unghill with their
skins.

Bees thrive there abundantly, and will very easily yield to the careful
housewife a full hive of honey, and besides lay up a winter store
sufficient to preserve their stocks.

The beeves, when any care is taken of them in the winter, come to good
perfection. They have noble marshes there, which, with the charge of
draining only, would make as fine pastures as any in the world; and yet
there is hardly an hundred acres of marsh drained throughout the whole
country.

Hogs swarm like vermin upon the earth, and are often accounted such,
insomuch, that when an inventory of any considerable man's estate is
taken by the executors the hogs are left out, and not listed in the
appraisement. The hogs run where they list, and find their own support
in the woods, without any care of the owner; and in many plantations it
is well if the proprietor can find and catch the pigs, or any part of a
farrow, when they are young to mark them; for if there be any marked in
a gang of hogs, they determine the propriety of the rest, because they
seldom miss their gangs; but as they are bred in company, so they
continue to the end, except sometimes the boars ramble.

Sec. 100. The woods produce great variety of incense and sweet gums, which
distill from several trees; as also trees bearing honey and sugar, as
before was mentioned. Yet there's no use made of any of them, either for
profit or refreshment.

All sorts of naval stores may be produced there, as pitch, tar, rosin,
turpentine, plank, timber, and all sorts of masts and yards, besides
sails, cordage and iron, and all these may be transported by an easy
water carriage.

Sec. 101. These, and a thousand other advantages, that country naturally
affords, which its inhabitants make no manner of use of. They can see
their naval stores daily benefit other people, who send thither to build
ships, while they, instead of promoting such undertakings among
themselves, and easing such as are willing to go upon them, allow them
no manner of encouragement, but rather the contrary. They receive no
benefit, nor refreshment, from the sweets and precious things they have
growing amongst them, but make use of the industry of England for all
such things.

What advantages do they see the neighboring plantations make of their
grain and provisions, while they, who can produce them infinitely
better, not only neglect the making a trade thereof, but even a
necessary provision agains