{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3547", "width": "1965", "jp2-path": "aziliahistorical00mont_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "Glass.\\nBook.", "height": "3474", "width": "1934", "jp2-path": "aziliahistorical00mont_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3468", "width": "1898", "jp2-path": "aziliahistorical00mont_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3464", "width": "1748", "jp2-path": "aziliahistorical00mont_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "_Z\u00c2\u00a3H\\nA Z I L I A", "height": "3437", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "aziliahistorical00mont_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3474", "width": "1691", "jp2-path": "aziliahistorical00mont_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "AZI LI A\\nHISTORICAL LEGEND OF EOR IA,\\nFROM I 71 7.\\n[From Original Papers Published at the Time.]\\nA LAND OF BKOOKS, OF WATEK, OF FOUNTAINS;\\nA LAND OF WHEAT AND BAKLEY, AND\\nVINES, AND FIG TREES, AND\\nPOMEGEANATES,\\nAND HONEY.\\nCOMPILED BY\\nGEORGE W. SHAFFER.\\n^AVANNAH, pA ^^V^^^\\nEDWARD J. PURSE, PRINTER.\\n1870.", "height": "3437", "width": "1753", "jp2-path": "aziliahistorical00mont_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3449", "width": "1789", "jp2-path": "aziliahistorical00mont_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "To THE Reader.\\nI publish for the Citizens of Georgia, The Histori-\\ncal Legend of this State in 1717.\\nIts genuineness may be determined, by reference to\\npublished Documents.\\nThose obtained from the late Petee Force, Esq...\\nare ^^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ith the assent of his Executor.\\nRespectfully,\\nGEORGE W. SHAFFER.", "height": "3422", "width": "1768", "jp2-path": "aziliahistorical00mont_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3449", "width": "1789", "jp2-path": "aziliahistorical00mont_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "A\\nZILIA.\\nlantatioBS of new countries, says the\\nij^ great Lord Bacon, are among the primi-\\ni tive and most heroic works of man.\\nj-5^ They are meritorious in a double sense.,\\nreligiously as they illuminate the souls of hea-\\nthens, through the darkness of their ignorance,\\nand politically as they strengthen the dominion\\nwhich sends out the colony and wonderfully\\nmore than any other means enrich the under-\\ntakers.\\nExcited therefore by an earnest inclination to\\nestablish such a settlement as may by new\\nmeans, yield new benefits as well as in wealth as\\nsafety and resolving to proceed upon a scheme\\nentirely different from any hitherto attempted\\nand which appears to promise great and inex-\\npressible advantage; the grant on which we\\nfound the undertaking will be seen in the fol-\\nlowing abstract", "height": "3422", "width": "1768", "jp2-path": "aziliahistorical00mont_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "8 AZILI A\\nThe underwritten Palatine and Lords Proprie-\\ntors of tlie Province of Carolina, do on the con-\\nsideration hereinafter mentioned; grant, sell,\\nalien, release and confirm to Sir Kobert Mont-\\ngomery, Baronet, his heirs and assigns, forever,\\nall that tract of land, which lies between the\\nrivers Alatamaha and Savanna, together with\\nthe islands, ports, harbors, bays and rivers, on\\nthat part of the coast, which lies between the\\nmonths of the said two rivers, to the seaward;\\nand moreover, all veins, mines and quarries of\\ngold and silver, and all other whatever, be they\\nof stones, metals, or any other things found, or\\nto be found, within that tract of land, and the\\nlimits aforesaid; wdth liberty over and above to\\nmake settlements on the south side of Alata-\\nmaha river, which tract of land, the said under-\\nwritten Lords, do erect into a distinct Province,\\nwith proper jurisdictions, privileges, prerogatives\\nand franchises, independent of and not subject\\nto, the laws of South Carolina, to be holden of\\nthe said Lords by Sir Kobert, his heirs and\\nassigns, forever, under the name and title of the\\nMargravate of Azilia, at and under the yearly\\nquit-rent of one penny sterling per acre, or its", "height": "3449", "width": "1789", "jp2-path": "aziliahistorical00mont_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "A Z I L I A\\nYalue in goods or merchandise, as tlie land shall\\nbe occupied, taken up, or run out; payable year-\\nly to the Lords Proprietors Officers, at Charles\\nTown, but such payment not to commence till\\nthree years after the arrival of the first ships\\nthere, which shall be sent over to begin the set-\\ntlement; over and jibove which penny per acre;\\nSir Eobert, his heirs and assigns, shall also yield,\\nand pay to the Lords Proprietors, one fourth part\\nof all gold or silver ore, besides the quota re-\\nserved to the crown out of the said royal miner-\\nals; District Courts of Judicature to be erected^\\nand such laws enacted within the Margravate, by\\nand wdth the advice, assent and approbation of\\nthe freemen thereof, in publick assembly, as shall\\nbe most conducive to the utility of the said Mar-\\ngravate, and as near as may be conveniently\\nagreeable to the laws and customs of England,\\nbut so as such laws do not extend to lay duties\\nor custom or other obstruction upon the naviga-\\ntion of either of the said rivers, by any inhabi-\\ntant of South or North Carolina or their free\\ncommerce and trade with the Indian Nations^,\\neither wdthin or to the southward of the Margra-\\nvate, Sir Eobert consenting that the same duty", "height": "3422", "width": "1768", "jp2-path": "aziliahistorical00mont_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "10 A Z ILIA\\nshall be charged on skins within the Margravate,\\nwhich at this time stands charged on such skins\\nin South Carolina, and appropriated to the\\nmaintainance of the clergy there, so long as that\\nduty is continued in South Carolina, but the said\\nduty shall not be increased in Azilia, though the\\nAssembly of South Carolina should think fit to\\nincrease it there, nor shall it longer continue to\\nbe paid than while it shall remain appropriated\\nas at present, to the maintainance of the clergy\\nonly In consideration of all Avhich powers,\\nrights, privileges, prerogatives and franchises.\\nSir Kobert shall transport at his own expense a\\nconsiderable number of families, with all neces-\\nsaries for making a new settlement in the said\\ntract of land, and in case it be neglected for\\nthe space of three years from the date of this\\nGrant, then the Grant shall become void, any-\\nthing herein contained to the contrary notwith-\\nstanding.\\nDated June the nineteenth, 1717.\\nCarteret, Falafine,\\nIa Bertie,\\nFoi the Bake of Beaufort.\\nM. Ashley,\\nJohn Colleton.", "height": "3449", "width": "1789", "jp2-path": "aziliahistorical00mont_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "A Z I L I A 11\\nA Description of the Country.\\nt lies about the 31st and 32nd degree\\n(/-lB3 of northern hititude is bounded east-\\n.^w ward by the Great Atlantic Sea to the\\nAvest by a part of the Apalachian moun-\\ntains, and to the north and south by the two\\nGreat Rivers mentioned in the Grant.\\nIn the maps of North America, it may be\\ntaken notice of, how well this country lies for\\ntrade with all our (Colonies, and in regard to\\nevery other prospect, which can make a situa-\\ntion healthy, profitable, lovely and inviting\\n^Florida, of which it is a part, received that\\nname from its delightful forid and agreeable\\nappearance.\\nIt has been commonly observed that gay de-\\nscriptions of new countries, raise a doubt of\\ntlieir sincerity men are apt to think the pic-\\nture drawn beyond the life to serve the interest\\nof the representer. To show the prejudice of\\nthis opinion, whatever shall be said upon the\\nsubject. Here is all extracted from our English\\nwriters, who are very humorous, and imiver-\\nsally agree that Carolina, and especially in", "height": "3422", "width": "1768", "jp2-path": "aziliahistorical00mont_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "12 A Z I L I A\\nits southern bounds, is the most amiable coun-\\ntry in the universe that nature has not blessed\\nthe world with any tract which can be prefera-\\nble to it, that Paradise with all her virgin beau-\\nties may be modestly suj^posed, at most, but\\nequal to its native excellencies.\\nIt lies in the same latitude with Palestine\\nherself, that promised Canaan which was point-\\ned out by God s own choice to bless the labors\\nof a favorite people. It abounds with rivers,\\nwoods and meadows. Its gentle hills are full\\nof mines lead, copper, iron and even some\\nsilver. It is beautiful, with odoriferous plants,\\ngreen all the year, pine, cedar, cypress, oak,\\nelm, ash or walnut with iiinumerable other sorts\\nboth fruit or timber trees, grow everywhere so\\npleasantly that though they meet at the top and\\nshade the traveller, they are at the same time\\nso distant in their bodies, and so free from\\nunderwood or bushes, that the deer and other\\ngame, which feed in droves along the forests,\\nmaybe often seen nvar half a mile between them.\\nThe air is healthy and the soil in general\\nfruitful and of infinite variety vines naturally\\nflourishing upon the hills, bear grapes in most", "height": "3449", "width": "1789", "jp2-path": "aziliahistorical00mont_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "A Z I L I A 13\\nluxuriant plenty. They liaye eyeiy grovrtli\\nwliicli we possess in England, and almost eyery\\ntiling that England wants besides. The orange\\nand the lemon, thriye in the same common\\norchard with the apple, and the pear tree,\\nplumbs, peaches, apricots and nectarines, bear\\nfrom stones in three years growing.\\nThe planters raise large orchards of these\\nfruits to feed their hogs with wheat ears haye\\nbeen measured there seyen inches long, and\\nthey haye barley, beans, peas, rice, and all our\\ngrains, roots, herbs and liowers not to speak of\\nnumbers of their own, which we can find no\\nnames for; beef, mutton, pork, tame poultry,\\nwild fowl, sea and riyer fish, are all there plenti-\\nful, and most at lower rates, than in the cheap-\\nest parts of Wales or Scotland.\\nThe many lakes and pretty riyulets through-\\nout the Proyince, breed a multitude of geese,\\nand other water fowl the air is found so tem-\\nperate, and the seasons of the year so yeiy reg-\\nular, that there is no excess of heat or cold nor\\nany sudden alterations in the weather the riyer\\nbanks are coyered with a strange variety of\\nloyely trees, which being always green, present", "height": "3422", "width": "1768", "jp2-path": "aziliahistorical00mont_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "li A Z I L I A\\na tliousancl landscapes to the eye, so fine and so\\ndiversified, that the sight is entirely charmed\\nwith them the ground lies sloping towards the\\nrivers, but at a distance rises gradually and in-\\ntermingles like hills of wood with fruitful plains,\\nall covered ovet with wild flowers and not a tree\\nto interrupt the prospect. And this tempting\\ncountry is not inhabited except those parts in\\nthe possession of the English, unless, by here and\\nthere, a tribe of wandering Indians wild and\\nignorant, all artless and uncultivated, as the soil\\nwhich fosters them.\\nvl^fes\\nOf the I orm PEorosED in kSettling.\\n.ur meaning here relates to ^^hat imme-\\ndiate measures will be taken, for secu-\\n^^^^S ^^y against the insults of the Natives\\nduring the infancy of our affairs; to\\nAvhich end we shall not satisfy ourselves with\\nbuilding here and iliere a Fort, the fatal prac-\\ntice of America, l)ut so dispose the habitations\\nand divisions of the lau l, that not alone our", "height": "3449", "width": "1789", "jp2-path": "aziliahistorical00mont_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "A Z I L I A 15\\nhouses, but whatever we possess, will be enclosed\\nby military lines impregnable against the sav-\\nages, and which will make our whole Plantation\\none continued Fortress. It need not be sup-\\nposed that all the lands will thus be fortified at\\nonce.\\nThe first lines drawn will be in just propor-\\ntion to the number of men they inclose; as\\nthe inhabitants increase new lines will be made\\nto enclose them also, so that all the people will\\nbe always safe within a well-defended line of\\ncircumvallation.\\nThe reader will allow it is not necessary that\\nthese retrenchments be of bulk like those of\\nEurope; small defence is strong against the\\npoor unskillful Natives of America. They have\\naccomplished all their bloody mischief by sTlr-\\nprises and incursions, but durst never think of a\\ndefiance to artillery.\\nThe massacres and frequent ruins which have\\nfallen upon some English settlements for want\\nof this one caution have sufficiently instructed\\nus that strength producing safety is the point\\nwhich should be chiefly weighed in such attempts", "height": "3422", "width": "1768", "jp2-path": "aziliahistorical00mont_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "16 A Z I L I A\\nas these\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Solon liad reason when he said to\\nCiTesus lookmg on his treasure, Yon are rich\\nindeed and so far you are mighty But if any\\nman should come with a sharper steel than yours,\\nhow easily will he be made the master of your\\ngold.\\nAt the arrival therefore of the first men carried\\nover, proper officers shall mark and cause to be\\nintrenched a square of land in just proportion\\nto their number. On the outside of this square,\\nwithin the little redoubts or bastions of the\\nintrenchment they raise light timber dwellings,\\ncutting down the trees which everywhere encom-\\npass them. The officers are quartered with the\\nmen whom they command, and the Governor-in-\\nCliief is placed exactly in the center. By these\\nmoans the laboring people (being so disposed\\nas to be always w^atchful of an enemies approach,)\\nare themselves within the eye of those set over\\nthem, and altogether under the inspection of\\ntheir principal.\\nThe redoubts may be near enough to defend\\neach other with muskets, but field-pieces and pa-\\ntarero s will be planted upon each, kept charged\\nwith cartridge shot and pieces of old iron.", "height": "3449", "width": "1789", "jp2-path": "aziliahistorical00mont_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "AZILIA. 17\\nWithin these redoubts are the common dwellings\\nof the men who must defend them; between\\nthem runs a palisadoed bank and a ditch, Avhicli\\nwill ]3e scoured by the artillery. One man in\\neach redoubt kept night and day upon the\\nguard, will give alarm upon occasion to the\\nothers at their work. So they cultivate their\\nlands, raise their cattle, and follow their business,\\nwith great ease and safety. Exactly in the cen-\\nter of the innermost square, will be a Fort de-\\nfended by large cannons pointing every Avay,\\nand capable of making strong resistance in case\\nsome (juarter of the outward lines should chance\\nto be surprised by any sudden accident, which\\nyet with tolerable care v ^ould be impracticable.\\nThe nature of this scheme when weighed\\nagainst the ignorance and wildness of the\\nNatives will show that men thus settled may at\\nonce defend and cultivate a territory with the\\nutmost satisfaction and security,even in the heart\\nof an Indian Country, then how much rather in\\na place considerably distant from the savage\\nsettlements.\\nAs the numbers shall increase and they go as\\nto clear more space of land, they are to regulate", "height": "3422", "width": "1768", "jp2-path": "aziliahistorical00mont_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "18 A Z I L I A\\ntlieir settlements with like regard to safety and\\nimprovement and indeed tlie difference as to the\\ntime and labor is not near so great as may be\\nthought betwixt enclosing land this way, and\\nfollowing the dangerous common method; but\\nwhat is here already said will show the end for\\nwhich it has been written which was only to give\\na general notion of the care and caution we pro-\\npose to act with. It will not however be amiss,\\nas you have seen the first rude form of our Azilia\\nin her infancy, to view her also in the fulness of\\nher beauty and to end we have affixed a plan\\nof one Avliole district, cleared, planted and in-\\nhabited; for as the country thrives, all future\\ntownships will be formed according to this ]3lan,\\nand measured out as near each other as the\\nrivers, hills, and other natural impediments will\\nin any way admit of.\\nBut least it should be feared from the cor-\\nrectness of this model, that it will be a work\\nof too great difficulty, and require a mighty\\nlength of time to bring it to perfection, we think\\nit proper to declare that purchasers will not be\\nobliged to wait this form of settlement, but are\\nentitled to the immediate profits of peculiar", "height": "3449", "width": "1789", "jp2-path": "aziliahistorical00mont_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "A Z I L I A 19\\nlands, assigned tliem, from tlie first arrival of\\ntlie Colony; wliicli lands being set apart for\\nthat purpose will be strongly enclosed and de-\\nfended by the lines or intrenchments before\\nmentioned.\\nNeither would we have it thought a labor so\\ntedious as it is generally fancied, to establish in\\nthis manner a Colony which may become not\\nonly an advantage but a glory to the nation.\\nWe have prospects before us most attractive\\nand unprecedented in the three tempting\\npoints wealth, safety and liberty; benefits like\\nthese can never fail of drawing numbers of in-\\nhabitants from every corner. And men once\\ngot together, it is as easy to dispose them regu-\\nlarly and with due regard to order, beauty and\\nthe comforts of society, as to leave them to the\\nfolly of fixing at random and destroying their\\ninterest, by indulging their humor so that we\\nhave more than ordinary cause to expect that in\\na very short time we shall be able to present\\nthe solid life itself, as now we give the shadow\\nonly in the following explanation.\\nYou must suppose a level dry and fruitful", "height": "3422", "width": "1768", "jp2-path": "aziliahistorical00mont_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "20 A Z I L I A\\ntract of land in some fine plain or valley, con-\\ntaining a just square of twenty miles each way,\\nor two liunclred and fifty- six thousand acres,\\nlaid out and settled in the form presented in the\\ncut annexed.\\nThe district is defended by sufiicient numbers\\nof men v^dio dwelling in the fortified angles of\\nthe line, will be employed in cultivating lands\\nwhich are kept in hand for the particular ad-\\nvantage of the Margrave. These lands sur-\\nround the district just in the lines, and every\\nwhere contain in breadth one mile exactly.\\nThe men, thus employed, are such as shall be\\nhired in Great Britain or Ireland, well disciplin-\\ned, armed and carried over, on condition to\\nserve faithfully for such a term of years, as they\\nbefore shall agree to and that no man may be\\nwretched in so happy a country, dt the expira-\\ntion of those peoples time besides some other\\nconsiderable, and usual incouragements, all such\\namong them, who shall marry in the country or\\ncome married thither, shall have a right of lay-\\ning claims to a certain fee farm or quantity of\\nland ready cleared, together with a house built\\nupon it and a stock sufficient to improve and", "height": "3449", "width": "1789", "jp2-path": "aziliahistorical00mont_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "A Z I L I A 21\\ncultivate it, which they shall enjoy, rent and tax\\nfree during life as a reward for their service\\nby which means two very great advantages\\nmust naturally follow; poor labouring men, so\\nsecured of a fixed future settlement, will be\\nthereby induced to go thither more willingly:\\nand act, when there, v dth double diligence and\\nduty, and when their time expires, possessing\\njust land enough to pass their lives at ease and\\nbring their children up honestl}^, the families\\nthey leave will prove a constant seminary of\\nsober servants of both sexes, for the gentry of\\nthe Colony; whereby they will be under no\\nnecessity to use the dangerous help of Black-\\nmoors or Indians; the lands set apart for this\\npurpose, are two miles in breadth, quite round\\nthe District, and lie next within the Margraves\\nown reserved lands above mentioned.\\nThe one hundred and sixteen squares, each of\\nwhich has a house in the middle, are every one\\na mile on each side, or six hundred and forty\\nacres in a square, bating only for the highways\\nwhich divide them these are the estates belong-\\ning to the gentry of the District, who, being so\\nconfined to an equality in land will be profitably", "height": "3422", "width": "1768", "jp2-path": "aziliahistorical00mont_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "22 A z I L I A\\nemulous of ont-doing each other in improve-\\nments, since that is the only way left them to\\ngrow richer than their neighbors and when the\\nMargravate is once become strong enough to\\nfound many Districts, the estates will be all\\ngiven gratis, together with many other benefits\\nto honest and qualified gentleman in Great\\nBritain, or elsewhere, who having numerous\\nand well educated families, possess but little\\nfortunes, other than their industry and will\\ntherefore be chosen to enjoy these advantages,\\nwhich they shall j)ay no rent or other consider-\\nation for, and yet the undertaking will not fail\\nto find its own account in their prosperity.\\nThe four great Parks or rather forests, are\\neach four miles square, that is sixteen miles\\nround each forest, in Avhich are propagated\\nherds of cattle of all sorts by themselves, not\\nalone to serve the uses of the District they be-\\nlong to, but to store such new ones as may from\\ntime to time be measured out on afHuence of\\npeople.\\nThe middle hollow square, which is full of\\nstreets crossing each other, is the City: and the\\nbank, which runs about it on the outside sur-", "height": "3449", "width": "1789", "jp2-path": "aziliahistorical00mont_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "A z I L I A 23\\nrounded with trees, is a large void space, wliicli\\nwill be useful for a thousand purposes, and\\namong the rest, as being airy and affording a\\nline prospect of the Town in drawing near it.\\nIn the center of the City stands the Margraves\\nHouse, which is to be his constant Residence,\\n(or the Residence of the Governor) and contains\\nall sorts of publick edifices for dispatch or busi-\\nness and this again is separated from the City\\nby a space like that, which as above, divides\\nthe town from the countrv.\\nDesign in View of Making Peofit.\\nhe prospects in this point, are more ex-\\ntensive than we think it needful to dis-\\ncover. It were a shame, should we con-\\nf^7, fine the fruitfulness of such a rich and\\nlovely country to some single product, which\\nexample first makes common, and the being-\\ncommon robs of benefit. Thus sugar in Bar-\\nbadoes, Hice in Carolina, and tobacco in Yir-", "height": "3422", "width": "1768", "jp2-path": "aziliahistorical00mont_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "24 A Z I L I A\\ngiuia, take up all the labours of their people,\\noverstock the markets, stifle the demand, and\\nmake their industry their ruin, merely through\\na want of due reflection or diversity of other\\nproducts, equally adapted to their soil and\\nclimate.\\nCoffee, tea, figs raisins, currants, almonds,\\nolives, silk, wine, cochineal, and a great variety\\nof still more rich commodities, which we are\\nforced to buy at mighty rates from countries,\\nlying in the very latitude of our Plantation.\\nAll these we certainly shall propagate though\\nit may perhaps be said, that they are yet but\\ndistant views meanwhile we shall confine our\\nfirst endeavors to such easy benefits as will\\n(without the smallest waiting for the growth of\\nplants) be offered to our industry from the\\nspontaneous wealth which over-runs the country.\\nThe reader may assure himself, our under-\\ntakings upon all occasions, will be the plainest\\nand most ready roads to profit not formed\\nfrom doubtful and untried conceits, nor hani-\\nj)ered by a train of difficulties, none are more\\napt than we to disregard chimerical or rash de-", "height": "3449", "width": "1789", "jp2-path": "aziliahistorical00mont_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "AZILI A.\\nsigns, but it is the business of men s judgment to\\ncliyicle things plain, from things unhkely.\\nWe cannot think it proper to be too particu-\\nlar upon this subject, nor will it, we suppose, be\\nexpected from us. One example however we\\nwill give, because we would present a proof,\\nthat much is practicable there, which has not\\nyet been put in practice we shall pitch on pot-\\nash, a commodity of great consumption in the\\ntrades of dying, glass-making, soap-boiling and\\nsome others not that this is the only present\\nprospect which we build on, but as it is neces-\\nsary we should particularize one benefit, that\\nothers may be credible.\\nAnd here it will not be amiss, if we describe\\nwhat potash is, and how they make it since it\\nis likely some may have attempted it already in\\nthe forest of America, and miscarried by de-\\npending upon ignorant undertakers.\\nIt is not very properly indeed called potash,\\nnot being any kind of ashes, but the fixed and\\nvegetable salt of ashes, which if mixed with wa-\\nter, melts away and turns to lye. For this rea-\\nson it is preferred to all other lixivate ashes,", "height": "3422", "width": "1768", "jp2-path": "aziliahistorical00mont_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "26 AziLiA.\\nforeign or domestick, which not being perfect\\nsalts, but ashes of beanstraw and other vegeta-\\nbles, made stronger by the help of lye bear no\\nproportion as to price with potash itself, which\\nis as we said before, the pure salt without any\\nof the ashes.\\nTo procure this salt in Kussia, and the coun-\\ntries famous for it, they burn great quantities of\\noak, fur, burch and other woods cut down when\\nflourishing, and full of sap the ashes they\\nthrow into boilers or huge caldrons full of wa-\\nter, and extract a thick, sharp lye by boiling.\\nThey let this lye grow clear by settling and then\\ndraw it off, and throw away the ashes left at the\\nbottom. This lye so clariiied, they boil again,\\nand as the watery part evaporates apace they\\nsupply the waste through a small pipe, from\\nanother vessel of the same sort of l^^e, set\\nhigher than the boiler at last, by a continued\\nevaporation the whole vessel becomes full of\\nthick brownish salt, which being dug out in\\nlumps, and afterwards calcined, compleats the\\nwork, and gives a colour to the potash like a\\nwhitish-blue, in which condition it is barreled\\nup, and fit for merchants.", "height": "3449", "width": "1789", "jp2-path": "aziliahistorical00mont_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "A z I L I A 27\\nNothing can be plainer or more easy tlian\\nthis practice in our intended settlement. As to\\nthe boilers, which have ever been the great and\\nterrifying expense and incumbrance of this\\nwork, we shall extremely lessen, and reduce that\\ncharge almost to nothing, by some new methods,\\nbeing an experienced invention wherein we use\\nneither copper, lead, iron, nor other mineral,\\nwhatsoever, and (that excepted) there is no ma-\\nterial necessary but vrood only for wood cut\\ndown and burnt upon the ground affords the\\nashes the rivers every where abounding in that\\ncountry furnishes water ashes and water boiled\\ntogether yield the lye the lye evaporated leaves\\nbehind the salt, and that very salt calcined, be-\\ncomes the potash, and it is packed and sent\\naway in barrels, made and hooped there also.\\nFrom due consideration of these circum-\\nstances, it appears that this must be a rich and\\ngainful undertaking, in a country where the\\ngreatest quantities of timber, and the finest in\\nthe world, cost nothing but the pains of cutting-\\ndown and burning on the banks of navigable\\nrivers where the enlivening influence of the\\nSim prepares the trees much better for this", "height": "3422", "width": "1768", "jp2-path": "aziliahistorical00mont_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "28 A z I L I A\\npractice than in colder climates, and where\\nstubbing up the woods which cover all the set-\\ntlement, will give a sure and double benefit for\\nfirst they yield this valuable traffick^potash,\\nand afterw^ards leave clear the ground they\\ngrov\u00c2\u00bb- on, for producing yearly crops of such\\ncommodities as arc most profitable, and fittest\\nfor the country.\\nThus, having faintly touched the outward\\nlines, and given some prospect of our purpose\\nw^e proceed to the conditions upon wdiich w^e\\nwdll admit of purchasers.\\nThe PiiorosAL.\\no all to wdiom these presents shall come.\\nI, Egbert Montgomery, of Skelmorley,\\nthe Shiredom of Aire in North\\nJ^/^ Britain, Baronet send greeting\\nWhereas, his Excellency the Lord Carteret,\\nPalatine, and the rest of the true and absolute\\nLords Proprietors of the Province of Carolina,\\nin America, have by their Grant, bearing date", "height": "3449", "width": "1789", "jp2-path": "aziliahistorical00mont_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "A z I L I A 29\\nthe nineteentli clay of June last, bargaiuecl, sold,\\naliened, released, enfeoffed and confirmed to me,\\nthe above mentioned Sir Eobeet Montgomery,\\nmy heirs and assigns All that tract of land in\\ntheir said Province, which lies between the\\nrivers Allatamaha and Savanna, and erected the\\nsaid tract into a distinct Province with proper\\nand independent jurisdictions, under the name\\nand title of the Margravate of Azilia, to be held\\nof them the Lords Proprietors of Carolina, by\\nme, my heirs and assigns forever and whereas\\nfor better carrying on my design of transport-\\ning people, and making a new settlement in the\\nsaid Margravate I have made and caused to\\nbe published the proposals hereunto annexed.\\nNow therefore for securing the advantages pro-\\nposed in the said Articles to All, who shall or\\nmay subscribe any sum or sums of money for\\nthe purchase of lands and profits in the Mar-\\ngravate of Azilia, aforesaid and shall on their\\nparts, make good the payments and conditions\\nmentioned in the Articles. I the above named\\nSir Egbert Montgomery do, by these presents,\\nto be enrolled in the High Court of Chancery,\\nin perpetual proof and testimony of the secu-", "height": "3422", "width": "1768", "jp2-path": "aziliahistorical00mont_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "30 A Z I L I A\\nrity hereby designed to be conveyed, engage,\\nbind, mortgage, assign and firmly make subject,\\nthe said Grant Lands, and benefits for making\\ngood the uses in the said Articles expressed in\\nmanner as at large, hereinunder described\\nand I do hereby declare and consent, that the\\ninstruments signed by my hand writing as reci-\\nted in the Seventh Article, shall be deemed and\\nthey are by virtue of these presents, declared to\\nbe a firm and sufiicient proof of title to the re-\\nspective claim therein mentioned to be conveyed\\nby, and upon the security by these presents\\nprovided. And I do hereby authorize and ap-\\npoint David Kennedy, Esqr., in my absence to\\nfill up and deliver the said instruments with all\\nefi ectual authority and irrevocable rights of re-\\npresentatives, which by Letter of Attorney, or\\nby any other form or means whatever, can or\\nmight be deputed to him. And I declare my-\\nself obliged as to the sufiiciency of the writings\\ndelivered, by such act of the said David Ken-\\nnedy, as fimly as if I had in person filled and\\ndelivered the said writings and in case that I\\nSir Egbert Montgomery, or my heirs or assigns\\nor any claiming right, or exercising power by,", "height": "3449", "width": "1789", "jp2-path": "aziliahistorical00mont_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "A Z ILIA. 31\\nfrom or under me, shall at any time hereafter\\nrefuse to submit to the said annexed Articles, or\\nto any of them, or shall under any unjust pre-\\ntence whatsoever forbear the cultivation of the\\npurchasers lands, or consign the annual pro-\\nducts arising therefrom or any part of the same,\\nto any other person or persons, than to the Fac-\\ntor or Factors who shall be appointed by the\\npurchasers or to persons approved by them, or\\nshall refuse or deny admission, residence or oc-\\ncular satisfaction on the spot to any agent,\\nwhom the purchasers may at any time think fit\\nto send over for that purpose. In any of these\\ncases the purchasers shall, by virtue of these\\npresents (any form of law, usage, custom or\\npretence to the contrary notwithstanding) have\\na warrantable, and incontrovertible right and\\nauthority, o procure and obtain present justice\\nto themselves in manner following that is\\nto say upon such breach of covenant the said\\npurchasers shall or may, meet upon the sum-\\nmons of the party injured, or of any other per-\\nson interested, and by a majority of the voices\\npresent, elect a committee of three which com-\\nmittee shall draw up a state of the case they", "height": "3422", "width": "1768", "jp2-path": "aziliahistorical00mont_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "32 A z I L I A\\ncomplain of and present it to me, or my heirs\\nor assigns, or to any agent acting for me or\\nthem, or any of them in London or elsewhere^\\nand if within ten days after such presentation\\nthey receive not due satisfaction from such per-\\nson or agent they shall leave notice in writing\\nat the place of his dwelling, or publish in the\\nGazette, or other authentick News Letter, that\\non some day therein named, they design to lay\\nthe state of their case before the King s Attor-\\nney General and Solicitor General, in London,\\nfor the time being, in order to have their opin-\\nions v/hether the fact they complain of, be, or be\\nnot, a breach of any part of the Articles here-\\nunto annexed, that so the said person or agent,\\nmay attend if he shall have any thing to offer\\nin defence of the matter complained of. And\\nif upon the question the Attorne}^ General shall\\njoin in the opinion, and give it under their\\nhands, that the cause of complaint does plainly\\nappear in their judgments, to be a breach of\\nthe Articles, subscribed to, and such person, as\\nabove described, or some agent acting for him,\\nshall not forthwith make due satisfaction such\\nforbearance to do justice in the case, shall after", "height": "3449", "width": "1789", "jp2-path": "aziliahistorical00mont_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "A Z I L I A 3^\\ntliirty days next following the date of the said\\nwritten opinion, become an absokite forfeiture\\nof the Grant, and from thenceforth all lands,\\nprerogatives, privileges, powers and benefits,\\ny/hatsoever held, claimed or enjoyed b}^ virtue\\nof the said Grant, shall be taken possession of,\\nfor the sole future use of the body of purchasers,\\nand shall be carried on to their general advan-\\ntage and according to their orders and directions,\\nby any person or persons whom they shall\\nchoose by a majority of their voices and send\\nover to that purpose. And that no possible\\nlet or impediment on my part, or the part of my\\nheirs or assigns, may in any sort incommode or\\nprevent the most strict and iiumediate perform-\\nance of this covenant. I, the said Sir Robekt,\\ndo hereby renounce for myself, and all claiming\\nfrom me, all pleas, prerogatives, privileges and\\npretences, whatsoever, which I or they, may by\\nthe said Grant, or by any form, custom or mode\\nof proceeding at lav/ be possessed of, or entitled\\nto and I do consent and declare, that when the\\nwritten opinion above mentioned of the Attor-\\nney and Solicitor General, in London, shall be\\nproduced to the Lords Proprietors of Carolina,.", "height": "3422", "width": "1768", "jp2-path": "aziliahistorical00mont_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "34 A z I L I A\\nand sent over to their Deputies at Charles Town,\\nand be entered in their journal it shall stand\\nas a determinate judgment recorded against me\\nor them, after which no appeal shall be lawful,\\nand possession shall be given immediately that\\nis to say no other process shall be needful than\\ntwenty days notice from the Governor and\\nCouncil at Charles Town, above mentioned.\\nI rom which time forever, if full satisfaction be\\nnot made within the said twenty days, as well\\nin the matter complained of, as by payment of\\nall costs and damages sustained by the com-\\nplainants, the purchasers shall in right of them-\\nselves, and by virtue of these presents, possess,\\noccupy and enjoy all manner of authorities,\\nterritories and advantages of what kind soever,\\narising from the Grant above said, and I, the\\nsaid Sir Bobeet Montgomery, my heirs and\\nassigns shall effectually stand excluded, both in\\nlaw and equity to all intents and purposes, as if\\nthe said Grant had never been made.\\nIn witness whereof, I have hereunto set my\\nhand and seal, this Fifteenth day of July, in the\\nThird year of the Eeign of our Sovereign Lord", "height": "3449", "width": "1789", "jp2-path": "aziliahistorical00mont_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "A z I L I A 35\\nGeorge, by the grace of God, of Great Britain,\\nFrance and Ireland, King: Defender of tlie\\nFaith, c.\\nE. 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