one Robert Levingston who hath a great Tract of good manuring Land, on his Progress to Albany he viewed the same with the adjacent Pine Lands & upon his likeing thereof hath contracted with the said Levingstone for 6000 acres good improveable Land with the liberty of making use of the Pines adjacent where the Palatines may find work enough for 2 or 3 score years to come Others as tlie Patrone (as he is called here) & Collonel Schuyler whom you have seen, have done the like, so that the experience M^ Bridges hath had of making Tar from the Trees as prepared by him, makes him confident that it cannot fail of good success, and nothing else than the want of support from home can prevent it. Two years will be required to prepare the Trees, but afterwards tliere will be such a succession of them as will enable the sending Tar & Pitch enough not only for supplying the Royal but even tlic whole Navy of England, & will give such a life to y® Trade of this country, as may very mucli contribute to encoui-age the wollen manufactory at home & discourage of it in the Plantations, by making the returns from tliis so far exceed the import, tViat it will make this Port tlie Emporium of the Continent in America. I think it Sir needless to sollicit your comitenaure in this intended design, the benefit of Great Britain is so visible therein, that there need no more than hint it to make you espouse it & become Sollicitor and promoter of it, with the ministry & in Parliament if need be for appointing a fund for setting of it briskly a going.