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The present state of Carolina with advice to the setlers by R.F.
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R. F.
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1682
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Wing F52A; ESTC R31486
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expect to meet with abundance of Navigable Rivers but of their Soundings I shall particularize more in my next as also of their Rivulets whose christaline streams are clear and transparent But their imbellished Meadows sertil and flourishing Savana's are guarded with pleasant and solitary Woods besides delicious Fields and Pastures that direct to Admiration Which to numerate as also to frame a Catalogue of the various Families of Fish and their store whose prodigious increase here to insert I cannot However some of them are Shad Sturgeon and Salmon omitting Whale which are numerous in these Seas so is the Seel or Selk the Bottle-Nose and the Porpus besides many other unctous Fish but the Shark to Admiration wants Courage here as indeed all other Ravenous Creatures do for if they see but the Face of an Infant they immediately fly Another Classis are Drum Porgee Bass Boneto Dolphin Albechore Sheepsheads Oldwives Catfish Cavalle Herin and Mullets the largest in AMERICA Trout also they have of two foot long besides the Pike the Eel and the Pearch with several other fresh water Fish omitted without consent in this Catalogue And their Shell-fish are Crabs better than those in England but Lobsters they have none that I hear of However Cokles and Mussles they have and Banks nay Mountains of Oysters and some with Pearl that seem to barocade the Cricks Besides prodigious Prawns and Shrimps in the brackish salt Waters but Crawfish in the freshes which are various Entertainments both to the Native and fortunate Planter But their Amphibions are Turtle Bever Otters Manitee Alegators c. And their Fleshes are Beeves Veals Porks Stagg and Fallo Deer Raccoons Apossoms Muttons Lamb Kid Hare Rabitt c. But Ravenous Creatures are Wolves Foxes Bears Panthers Tygres And their Venomous Creature is the Rattlesnake Then there 's Wild Fowl to Admiration as Signets Swants Wild Turkies of incredible weight besides teems of Geese and of several sorts There is Pheasant also Cranes and Heronshaws the Woodcock and Teal with Snite Jud Poot Morefowl Curlue and Covies of Partridges besides Plover great store green and grey There also are Turtle Doves Feldivers Sea Larks Sande Levericks Widgins and Pidgeons numberless besides the Mockbird with diversity and variety of Singing Birds and other feathered Fowl that I cannot accompt for Moreover they have plenty of Dunghil Fowl as the Cock and Hen the Goose the Turkey the Muscovy and English Duck Drake Where also the Savana's are crowded with Deer and large and stately Herds of Cattel patrole the Meadows as Sheep the pleasant Pastures and where every Field is replenish't with Corn as are the Gardens in Asia and Europe enriched with choice Stone Fruits but Almonds Nectarines Aprecot-Trees Malagatoons and the Musslin Plumb the richest Stone Fruit in England With divers other Trees as the Bone Critton gon and the Burgamy Pear besides Pippin Trees Pearmains Golden Russitins Harvey Lady-finger and Red-streak with various other Fruit Trees now sent over by the Honourable Sr Peter Colleton Bar. one of the Lords Proprietors And several Fruit Trees Flowers and Roots by divers other able Gentlemen and Merchants that have already laid a Foundation in this southern latitude of CAROLINA Which I perswade my self will in a very few years for Agriculture and Tillidge vye with the Glory of the whole World Moreover this beautiful Aurora or the Rising Sun of America known only by the Name of Carolina is already courted by almost every Country where note it begins to depopulate some American Settlements by reason of those Encouridgments propounded to all such as studiously solicit frequenting her florid Fields For in the first place there 's no Imposition of an Oath Then in the next place there 's Toleration and Liberty for people of Tender Conscience besides Fifty Acres but it formerly was One Hundred Acres of Free Land pointed at by the Constitutions but that Inconveniency is taken away because it hindred Community and Society and made the Setlers swell with great Plantations when Unity and Popularity are the Nerve that combines preservation And Naturalization also is confirmed to every Individual and single Person of any Kingdom or Nation whatsoever Male or Female that transports him or her self from any part of Europe whereby they stand in an equal Capacity with the King of England's Subjects and enjoy the English Priviledges in the aforesaid Province of Carolina paying only the yearly acknowledgment of One Penny an Acre as a Quit-Rent to the Lords Proprietors commencing in the year One Thousand Six Hundred and Ninety and not before Now to such other necessitous persons as stand in no capacity capable to discharge their own Passage yet is there Fifty Acres allotted unto them notwithstanding they come over as Servants and their Provision and Accommodation the Disposition and Charge of another which proportion of Fifty Acres is ratified unto them after the expiration of the time contracted and covenanted for by Indenture or otherwise But in case there be no Indenture nor any visible Contract then in such case that Servant usually serves Four years according to a Law of that Country made practicable in all his Majesties remote Governments and Settlements in America And this Encouredgement ensues that during the Service of such Servant be it Male or Female he or she shall also be accommodated as the rest of the free people are with decent and convenient Clothing and with all other things requisit and necessary And further to strengthen the Obligation when their Contract expires the Master or the Mistriss to whom such Servant has served his time honestly and Conscientiously is by the Custom of the Country to have Twelve Bushels of Indian Corn and a Firelock to enable him whereby to live and defend himself and the Country as also to lay a Foundation for his future Maintenance the like accommodation has every Woman-servant save only the Fire Arms excepted Moreover in their time of servitude here is no hard Imposition put upon them when Satturdy in the Afternoon is allowed them for Recreation for Decency and Repair of Apparel And the Negro Slaves also have a share of Liberty to keep themselves their Houses and their Plantations sweet and clean because the Lord's Day ought not to be prophaned nor is any Person whatever privilidged to violate the Sabboth These are sovereign Rules and wholsome Presidents that direct towards a Religious Reformation and if I mistake not becomes the Duty of every Christian whose good Example of Piety and Virtue will put a Spurr to others more remiss and encouridge all such as seek their own future Welfare in propagating the present Well-being of the Settlement and Setlers in Carolina But Europe nor the World has better Beeves nor Sheep than what feed and graze in the Province of Carolina Nor has any part on the Main of America greater variety of Fish and Fowl besides Fruits Plants Roots and Druggs so that nothing is wanting to compleat it happy But