Andas poor people have no means to defray the cost of passage and other expenses, it were desirable that wealthy individuals would expend some capital, to people this country or at their own expense remove themselves like the English of New England, with funds and a large body of working men, and provide those without means, with land, dwelling, cattle, tools and necessary support : and that, until they could derive the necessary maintenance from the soil and the increase of cattle, after which time they would

1 The district of Arnhem, in the Province of Gelderland,

2 A German town west of Keulen.

8 Between the Rhine and the German frontier.

4 The Duchy of Berg is about four or five miles §. East of Arnhem.

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be able to pay yearly a reasonable quit rent to their Lords and Masters from the effects in their possession.

By 'the population and cultivation of the aforesaid lands those who shall have disbursed funds for the removal of the laboring classes the purchase of cattle and all other expenses, would, in process of some years, after God had blessed the tillage, and the increase of the cattle, derive a considerable revenue in grain, meat, pork, butter, and tobacco, which form at first the earliest returns, in time can be improved by industry, such as the making pot and pearl ashes, clapboards, knees for ship building, staves, all sorts of pine and oak plank, masts for large ships, square timber, and ash and hickory planks in which a staple tradé could be established. The English of New England put this in practice, as is to be seen, after the land had been first brought to proper condition ; they sell their provisions at the Caribbean Islands, staves at Madeira and the Canaries, Masts and Fish in Spain and Portugal, and bring in return all sorts of commodities, so much of which returns as they do not consume are again distributed by them thoughout all the Islands known and inhabited in the Northern part of America.