know the following
Words may also be applied to them, when he saith out of the Hills of
that Land might be digged _Brass_, for which there is no small Prospect
and Expectation; and in all Probability there may be found the nobler
Metals of _Gold_ and _Silver_, if we did but search for them in the
Bowels of the Earth, if we would but be at the Expence and Trouble to
seek for them.

Why may not our Mountains in _America_, for what we know, be as rich as
those of _Mexico_ and _Peru_ in the same Country? Since the little Hills
so plentifully abound with the belt of Iron; for the digging, melting,
working, and Exportation whereof Providence has furnish'd us with all
wonderful Conveniences; if we would add but a little Expence, Art, and
Industry.

This Iron has been proved to be good, and 'tis thought, will come at as
cheap a Rate as any imported from other Places; so that 'tis to be hoped
_Col. Spotswood's Works_ will in a small Time prove very advantageous to
_Great Britain_, which undoubtedly will be carried to great Perfection
and universal Benefit, by his skilful Management and indefatigable
Application to such noble Undertakings and glorious Projects.

CHAP. VI.

_Of_ Germanna, _the_ Palatines, _Wine_, _Hemp_, _Flax_, _Silk_,
_Sumack_, _Trees_, _Fruits_, _Coals_, _the Tracts of Land_, _Health_,
_Militia_, _the_ Mannacan Town, _Titles_, _Levies_, _Burgesses_, _Laws_,
_and general Assembly_.

Beyond _Col. Spotswood_'s Furnace above the Falls of _Rappahannock_
River within View of the vast _Mountains_, he has founded a Town called
_Germanna_, from some _Germans_ sent over thither by _Queen Anne_, who
are now removed up farther: Here he has Servants and Workmen of most
handy-craft Trades; and he is building a Church, Court-House and
Dwelling-House for himself; and with his Servants and Negroes he has
cleared Plantations about it, proposing great Encouragement for People
to come and settle in that uninhabited Part of the World, lately divided
into a County.

Beyond this are seated the Colony of _Germans_ or _Palatines_, with
Allowance of good Quantities of rich Land, at easy or no Rates, who
thrive very well, and live happily, and entertain generously.

These are encouraged to make Wines, which by the Experience
(particularly) of the late _Col. Robert Beverly_, who wrote the _History
of Virginia_, was done easily and in large Quantities in those Parts;
not only from the Cultivation of the wild Grapes, which