particulars which you must supply by some general clauses or words for it is not possible for you to understand what is for the good of the Province as I do that am here and be not sparing to send over people it will bring you it again with large profits for here is a gallant plentifull Countrey and good land I bave given you a large account of the little time I have been here I have none to writ for me but you must send a Coppy of this to Scotland and with it your further Instructions to be signed and send me forth I will be bound till it come I rest your friend Sic subscribitur Gavin Laury An Letter from Gavin Laury to a Friend of his at London East-Jersey March 16. 1684. Loving Friend I Promised to write to thee when GOD brought me to Jersey but had not time till now I shall give thee a breef account of the Countrey no fiction but the truth It is beyond what I expected It is scituate in a good Aire which makes it healthy and there is great conveniency for travelling from places throw the Province in Boats from a small Canoa to Vessels of 30 40 or 50 Tun and in some places 100 In the Bay coming up to Amboy point where the Town of Perth is now in building a Ship of 300. Tun may asily ride closs to the Shoar within a plank length to the Shoar and the houses of the Town and yet the land there nor other in the Province is not low Swampy Marish ground but pretty high ground rising from the water side at Amboy point the bank of the River is 20. foot in some places 30 and in some 40. foot high And yet hath many conveniencies for landing goods The soile is generally black in some places a foot deep beareth great burthens of Corn and Naturally bringeth forth English grass 2. years pleuching the ground is tender and the ploughing is very easie the trees grow generally not thick but some places 10 in some 15 in some 25 or 30. upon an Acre This I find generally but in some particular places there is 100. upon an Acre but that is very rare The trees are very tale and straight the generall are Oak Beech Walnut Chasnuts and Accorns ly thick upon the ground for want of eating Peaches Vines Strawberries â—nd many other sorts of Fruits grow commonly in the Woods There is likewayes Gumtree Cedar White-Wood like our Fir-tree Walnuts Chesnuts and others lye tick upon the ground there is great plenty of
on Amboy we are to have some Land laid out to us and we are Stocked with two Mares four Cowes two Sows two Oxen my Wise and I and the Child Richard are very well in health and hath been so ever since we came out of Scotland Now as for this Countrey it is a very good Countrey indeed poor men such as my self may live better here then in Scotland if they will but work a man can have Corn and Cattle or any other Goods for his work and he can sell these good to some hands for money it is not for a man that hath a Familie to come bound four years but young men who have no trouble they will do better to come and serve four years here then to serve in Scotland for they are not so hard wrought as in Scotland and when the four years are out they can gain abundance to work to other men or if they desire to setle upon Land of their own they can have it reasonably Cheap the hardest work that is here is clearing of the Ground and felling of Trees and the like the first year is the worst till they be accustomed with the work of the Countrey my Neighbour and I did clear from the middle of February till the midst of May five Acres of Land and have it planted with Indian Corn and Indian Beans and Tobacco for our own smoaking a man who lives here needs go no where to buy any things here he can have Corn and Cattle and every thing that is necessar for mans use if he be Industrious only the thing that is dearest here is Cloathing for there are but few Sheep to this Countrey but there are store of all other Beasts such as Horse and Cows and Hoggs there is here good Fishing good hunting of Deer and other kind of wild Beasts The Countrey is very healthie as I have seen yet it is cold in the Winter like unto Scotland But fra once the Summer breaks up it is hotter then it is in Scotland There are here very good Religious People they go under the name of Independants but are must like to the Prisbyterians only they will not receive every one to their Society we have great need of Good and Faithful Ministers And I wish to God that there would come some over here they can live as well and have as much as in Scotland and more then many gets we have none within all this Province of East-Jersey except one who is Preacher in New-wark there were one or two Preachers more in the Province but they are dead And now the people they meet together every Sabbath day and Reads and Prays and sings Psalms in their Meeting-houses this Countrey is very well settled with People most part of the first Settlers came out of New-England very kind and loving people kinder than in Scotland or England And for the Indian Natives they are not troublesome any way to any of us if we do them no harm but are a very kind and loving people the men does nothing but hunts and the women they plant Corn and works at home they come and trades among the Christians with Skins or Venison or Corn or Pork And in the Summer time they and their Wives come down the Rivers in their Cannoas which they make themselves of a piece of a great tree like a little Boat and rhere they Fish and take Oysters This Countrey is a very pleasant Countrey with Rivers and Creiks to fish in Only it is full of Wood such as Oak and Walnut-tree Chesnut Poplar and Cedar The only thing we want here is good People I wish that all the poor Friends I or my Wife hath were here As for my Brother if he have a mind to come Brother if you have but as much in the World as would transport you hither and your Family I would desire you earnestly to come and bring my Sister with you if you have as much as will transport you sell all and come tho you had not a penny after your passage were payed you need not fear if you have a mind to work I was as little brought up with work as any man yet blessed be GOD I can work now as my Neighbors and lives very contentedly with my Wife better then ever we did in Scotland shew my Mother in Law thaâ— my Wife and I would be very well pleased if she would come over there are as old Women as she comâ—… here out of old England there was one came alongst with us elder then she if she will come she shall live with her Daughter and me as easie and as well as ever she did live in Scotland and I do know that was well enough my Wife and I are well at present as you could wish GOD be blessed I can say no more but my love to my Brother and his wife and all Friends I rest your loving Cusin Peter Watson A Letter write by John Campbel to John Dobie New-Perth 8th of November 1684. B. John I Wrote a line from Philadelphia to you as we were coming hither your Cusin James Dobbie the bearer is in such haste that I cannot write what I would say but is short we are come here to a good wholesome Countrey in which with little industrie a man may have a comfortable life there is good Wheat and Oats growing here and Indian Corn which our Servants likes very well There is Fish and Fowl abundance and of Cows and Horse they labour wi h Horse and Oxen There is Deer through all the Countrey and Turkies which some of our Servants has killed a part of already There is Pertrages and Quails very rife that my wife yesterday morning saw about 20. of them walking before the door like Chikens I shall say no more till I see farther for I am with others going to the Countrey on Munday to see for the Countrey lotts for I have taken up the Towns already and cut down the trees of two Acres of ground with six men in three dayes My service to all Friends I am Your most assured Friend John Campbel A Letter from Thomas Fullerton Brother to the Laird of Kinnaber to his Brother in Law Doctor Gordon in Montross Elizabeth-Town 4. January 1685. Dear Brother BY my last about a Moneth since I dated from Amboy you understand that we came to Sandy-Hook 18. weeks after we sailed from Montrofe we were 9. weeks at Sea from Killebeg in Ireland we had many cross winds what other accidents we met with by the way were worth the telling but not the writting blessed be God we all kept our healths very well only one Boy fell over boord what you expect and I design by this is a breef but true accompt of the Country The first land we discovered was About the midle of Long-Island it appeared at first like trees growing out of the Sea Towards night we Anchored in Sandy-Hooke The land is low and levell that is the reason we were
Oysters Fish Foul Pork is 2. pennies the pound Beef and Venison 1. penny the pound a whole fat back at 5. or 6. per Bushell Indian Corn for 26 per Bushel Oats 20. pennies and Barley 2. shill per Bushell We have good brick earth and stone for building at Amboy and elsewhere the Countrey Farme houses are built very cheap A Carpentar with a mans own Servants builds the house they have all materialls for nothing except Nails their Chimneys are of stones they make their own Ploughs and Carts for the most part only the Iron work is very dear The poorer sort set up a house of two or three Rooms themselves after this manner The walls are of cloven Timber about 8. or 10. Inches broad like planks set on end to the ground and the other nailed to the raising which they plaister within they build a Barn after the same manner and these cost not above 5. lib. a peece and then to wâ—rk they go 2. or 3. men in one year will clear 50. Acres in some places 60. and in some more They sow Corn the first year and afterwards maintain themselves and the encrease of Corn Cows Horses Hogs and Sheep comes to the Landlord several Merchants of New-York have left their several Plantations there to come to East-Jer-sey 2. or 3. joyn together be 12 15 or 20. Servants and one Overseer which costs them nothing for the first year except some Shoes Stockings and Shirts I have been to see these Plantations and find they make a great increase by them maintains their Families at New-York with all provisions sell a great deal yearly and for Servants our English people are far better Husbandmen then the New-England men the Servants work not so much by a third as they do in England and I think feed much better for they have Beef Pork Baccon Pudding Milk Butter and good Beer and Cyder for drink When they are out of their time they have land for themselves and generally turn Farmours for themselves Servants wages is not under 2 shill a day besides Victuals and at Amboy point 2 shill 6 pen per day at Amboy we have one setting up to make Malt but we want a Brewar I wish thou would send over some to set up a Brewhouse and a Bakehouse to bake Bread and Bisket for a Bisket-maker we must have to vend our meat to the Plantations send over some Husband Men and Countrey Fellows that Plough Sow Reap Thresh and look after Cattle A Carpentar or two and a Smith for Ploughs and Horse and a Cowper which we want very much If thou will send a dozon of Servants most of them Countrey men I will set thee out a gallant Plantation of 500. or 1000. Acres upon a River side but thou must send over some goods to stock it withall I desire thee to encourage some of our Friends especially the Proprietors to send over some servants to stock some Land And when they have cleared it if they have a mind to lett it here are tennents to take it and if they will sell it here are also purchasers there is one man since I came here sold his Plantation for 1500. lib. the whole was 1600. or 1800. Acres whereof only 120. Acres were cleared upon which he had a house Garden and Orchyard and Barn planted I know several men who lett cleared Land at 6. shil 8. pennies and at 10. shil the Acre yearlie rent which is a good encouragement for sending over servants to plant I write not this as idle story but as things realy and truly are I have sent for servants my self to setle a farme for if the Proprietors will not do so I see not what they can exect The Scots have taken a right course They have sent over many servants and are likewayes sending more They have likewayes sent over many poor Families and given them a small stock and these Families some for 7. some for 10 years give the half of their increase to the Land-lord except the milk which the tennent hath to himself I have set them out land and they are at work I beleive they will have 40. Acres cleared this Spring and this Summer I am to sett them out more so that in a short time they will have a great increass coming in this will raise the price of the Land here And is the reason that several from New-York bounds come to me to take up Land for they beleive now this Province will be improven And our Land is beeter then theirs so that every Proprietors sending over 10. people will be a great advantage to himself encourage others to take up Land and bring all the division that hath been here to an end for these men seing that they shall be ballanced are already more complyant then they were Now I have layd these things before thee and desire thee to impart them to some of the Proprietors and other friends that they may consider of the same I am thy Loving friend Sic subscribtur Gavin Laury A Letter from Gavin Laury to the Scots Proprietors of the same date KNowing you do expect from us an account of this Countrey we have for your encouragement and for the encouragement of all our Countrey Men who may be inclinable to come into this Countrey given you this breef and true account of it according as we have seen and are credibly informed for having seen little yet save the Winter Season we must writ what is to be seen in Summer upon Information which we have just ground to believe to be true because what we have seen alread in it notwithstanding of all that we heard of it before we came surpass our expectation in many things the Aire in this Countrey is very wholesome and though it alter suddenly sometimes being one day hot and another cold yet people are not so subject to catch cold or be distempered by it as in our Countrey of England the land lyes for the most part pretty high but on the River and Creek sides are many Meadows which lye low of which the Countrey people getts their Hay whereby their stocks are maintained in the Winter Season Provisions here are pentifull and cheap There is Beef Pork Venision Mutton Foul and Fish aboundance to be had at easie rates and for drink they have good Beer and Cyder and these that are desirous may have Wine of several sorts and other kinds of strong Liquor so that we see little wanting here that a man can desire and we are here sure that a sober and industrious People might make this a rich Countrey and enrich themselves in it especially poor people who are hard put to it to gain bread at home notwithstanding of the excessive Labour for we see that people here want nothing yet there labour is very saml they work not so hard by one half as the Husband men or Fermors in our Countrey and many of these who have setled here upwards of
I please were it not for want of Hay to maintain the Cattle which I hope to get helped the next year for I have several pieces of Meadow near me The first Snow we had was about the midst of November went twice away again and about the end of the Moneth it came on and continued with very great Frost and knee deep Snow till towards the end of January And then the Snow dissolved pleasantly and calmly with the heat and influence of the Sun and now I judge it as warm here as it will be with you in May and much more pleasant for we are not by far so much troubled with winds here as ye are in Scotland the winter was generall very pleasant and calm altho sometimes very vehement frost I have spoken with several old Inhabitants here who assure me they had not seen so hard a winter as this has been these 16 years bygone and truely if I never see much worse I shall be very well pleased with this Countrie we have great abundance of Deer Turkies c. here about us and as for the wild Beasts and Natives whereof I was greatly affrayed before I came here I find no danger trouble inconveniency thereby at all there are abundance of all sorts of Cattle in this Countrey to be had at very reasonable rates I can buy a good Cow for 4 lib. ster a good Ox for 5. lib. ster and a good Horse for 5 or 6. lib. ster a Hogg for 20. ss ster a Bushell of Wheat for 4. ss ster of Rye 3. ss 6. d. ster of Indian Corn for 2. ss 6. d. ster There are 8. of us settled here within half a mile or a mile of another and about ten miles from the Town of New-Perth or Amboy-point so that I can go and come in a day either on foot or horseback viz. Robert and Thomas Fullertouns James Johnstoun of Spotswood John Forbes John Barclay Doctor John Gordon his Servants Andrew Alexander and my Self this is the most of what I can say of this Countrey at present for I intend to write nothing but what I either see or know to be certainly true and for my part I am very well pleased with this retired Countrey life and I love this Countrey very well as yet altho I hear of some of our Countrey men who are not neither can it be expected that any Countrey in the World will please the different humours of all Persons blessed be GOD my self and Wife and Children and servants have been and are still in good health which GOD continue be pleased to communicate this to both yours and my Friends and Acquaintances because I have not leasure to writ at great length to every one and let these remember me to all others that give themselves the trouble to inquire for Your most humble and and oblidged Servant Thomas Gordon A Letter from David Mudie of the date of the former to Mr. Alexander Gairns one of the Ministers at Edinburgh Sir I Did write to you a line upon my arrival here and my last the 12. of December directed to John Graham I desired him to let you see his letter and my wifes which would inform you as fully as I had written to you since that time I have travelled throw the Countrey and informed my self of the conditions thereof which still does the better please me the winter hath been exceeding hard and sharp which hath much hindered me of work yet I have cleared three acres of ground to be an Orchard and a Garding which lyes at the back of my house which I am building of stone sex good rooms off a Floor Sellers all under the ground two stories high and garrets at which I have had Massons since the first of February and I hope will have it fully Finished this Summer I have also built an horse-mill the house is 32. foot wide 40. foot long the great wheel 30 foot Diameter which I will have fully finished against the letter end of this Moneth it is told me she may be worth 100. pound Sterling a year I am sure she will be better then 50. clear money this from Sir Your humble and obedient Servant David Mudie A Letter from Thomas Fullertoun Brother to the Laird of Kinnaber to John Johnstoun Drogust in Edinburgh dated the 9. of March 1685. from East-Jersey Loving Commorad YOur Brother and I did write to you about three Moneths agoe wherein we told you that we were 9. weeks at sea after we parted from Killebegs in Ireland we were all very well at Sea only we had more Stomachs then meat to prevent which if you or any other Commorad come this way it will be prudence to fortifie themselves with good Cheese Butter Bisket Caks and Brandie I believe you are cloyed with descriptions of the Countrey And therefore this in brief the reports you hear of it are generally true some it may be are Hyperbolick in magnifying its Goodness but as many are detractive from what it really deserves There is abundance of good Land for the improving Abundance of Swine and Cattle for the raising Deers for killing houses for the building But some expect all these without pains Your brother and I and our Servants have had good Venison broth once a day all this winter to be short if a man please to live a Countrey Life to labour Land plant Orchards and such like I believe he cannot come to a place that will better answer his expectations and when he hath a minde to be merry he will get a Punsh-house and very good fellows I hope in a little time I shall want nothing but the company of the prettie Girls to all whom who retain any remembrance of me Let my service be remembered to all friends I long exceedingly to hear from you but more to see you we had many difficulties as our entrance and in our first indeavours But when you come I hope they shall be prevented by Your affectionat Commorad Thomas Fullertoun A Letter from James Johnstoun of Spotswood to Alexander Henderson writter in Edinburgh dated the 9. of March 1685. from his Plantation at the blew Hills in East-Jersey in America Kind Commorad THese are to present my best wishes to you and all Acquaintances if any injoyment could make up the want of your Company I should not complain here what else can contribute to profite or pleasure being here to be had neither is there any thing here to discourage us Quakers are not numerous Wolves are so far from troubling men that if a man shall lay a Glove upon a Carcass or their prey they will yell but not come nigh it You cannot come nigh a rattle-Snake but they will rattle with their taile whereby a man is advertised either to kill them or go by them they frequently charm Squirrels or other little Beasts of the tops of the Trees unto their mouth and that without touching them with their teeth which if they did they