finest _Wool_; but to do this, would be of little Use, since it is
contrary to the Interest of _Great Britain_ to allow them Exportation of
their Woollen Manufactures; and what little Woollen is there made might
be nearly had as cheap, and better from _England_.

As for _Provision_, there is Variety of excellent _Fish_ in great Plenty
easily taken; especially _Oysters_, _Sheepsheads_, _Rocks_, _large
Trouts_, _Crabs_, _Drums_, _Sturgeons_, &c.

They have the same tame Fowl as in _England_, only they propagate
better; but they exceed in _wild Geese_ and _Ducks_, _Cohoncks_,
_Blew-Wings_, _Teal_, _Blew-Wings_, _Teal_, _Swans_, and _Mallard_.

Their _Beef_ and _Veal_ is small, sweet, and fat enough; their _Pork_ is
famous, whole _Virginia Shoots_ being frequently _barbacued_ in
_England_; their _Bacon_ is excellent, the _Hams_ being scarce to be
distinguished from those of _Westphalia_; but their _Mutton_ and _Lamb_
some Folks don't like, though others extol it. Their _Butter_ is good
and plentiful enough. Their _Venison_ in the lower Parts of the Country
is not so plentiful as it has been, tho' there be enough and tolerably
good; but in the _Frontier Counties_ they abound with _Venison_, _wild
Turkies_, &c. where the common People sometimes dress _Bears_, whose
Flesh, they say, is not to be well distinguished from good _Pork_ or
_Bacon_.

They pull the _Down_ of their living _Geese_ and wild and tame _Ducks_,
wherewith they make the softest and sweetest _Beds_.

The _Houses_ stand sometimes two or three together; and in other Places
a Quarter, half a Mile, or a Mile, or two, asunder, much as in the
_Country_ in _England_.

CHAP. V.

_Of the_ Habits, Customs, Parts, Imployments, Trade, _&c. of the_
Virginians; _and of the Weather, Coin, Sickness, Liquors, Servants,
Poor, Pitch, Tar, Oar_, &c.

The _Habits_, _Life_, _Customs_, _Computations_, &c. of the _Virginians_
are much the same as about _London_, which they esteem their _Home_; and
for the most Part have contemptible Notions of _England_, and wrong
Sentiments of _Bristol_, and the other _Out-Ports_, which they entertain
from seeing and hearing the common Dealers, Sailors, and Servants that
come from those Towns, and the Country Places in _England_ and
_Scotland_, whose Language and Manners are strange to them; for the
_Planters_, and even the _Native Negroes_ generally talk good _English_
without _Idiom_ or _Tone_, and can discourse handsomly upon _mo