To the West Indies we send Flower, Bread Pease pork @ sometimes horses the return from thence for the most part is rumm which pays the King a considerable excise @ some molasses which serves the people to make drink @ pays noe custom There are about nine of ten three mast vessels of about 80 or 100 tons burthen two or three ketches © Barks of about 40 Tun and about twenty sloops of about twenty or five @ twenty Tunn ships & principal

;

:

vessels.

belonging to the Goverm 1

All of which trade for England Holland

@ the West Indies ex-

@ that way any The Tenth is answered in the answers to the four @ twentieth &e

cept six or seven sloops that use the river trade to Albany

P a°rilh'e s

Precints

7b the Eleventh

A thousand ships may ride here safe from winds @ weather, I send herewith to your Lodp a Map from the coming in of Sandy Hook to the northermost end of this Island wherein the

what rivers

@ conveniency of tins @ roads but on the south

roads&c

Soundings are markt by which youil perceive the coming in

harbor

Quit along the north side of Long Island are very good harbors

side none at all

To the Twelfth what commodity &c

What account I can at present give of this is for the most part contained in my answer tQ the fourtl]l

f y 0ur LoP s Queries

To the Thirteenth