t an accidental scarcity, contenting
themselves with a supply of food from hand to mouth; so that if it
should please God to send them an unseasonable year, there would not be
found in the country provision sufficient to support the people for
three months extraordinary.

By reason of the unfortunate method of the settlement, and want of
cohabitation, they cannot make a beneficial use of their flax, hemp,
cotton, silk, silk grass and wool, which might otherwise supply their
necessities, and leave the produce of tobacco to enrich them, when a
gainful market can be found for it.

Thus, they depend altogether upon the liberality of nature, without
endeavoring to improve its gifts by art or industry. They sponge upon
the blessings of a warm sun, and a fruitful soil, and almost grudge the
pains of gathering in the bounties of the earth. I should be ashamed to
publish this slothful indolence of my countrymen, but that I hope it
will sometime or other rouse them out of their lethargy, and excite them
to make the most of all those happy advantages which nature has given
them; and if it does this, I am sure they will have the goodness to
forgive me.

FINIS.

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Transcriber's note:

1. The author or printer has irregularly capitalized references to
"king" and queen".

2. Illustrations: printer's inconsistancies have been retained.
(example: Ritchie and Ritchies, Fig: and Fig., etc.)

3. Printer's correction:

pg. x Table of Contents Chapter VI. Sec.22., pg ref. 140 to 147.

4. Spelling corrections (verified by multiple uses of correctly spelled
word elsewhere in text)

pg. vi - "jr." to "Jr." (Nathan Bacon, Jr.)
pg. vi - "procecute" to "prosecute" (intends to prosecute)
pg. xviii - "abridgment" to "abridgement" (made an abridgement)
pg. xix - "Guina" to "Guiana" (brough by some Guiana ships)
pg. 1 - "malecontents" to "malcontents" (malcontents in the)
pg. 3 - "Beverly" to "Beverley" (mainly to Robert Beverley)
pg. 12 - "Cheaspeake" to "Chesapeake" (cape of Chesapeake bay)
pg. 26 - "Burmuda" to "Bermuda" (put to sea from Bermuda)
pg. 28 - "palisado" to "palisade" (run a palisade on)
pg. 31 - "christianity" to "Christianity" (to us and Christianity)
pg. 36 - "setttlement" to "settlement" (settlement at Port Royal)
pg. 38 - "foundatian" to "foundation" (which laid the foundation)
pg. 50 - "Carribbee" to "Caribbee" (the Cari