by what methods the produce and Trade of the Plantations can be best encouraged with the greatest advantage to England. It may be that many in England are not so well informed what their colonys are able to produce & by what means the people in the colonys will most effectually be put upon such Manufacture or Trade as shall be most beneficial to the Kingdom for the Colonys differ very much in the soil & inclination & humour of the Inhabitants It seems to be the desire of the

Government of Great Britain

that y°

Kingdom be supplied with

naval Stores from their Plantations, that they may not rely so much on the Pleasure of foreign Princes

what is so necessary to y e Strength & Wealth of y e Kingdom. Towards this end none of His Matvs Provinces can be more useful than this & perhaps no country in the World is naturally better There is not any where a richer Soil for producing Hemp fitted for such produce or manufactures. for

t'.ian

in many places in this Province

--Such Land

as has every year borne grain for above 50 years

together without dunging in which I believe this excells all the other Provinces in North America.

Our barren Sandy Lands bear great quantitys of Pitch pine for Tar, The Northern parts of the Province large white Pines* for Masts: & for iron we have great plenty of that Oar in many places close by the Bank of the River, where Ships of 3 or 400 Tuns may lay their sides the ground every where covered with wood for the Furnace and no want of Water Streams any where for the Forge The reasons which have hindred the Inhabitants from going upon any of these manufactures are the difficulty with which people can be persuaded to leave the common means by which they have supported their iamilys to adventure upon any new methods which are always expensive in the beginning & uncertain in the profits they yield This reasoning has the more force because few of the Planters have any stock of money by them but depend yearly on the Produce of their Farms for the support of their Families.