{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3709", "width": "2053", "jp2-path": "discourseconcern00mont_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3709", "width": "2053", "jp2-path": "discourseconcern00mont_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3709", "width": "2053", "jp2-path": "discourseconcern00mont_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3709", "width": "2053", "jp2-path": "discourseconcern00mont_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "rii\\nA\\nDi s cou r se\\nConcerning the design d\\nESTABLISHMENT\\nOf a New\\nCOLONY\\nTO THE\\nSouth of Carolina^\\nIN THE\\nMost delightful Country of the\\nUniverse.\\nBy Sir Robkut MouiNTGomry, Baronet,\\nC30\\nLONDON: Printed ia the Year nn,", "height": "3709", "width": "2053", "jp2-path": "discourseconcern00mont_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "p. Force, Washingtdn, 1835", "height": "3709", "width": "2053", "jp2-path": "discourseconcern00mont_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "DISCOURSE\\nT will perhaps afford some Satisfaction to the Gentlemen o(\\nCarolina, to know, that my Design arises not from any sud-\\nde 1 Motive, but a strong Bent of Genius 1 inherit from my An-\\ncestors One of whom was among those Knights of Nova Scotia\\npurposely created near a hundred Years ago, for settling a Scots\\nColony in America, But the Conquest of that Country by the\\nFrench prevented his Design, and so it lies on his Posterity to\\nmake good his Intentions for the Service of their Country.\\nThe Humour however Descended, and ran down with the\\nBlood For my Father was so far of this Opinion, that, toge-\\nther with Lord Cardross the late Earl of Buchan, and some\\nother Gentlemen, he enter d into Measures for Establishing a\\nSettlement on Port-Royal River m South- Carolina, and Lord\\nCardross went thither in Person but the Spaniards dislodg d\\nthem, and destroy d the Plantation Advantage being taken of\\nsome Confusions, which arose through the want of full Powers,\\nand distinct Jurisdiction.\\nThe charming Descriptions, which on this last Occasion, T\\nmet with, of the natural Sweetness, and Beauties, of Carolina,\\ninspir d me with an early Affection to that Place, in particular.\\n_But the Wars intervening, and calling for my Sword, in the more\\nnnmediate Service of my Country, gave me no Opportunity to\\nput in Practice certain Schemes which occur d, effectually\\nforming a Settlement there, till just now when together with\\nsome of my Friends, who unite their Endeavours with mine, I am\\nlike, by continuance of the Indian Disturbances, to enjoy my\\nown Wish, with the Additional Pleasure of being useful to the\\nProvince.\\nTho our Design does not altogether depend on the Subscrip-\\ntion of Purchasers, herein propos d, yet our own Stock so en-\\ncreas d ^\\\\^ll be made more effectual, and we shall give at the\\nsame TiiTie an Opportunity to many of Sharing in our Benefits,\\nwho cou d not be otherwise concern d in the Undertaking.\\nIf therefore, the Offer, which we make, shall meet widi Ed-\\nik\\nT-", "height": "3709", "width": "2053", "jp2-path": "discourseconcern00mont_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "couragement, twill, by Dividing our Burthen, somewhat lighten\\nit; If it fails, twill no further Disappoint us, than as it leaves us\\nto do That alone, which might better, be done with the e.s pected\\nAssistance.\\nR. MOUNTGOMRY.\\nOf the Motives, and FoundatiGn of the UndertaJking.\\nPLANTATIONS of new Countries, says the Great Lord\\nBacon, are among the Primitive, and most Heroick Works\\ny.f Man. They are meritorious in a double Sense Religiously,\\nas they illuminate the Souls of Heathens through the Darkness\\nof their Ignorance, and Politically, as they strengthen the Do-\\nminion, v^fhich sends out the Colony, and wonderfully more than\\nany other Means enrich the Undertakers.\\nBut as such Attempts are Great, so also are they Dangerous.\\nOne early Caution easily secures their future Benefits one little\\nError in Foundation overthrows the Building. It is to a Defect\\nin setting out, that all our noble Colonies upon the Western\\nContinent have ow d their Disappointments To a tvant of due\\nPrecaution in tJieir Forms of Settling, or rather, to their settling\\nwithout any Form at all The Planters grasp d at an undue Ex-\\ntent of Land, exceeding their Capacity to manage, or defend\\nThis scatter d them to Distances unsafe, and solitary, so that,\\nliving in a Wilderness, incapable of mutual Aid, the necessary\\nArtizans found no Encouragement to dwell among them Their\\nWoods remain d unclear d their Fens undrain d The Air by\\nthat Means prov d unliealthy, and the Roads impassable For\\nwant of Towns, and Places of Defence, they suddenly became\\na Prey to all Invaders even the unformidable Indians took Ad-\\nvantage of the Oversight and Carolina, is, at present, groaning\\nunder a most bloody Persecution, iiom a wild and despicable\\nKind of Enemy, who had not dar d to think of the Attempt, but\\nfrom an Observation daily made, how open and unguarded they\\nmight take the English.\\nFrom these Examples, and the Neighbourhood of the intend-\\ned Settlement to Cnrolina thus distressed, our future Eden,\\nmade early wise by Dangers, which she feels not, would not only\\nfix her Foot upon a firm Foundation, so as to resist a Storm\\nHerself, but she wou d also spread her Wings to a Capacity of\\nShadowing Others A British Colony, shou d like the Roman,\\ncarry with it always something of the Mothers Glory.\\nExcited therefore, by an earnest Inclination to establish such\\na Settlement, as may, by new Means, yield new Benefits, as well\\nin Wealth, as Safety, and resolving to proceed upon a Scheme", "height": "3709", "width": "2053", "jp2-path": "discourseconcern00mont_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "entirely difTereiit from any hitherto attempled, and which appears\\nto promise great, and inexpressible Advantages the Grant on\\nwhich we found the Undertaking, will be seen in the following\\nAbstract.\\npHE underwritten Palatine ;md Lords Proprietors of the\\nProvince of Carolina, do on tlie Considerations herein\\nafter mention d, grant, sell, ahen, release, and confirm to Sir\\nRobert Mountgomry, Baronet, his Heirs, and Assigns, for\\never, all that Tract of Land, which lies between the Rivers\\nAl/atamaha, and Savanna, together with the Islands, Ports,\\nHarbours, Bays, and Rivers on that Part of the Coast, which\\nlies between the Mouths of the said two Rivers to the Sea-\\nward and moreover all Veins, Mines, and Quarries of Gold,\\nand Silver, and all other whatever, be they of Stones, Metals\\nor any other Things found, or to be found within that Tract\\nof Land, and the Limits aforesaid With Liberty over and\\nabove to make Settlements on the South Side of Allatamaha\\nRiver, which Tract of Land the said underwi itten Lords do\\nerect into a distinct Province, with proper Jurisdictions, Pri-\\nviledges, Prerogatives, and Franchises, Independent of, and\\nnot Subject to the Laws of South Carolina, to be holden of\\nthe said Lords by Sir Robert, his heirs, and Assigns for ever,\\nunder the Name and Title of the Margravatc of AziJia at\\nand under the yearly Quitrent of one Penny Sterling per\\nAcre, or its Value in Goods, or Merchandise, as the Land\\nshall be occupied, taken up, or run out Payable yearly to the\\nLords Proprietors Ofticers at Charles-Toivn, but such Pay-\\nment not to commence, till three Years after Arrival of the\\nfirst Ships there, which shall be sent over to begin the Set-\\ntlement; over and above which Penny |je7- Acre, Sir Robert,\\nhis Heirs, and Assigns, shall also yield, and pay to the Lords\\nProprietors, one fourth Part of all Gold, or Silver Oar, be-\\nsides the Quota reserv d to the Crown out of the said Royal\\nMinerals Distinct Courts of Judicature to be erected, and\\nsuch Laws enacted within the Margravatc, by and with the\\nAdvice, Assent, and Approbation of the Freemen thereof in\\nPublick Assembly, as shall be most conducive to the Utility\\nof the said Margravate, and as near as may be conveniently\\nagreeable to the Laws, and Customs of England, but so as\\nsuch Laws do not extend to lay Duties or Custom, or other\\nObstruction upon the Navigation of either of tlie said Rivers,\\nby any Inhabitant of South, or North Carolina, or their free\\nCommerce and Trade with the Indian Nations, either within,.\\nor to the Southward of the Margravate, Sir Robert consenting\\nthat the same Duty shall be charged on Skins within the\\nMargravate, which at this Time stands charg d on such Skins\\nin South Carolina, and appropriated to the Maintenance of", "height": "3709", "width": "2053", "jp2-path": "discourseconcern00mont_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "the Clergy there, so long as that Duty is continued in iSouth\\nCarolina, but the said Duty shall not be encreas d in Azilia,\\nthe the Assembly of South Carolina shou d think fit to en-\\ncrease it there, nor shall it longer continue to be paid, than\\nwhile it shall remain appropriated, as at present, to the Main-\\ntenance of the Clergy only: In Consideration of all which\\nPowers, Rights, Priviledges, Prerogatives, and Franchises, Sir\\nRobert shall Transport at his own Expence, a considerable\\nNumber of Families with all Necessaries for making a new\\nSettlement in the said Tract of Land, and in Case it be\\nneglected for the Space of three Years from the Date of this\\nGrant, The then Grant shall become void, any Thing herein\\ncontain d to the contrary notwithstanding. Dated June the\\nNineteenth, 1717. Cartaret, Palatme.\\nJa. Bertie for tlie\\nDuke of Beaufort.\\nM. Ashley.\\nJohn Colleton, ^*c.\\nA Description of the Country.\\nT T lies about the 31 5^ and 32 Z Degree of Northern Latitude,\\nis bounded Eastward by the great Atlantick Sea, To the \\\\V est\\nby a Part of the Apalachiau Mountains, and to the North and\\nSouth by the two great Rivers, mention d in the Grant.\\nIn the Maps of North America it may be taken Notice of, how\\nwell this Country lies for Trade with all our Colonies, and in\\nRegard to every other Prospect, which can make a Situation\\nhealthy, profitable, lovely, and inviting Florida, of which it is\\na Part, receiv d that Name from its delightful, ^orzV, and agree-\\nable Appearance.\\nIt has been commonly observ d, that gay Descriptions of new\\nCountries raise a Doubt of their Sincerity. Men are apt to\\nthink the Picture drawn beyond the Life, to serve the Interest\\nof the Representer To shun the Prejudice of this Opinion,\\nwhatever shall be said upon the Subject here, is all extracted\\nfrom our English Writers, who are very numerous, and univer-\\nsally agree, that Carolina, and especially in its *S oMi^er?i Bounds,\\nis the most amiable Country of the Universe That Nature has\\nnot bless d the World with any Tract, which can be preferable\\nto it, that Paradise with all her Virgin Beauties, may be modest-\\nly suppos d at most but equal to its Native Excellencies.\\nIt lies in the same Latitude with Palestine Herself, That\\npromis d Canaan, which was pointed out by God s own Choice,\\nto bless the Labours of a favourite People It abounds with\\nRivers, Woods, and Meadows. Its gentle Hills are full of Mine?,", "height": "3709", "width": "2053", "jp2-path": "discourseconcern00mont_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "Lead, Copper, Iron, and even some of ^Silver Tis beautifui\\nwith odoriierous Plants, green all the Year. Pine, Cedar, Cy-\\npress, Oak, Elm, Ash, or Walnut, with innumerable other Sorts,\\nboth Fruit or Timber Trees grow every where so pleasantly\\nthat tho tliey meet at Top, and shade the Traveller, they are.\\nat the same Time, so distant in their Bodies, and so free honi\\nUnderwood, or Bushes, that the Deer, and other Game, which\\nfeed in Droves along these Forests, may be often seen near half\\na Mile between them.\\nThe Air is healthy, and the Soil in general fruitful, and of\\ninfinite Vai iety Vines, naturally flourishing upon the Hills, bear\\nGrapes in most luxuriant Plenty. They have every Growth,\\nwhich we possess in England, and almost every Thing that\\nEngland wants besides. The Orange, and the Limon thrive in\\nthe same common Orchard with the Apple, and the Pear-Tree,\\nPlumbs, Peaches, Apricots, and Nectarins, bear from Stones in\\nthree Year s growing. The Planters raise large Orchards oi\\nthese Fruits to feed their Hogs with Wheat Ears have been\\nmeasur d there seven Inches long, and they have Barly, Beans,\\nPease, Rice, and all our Grains, Roots, Herbs, and Flowers not\\nto speak of Numbers of their own, which we can find no Names\\nfor; Beef, Mutton, Pork, Tame Poultry, Wild Fowl, Sea and\\nRiver Fish, are all there Plentiful, and most at lower Rates, than\\nin the cheapest Parts of Wales, or Scotland.\\nThe many Lakes, and pretty Rivulets throughout the Pro-\\nvince, breed a Multitude of Geese, and other Water Fowl The\\nAir is found so temperate, and the Seasons of the Year so very\\nregular, that there is no Excess of Heat, or Cold, nor any sud-\\nden Alterations in the Weather The River Banks are cover d\\nwith a strange Variety of lovely Trees, which being always\\ngreen, present a thousand Landskips to the Eye, so fine, and so\\ndiversified, that the Sight is entirely charm d with them the\\nGround lies sloping towards the Rivers, but, at a Distance rises\\ngradually, and intermingles like Hills of Wood with fruitful\\nPlains, all cover d over with wild Flowers, and not a Tree to\\ninterrupt the Prospect Nor is this tempting Country yet inha-\\nbited, except those Parts in the Possession of the English, unless\\nby here and there a Tribe of wandering Indians, wild and igno-\\nrant, all artless, and uncultivated, as the Soil, which fosters them.\\nOf the Form proposed in Settling.\\nUR Meaning here relates to what immediate Measures will\\nbe taken, for Security against the Insults of the Natives,\\nduring the Infancy of our Affairs; To which End we shall not", "height": "3709", "width": "2053", "jp2-path": "discourseconcern00mont_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "satisfie ourselves with building here and there a Fort, the fatal\\nPractice of America, but so dispose the Habitations, and Divi-\\nsions of the Land, that not alone our Houses, but whatever we\\npossess, will be enclos d by Military Lines, inipregnable against\\nthe Savages, and which will make our wliole Plantation one\\ncontinued Fortress.\\nIt need not be suppos d, that all the Lands will thus be forti-\\nfied at once The first Lines drawn will be in just Proportion to\\nthe Number of Men they enclose As the Inhabitants encrease.\\nNew Lines will be made to enclose them also, so that all the\\nPeople will be always safe within a well defended Lime of Cir-\\ncumvallation.\\nThe Reader will allow, it is not necessary, that these Re-\\ntrenchments be of Bulk, like those of Europe small Defence is\\nstrong against the poor unskilful Natives of America; They\\nhave accomplish d all their bloody Miscliiefs by Surprizes, and\\nIncursions, but durst never think of a Defyance to Artillery.\\nTJie Massacres, and frequent Ruins, which have fallen upon\\nsome English Settlements for want of this one Caution, have\\nsufficiently instructed us, that Strength, producing Safety, is the\\nPoint, which shou d be chiefly weigh d in such Attempts as these\\nSolon had Reason when he said to Crafus, looking on his Trea-\\nsure You are rich indeed, and so far you are mighty; But\\nif any Man should come with sharper steel then Yours, how\\neasily iinlJ he be made the Master of your Gold\\nAt the Arrival iheretbre of the first Men carried over, proper\\nOfficers shall mark, and cause to be entrench d a Square of Land,\\nin just Proportion to their Number On the Outsides of this\\nSquare, within the little Bastions, or Redoubts of the Entrench-\\nment, they raise light Timber Dwellings, cutting down the Trees,\\nwhich every where encompass them The Officers are quarter-\\ned with the Men, whom they command, and the Governour in\\nChief is plac d exactly in the Center: By these means the la-\\nbouring People (being so dispos d, as to be always watchful of\\nan Enemies Approach) are themselves within the Eye of those,\\nset over them, and All together under the Inspection of their\\nPrincipal.\\nThe Redoubts may be near enough to defend Each other\\nwith Musquets, but Field Pieces, and Patarero s will be planted\\nupon Each, kept charged with Cartridge shot, and Pieces of old\\nIron Within these Redoubts are the Common Dwellings of the\\nMen who must defend them Between them runs a Palisadoe d\\nBank, and a Ditch, which will be Scour d by t)ie Artillery.\\nOne Man in Each Redoubt kept Night and Day, upon the Guard,\\nwill give alarm upon Occasion to the others at their Work. So\\nthey cultivate their Lands, Secure their Cattle, and follow their", "height": "3709", "width": "2053", "jp2-path": "discourseconcern00mont_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "9\\n13usiness with great Ease, and Safety. Exactly in the Centre\\nel tlie inmost Square will be a Foi t, defended by large Cannon,\\npointing Every way, and capable of making strong llesi.Hance,\\nin Case some Quarter of the outward Lines shou d chance to be\\nsurpriz d, by any sudden Accident, which yet with tolerable Care\\nwou d be impracticable.\\nThe Nature of this Scheme, when weigh d against the Igno-\\nrance, and wildness of the Natives, will shew, that Men thus\\nsettled, may at once defend, and cultivate a Territory, with the\\nutmost Satisfaction, and Security, even in the Heart oi an lv: ian\\nCountry, Tlien liow much rather in a Place considerably distant\\nfrom the Savage Settlements.\\nAs the Numbers shall encrease, and they go on to clear more\\nSpace of Land, they are to regulate their Settlements with hke\\nRegard to Safety, and Improvement And indeed tlie Diilerence,\\nas to Time, and Labour, is not near so great as may be thought,\\nbetwixt enclosing Land this Way, and following the dangerous\\ncommon Jvlethod But what is here already said will serve the\\nEnd, for which it has been wrhten, which was only to give a\\ngeneral Notion of the Care and Caution we propose to act with.\\nIt will not, however, be amiss, as you have seen the first rude\\nForm of our Azilia in her Infancy, to view her also in the Ful-\\nness of her Beauty And to that End we \\\\va\\\\ e afhx d a Plan of\\none whole District, clear d, planted, and inhabited; For as the\\nCountry thrives, all future Townships will be form d according to\\nthis Plan, and measur d out as near Each other as the Rivers,\\nHills, and other natural Impediments will any way admit of.\\nBut least it shou d be fear d from tl.e Correctness ol this\\nModel, that twill be a Work of too great Difliculty, and require a\\nmighty Length of Time to bring it to perlection, we tlnik it pro-\\nper to declare, that Purchasers will not be obliged to wait this\\nForm of Settlement, but are entitled to the immediate Piotits of\\npeculiar Lands, assign d them, from the very first Arrival of the\\nColony which Lands, being set apart for t nat Purpose, will be\\nstrongly enclos d, and defended by ttie Lines, or Entrenchments\\nbefore mention d.\\nNeither wou d we have it thought a Labour so tedious, as tis\\ngenerally fancy d, to establish in this manner a Colony, which\\nmay become not only an Advantage, hut a. Glory to the Nation:\\nWe have Prospects before us most attractive, and unprecedented,\\nin the three tempting Points Wealth, Safety, and Liberty: Ben-\\nefits, like these, can never fail of drawing Numbers of Inhabitants\\nfrom Every Corner: And, Men once got together, tis as easy to\\ndispose them regularly, and whh due Regard to Order, Beauty,\\nand the Comforts of Society, as to leave them to the Folly of", "height": "3709", "width": "2053", "jp2-path": "discourseconcern00mont_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "10\\nfixing at Random, and destroying their Interest by indulging their\\nHumour; So that we have more than ordinary Cause to expect,\\nthat in a very short Time, we shall be able to present the solid\\nLife its self, as now we give the Shadoiv only, in the Ibllow-\\ning Explanation.\\nYou mu?t suppc^e a level, dry, and fruitful Tract of Land, in\\nsome fine Plain or Valley, containing a just Square of twenty\\nMiles Each Way, or two hundred and fifty six thousand Acres,\\nlaid out, and settled, in the Form, presented, in the Cut annexed.\\nThe District is defended by sufficient Numbers of Men, who,\\ndwelling in the fortified Angles of the Line, will be employ d in\\ncultivating Lands, which are kept in Hand for the particular\\nadvantage of the Margrave These Lands suiTound the District\\njust within the Lines, and every where contain in Breadth one\\nMile exactly.\\nThe Men, thus employ d, are such, as shall be hir d in Great\\nBritain or Ireland, well disciplin d, arm d, and carried over, on\\nCondition to serve faithfully for such a Term of Years, as they\\nbefore shall agree to And, that no Man may be Avretched in so\\nhappy a Country, at the Expiration of those Peoples Time;\\nbesides some otiier considerable, and unusual Incouragements, all\\nsuch, among them, who shall marry in the Country, or come\\nmarried thither, shall have a Right of laying claim to a certain\\nFee-Farm, or Quantity of Land, ready clear d, together with a\\nHouse built upon it, and a stock sufficient to improve, and cul-\\ntivate it, which they shall enjoy, Rent, and Tax free, during\\nLife, as a Reward for their Services; By which Means two very\\ngreat Advantages must naturally follow; Poor labouring Men, so\\nsecur d ol a fix d future Settlement, will be thereby induc d to\\ngo thither more willingly; and act, when there, with double\\nDilligence, and Duty And when their Time expires, possessing\\njust Land enough to pass their Lives at Ease, and bring their\\nChildren up honestly, the Families they leave will prove a con-\\nstant Seminary of sober Servants, of Both Sexes, for the Gentry\\nof the Colony whereby they will be under no necessity to use\\nthe Dangerous Help of Blackamoors, or Indians The Lands\\nset apart for this Purpose, are two Miles in Breadth, quite round\\nthe District, and lie next within the Margraves own reserv d\\nLands abovemention d.\\nThe 116 Squares, Each of which has a House in the Middle,\\nare. Every one a Mile on Each Side, or 640 Acres in a Square,\\nbating only for the High Ways, which divide them These are\\nthe Estates, belonging to the Gentry of the District, who, being\\nso confin d to an Equality in Land, will be profitably Emulous\\nof out doing Each other in Improvement, since that is the only", "height": "3709", "width": "2053", "jp2-path": "discourseconcern00mont_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "u\\nwa}, left them to grow richer than theh INeighbours; And when\\nthe iVlargravate is once become strong enough to form many\\nDistricts, the Estates will be all given gratis, together with many\\notlier benefits, to honest and qiiahiied Gentlemen in Great Bri-\\n^ai/i, or elsewhere, who having Numerous and well-educated Fam-\\nihes, possess but little Fortunes, other than their Industry; and\\nwill tlierefore be chosen to enjoy these Advantages, which they\\nshall pay no Rent, or other Consideration for; and yet the Under-\\ntaking will not tail to find its own Account in their Prosperity.\\nTiie four great Parks, or rather Forrests, are Each four Miles\\nSfjuare, that is Id Miles round each Forrest, in which are pro-\\npagated Herds of Catde of all Sorts by tiiemselves, not alone to\\nserve the use of the District, they belong to, but to store such\\n^tw Ones, as may from Time to Time be measur d out, on\\nAffluence of People.\\nThe Middle hollow Square, which is full of Streets crossing\\neach other, is the City, And the Bank, whicli runs about it, on the\\nout-side surrounded witli Trees, is a large void Space, which will\\nbe useful for a thousand Purposes, and, among the rest, as being\\nairy, and affording a fine Prospect of the Town in Drawing near\\nit.\\nIn the Center of the City stands the Margraves House, which\\nis to be his constant Residence, or the Residence of theGovern-\\nour, and contains all sorts of publick Edifices for Dispatch of\\nBusiness and this again is separated from the City by a Space,\\nlike that, which, as above, divides the Town from the Country.\\nOf some Designs in View for making Profit.\\nI |UR Prospects in this Point, are more entensive than we think\\nit needful to discover It were a Shame shou d we confine\\nthe Fruitfulness of such a rich and lovely Country to some single\\nProduct, which Example first makes common, and the heing\\ncommon robs of Benefit. Thus Sugar in Barhadoes, Rice in\\nCarolina, and Tobacco in Virginia, take u]) all the Labours of\\ntheir People, overstock the Markets, stifle the Demand, and make\\ntheir Industry their Ruin, merely through a Want of due Reflec-\\ntion on Diversity of other Products, equally adapted to their\\nSoil and Climate.\\nCoffee, Tea, Figs, Raisins, Currants, Almonds, Olives, Silk,\\nWine, Cochineal, and great Variety of still more rich Commodi-\\nties, which we are forc d to buy at mighty Rates from Coun-\\ntries, lying in the very Latitude of our Plantations All these we\\ncertainly shall Propagate, tho it may Perhaps be said, that they\\nare yet but distant Views; mean while, we shall confine our first", "height": "3709", "width": "2053", "jp2-path": "discourseconcern00mont_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "12\\nEndeavours to such easy Benefits, as will (without the smallest\\nwaiting for the Growth of Plants) be offer d to our Industry,\\nfrom the spontaneous Wealth, which overruns the Country.\\nThe Reader may assure himself, our Undertakings upon all\\nOccasions, will be the plainest, and most ready Roads to Profit\\nnot Ibrm d from doubtiul, and untried Conceits, nor hamper d by\\na Train of Difficulties none are more apt than we to disregard\\nChimerical, or rash Designs but tis the Business of Men s\\nJudgment to divide Things ^j/ftin from Tilings unUkeh/.\\nWe cannot think it proper to be too particular upon this Sub-\\nject, nor will it, w-e suppose, be expected Irom us One Example,\\nhowever, we will give, because we wou d present a Proof, that\\nmuch IS pracficaVle there, which lias not yet been yut in Frac-\\ntice; we shall Pitch on Pot-ash, a Commodity of great Con-\\nsumption in the Trades of Dying, Glass-maJcing, Soap-hoiUng\\nand some others not that this is the only present Prospect\\nwhich we build on, but as tis necessary we shou d particularize\\none Benefit, that others may be credible.\\nAnd here it will not be amiss, if we describe what Pot-ash is,\\nand iiow they make it since, tis likely, som.e may have attempt-\\ned it already, in the Forests of America, and miscamed, by\\ndepending upon ignorant Undertakers.\\nIt is not very properly indeed call d Pot-ash, not being any\\nkind of yh :c.s, but the fix d, and vegetable Sah of Ashes, which,\\nif mix d with Water, melts away, and turns to Lye; For this\\nReason tis preferr d to all other Lixiviate Ashes, Foreign, or\\nDomestick, which, not being perfect Salts, but Ashes of Bean-\\nStraw, and other Vegetables, made stronger by the Help of Lye,\\nbear no Proportion, as to Price, with Pot-ash itself, which is, as\\nwe said before, tb.e pure Sah without any of the Ashes.\\nTo procure this Salt, in Russia, and the Countries famous for\\nit, tliey burn great Quantities of Oak, Firr, Birch, and other\\nWoods, cut down, wlien flourishing, and full of Sap The Ashes\\nthey tlu-ow into Boilers, or huge Caldrons full of Water, and ex-\\ntract a thick, sharp Lye by boiling They let this Lye grow clear\\nby setriing, and then draw it off, and throw away the Ashes lefi\\nat Bottom.\\nTais Lye, so clarified, they boil again, and as the Watry Part\\nevaporates apace, they supply the Waste thro a small Pipe, from\\nanotiier Vessel of the same Sort of Lye, set higher than the\\nBoiler At last, by a continued Evaporation, the whole Vessel\\nbecomes full of a thick brownish Salt, which being dug out in\\nLumps, and afterwards calcin d, compleats the Work, and gives\\na Colour to the Pot-ash, like a whitish Blue, in which Condition\\nit is barrell d up, and fit for Merchants.\\nNothing can be plainer, or more easy than this Practice in our", "height": "3709", "width": "2053", "jp2-path": "discourseconcern00mont_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "13\\nintended Settlement As to the Boilers, wliicb have ever been the\\ngreat, and teviitying Expence and Encmubrance of tliis Work,\\nwe shctli extreamly lessen, and reduce that Charge almost to\\nnothing, by some uew Methods, he\\\\n r an experienc d Invention,\\nwherein we use neither Copjier, Lead, Iron, nor other Mineral\\nwhatsoever, and (tiiat excepted) there is no Material necessary,\\nbut i V jod only; For Wood cut down, and burnt upon the\\nGround, affords t!ie Ashes; The Rivers every where abounding\\nin that Country furnish Water Ashes, and Water boil d together,\\nyield tne L:je The Lye evaporated, leaves behind the Salt, Siud\\nthat very Salt calcin d, becomes the Pot-ash, and it is pack d,\\nand sent away in Barrels, made and hoop d there also.\\nFrom due Consideration of these Circumstances, it appears,\\nthat tiiis must be a rich, and gainful Undertaking in a Country\\nw! ere the greatest Quantities of Timber, and the finest in the\\nWorld, cost nothing but the Pains of cutting down, and burning,\\non the Banks of Navigable Rivers where the enlivening influ-\\nence of the Sun prepares the Trees much better for this Practice,\\nthan in colder Climates, and where stubbing up the Woods,\\nwhich coverall the Settlement, will give a sure, and double Bene-\\nfit for first they yield this aluable Traflick Potash, and afterwards\\nleave clear the Ground, they grow on, for producing yearly Crops\\nof such Commodities, as are most profitable, and fittest for the\\nCountry.\\nThus, having faintly touch d the outward Lines, and given\\nsome Prospect of our Purpose, we proceed to the Conditions,\\nupon which we will admit of Purchasers.\\nThe PROPOSAL.\\nOTE that, for the Purchasers Security, and effectually ma-\\nking good their Claims, as well to the Land, which they shall\\nbuy, as to all the other Benefits propos d in the following Articles,\\nTlie whole Country, and its Improvements in all Times to come,\\nis settled as a Mortgage and made liable in manner, as here un-\\nder recited, in which such unusual, and equitable Regard has\\nbeen had, for avoiding all Charge, or Delay, in Respect to the\\nDistance of Countries, and the Difficulties, A\\\\hich might thence\\nbe suspected to arise, in obtaining Satisfaction by the ordinary\\nCourse of the Laws, that nothing of Foryn, or Kxpence will be\\nnecessary but, on the first Breach of Covenant, an Easy and\\nimmediate Possession may be taken of the forfeited Province,\\nand for ever maintain d against all kind of Pleas or Pretences for\\nthe use of the Purchasers. And, that perpetual and unobjec-\\ntionable Testimony may remain, for the more absolute securing the", "height": "3709", "width": "2053", "jp2-path": "discourseconcern00mont_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "14\\nRights of the Purchasers, the following Deed, together with the\\nArticles themselves, stands enrolled in the High Court of Chan-\\ncery.\\nri^O All to whom these Presents shall come I Robert Mount-\\ngomry of Skelmorley in tlie Sheridom of Aire in JSorth-\\nBritain Baronet send Greeting. Whereas Kis Excellency the\\nLord Carteret Palatine^ and the Rest of the true and absolute\\nLords Proprietors of the Province of Carolina in America have\\nby their Grant, bearing Date the Nineteenth Day of June last,\\nbargain d, sold, alien d, releas d, enieolT d, and confirm d to Me\\nthe abovemention d Sir Robert Motintgomry, my lieirs, and As-\\nsigns, all that Tract of Land in their said Province, whicli lies\\nbetween the Rivers Atlatamaha and Savanna, and erected the\\nsaid Tract into a distinct Province, wtih proper and independant\\nJurisdiction^, under the Name and Title of the Mcrgravate of\\nAziiia, to be held of them the Lords Pi oprietors of Carolina\\nby me, my Heirs and Assigns for ever and whereas for better\\ncarrying on my design of transporting People and making a new\\nSettlement in the said Margravate I have made and caused to\\nbe publish d tlie Proposals hereunto annex d, Now Therefore for\\nsecuring the Advantages proposed in tlie said Articles to all, who\\nshall or may Subscribe any Sum or Sums of Money for the Pur-\\nchase of Lands and Profits in the Margravate of Aziiia afore-\\nsaid, and shall on their parts, make good the Payments and Con-\\nditions mention d in the Articles, I the abovenamed Sir Robert\\nMountgomry do, by these Presents to be enroll d in the High Court\\nof Chancery, in perpetual Proof and Testimony of the Security\\nhereby design d to be conveyed, engage, bind, mortgage, assign,\\nand firmly make subject the said Grant, Lands, and benefits for\\nmaking Good the Uses in the said Articles expres d m Manner,\\nas at large herein under describ d And I do hereby declare and\\nconsent, that the Instruments sign d by my Hand writing as reci-\\nted in the seventh Article, shall be deem d and they are by vir-\\ntue of these Presents declar d to be, a firm, and sufficient Proof\\nof Title to the respective Claim therein mention d to be convey d\\nby and upon the Security by these Presents provided And I do\\nhereby authorize and appoint David Kennedy, Esq in my Ab-\\nsence to fill up, and deliver the said Instruments with all efi ectual\\nAuthority, and irrevocable Right of Representation, which by\\nLetter of Attorney, or by any other Form or Means whatever,\\ncan or might be deputed to Him, And I declare myself obliged,\\nas to the sufficiency of the Writings delivered by such Act of\\nthe said David Kennedy, Esq as firmly as if I had in Person\\nfiU d and deliver d the said Writings And in Case that I Sir\\nRobert Mountgomry, or my Heirs, or Assigns, or any claiming\\nRight, or exercising Power by, from, or under me, shall at any", "height": "3709", "width": "2053", "jp2-path": "discourseconcern00mont_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "15\\ntime lierealter refuse to submit to the said annex d Articles or to\\nany of them, or shall under any unjust Pretence whatsoever\\nforbear the Cultivation of the Purchasers Lands, or consign the\\nannual Products, arising therelrom, or any Part of the same, to\\nanv other i^erson, or Persons, than to tlie Factor, or Factors, who\\nshall be appointed by the Purchasers, or to Persons approved by\\nthem, or shall refuse, or deny admission, Residence, or ocular\\nsatisfaction on the Spot to any Agent, whom the Purchasers may\\nat any time think lit to send over for that Purpose; In any of\\nthese Cases the Purchasers shall, by virtue of these Presents\\n(any Form of Law, Usage, Custom, or Pretence to the contrary\\nnotwithstanding) have a warrantable, and incontrovertible Right,\\nand Authority, to procure, and obtain present Justice to them-\\nselves in Manner following, That is to say: Upon such Breach of\\nCovenant the said Purchasers shall, or may meet upon the Sum-\\nmons of the Party injur d, or of any other Person interested,\\nand by a Majority of the Voices present elect a Committee of\\nThree, which Committee shall draw up a State of the Case they\\ncomplain of. And present it to me, or my Heirs or Assigns, or to\\nany Agent acting for me, or them, or any of them in London, or\\nelsewhere, and if within ten Days after such Presentation they\\nreceive not due Satisfaction from such Person, or Agent, they shall\\nleave Notice in Writing at the Place of his dwellhig, or publish\\nin the Gazette, or other Authentick News Letter, that on some\\nday therein to be named, they design to lay the State of their\\nCase before the Kings Attorney General, and Solicitor General\\nin London for tlie Time being, in order to have their Opinion,\\nwhether the Fact they complain of be, or be not not a Breach of\\nany Part of the Articles hereunto annex d, that so the said Per-\\nson, or Agent may attend if he shall have any thing to offer, in\\nDefence of the Matter complain d of, And if upon the Question,\\nthe Attorney and Solicitor General shall joyn in Opinion and\\ngive it under their Hands, that the Cause of Complaint does\\nplainly appear in their Judgements to be a Breach of the Articles\\nsubscribed to, and such Person, as above described, or some Agent\\nacting for Him, shall not forthwith make due satisfaction, such\\nForbearance to do Justice in the Case, shall after Thirty Days\\nnext following the date of the said written Opinion, become an\\nabsolute Forfeiture of the Grant, and from thenceforth all Lands,\\nPrerogatives, Priviledges, Powers, and Benefits, whatsoever held,\\nclaim d, or enjoy d by virtue of the said Grant, shall be taken\\nPossession of for the sole future Use of the Body of Purchasers,\\nand shall be cany d on to their general Advantage, and according\\nto their Orders, and Direction, by any Person, or Persons whom\\nthey shall chuse by a Majority of their Voices, and send over to\\nthat Purpose And that no possible Let, or Impediment, on my", "height": "3709", "width": "2053", "jp2-path": "discourseconcern00mont_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "16\\nPart, or the Part of my Heirs, or Assigns, may in any sort in-\\ncommode, or prevent the most strict and immediate Performance\\nof this Covenant, I the said Sir Robert do hereby renounce for\\nmyself, and all claiming from me, all Pleas, Prerogati\\\\ es, Pri-\\nviledges and Pretences whatsoever, which I, or they, may by the\\nsaid Grant, or by any Form, Custom, or Mode of Proceedmg at\\nLaw be possess d of, or entitled to And I do consent and de-\\nclare, that when the written Opinion abovemention d of the\\nAttorneij, and Solicitor General in London, shall be produc d\\nto tiie Lords Proprietors of Carolina, and sei.t o^er to their De-\\nputies at Charles Town, and be eiiter d in t ;eir Jour al, It sh.all\\nstand as a determinate Judgment recorded against lae, or them,\\nafter whicJi no Appeal shall be lawful, and possession srall be\\ngiven immediately, that is to say, no otlier Process shall be need-\\nful than twenty Days Notice fro n the Gover our, and Council at\\nChades-Town abovemention d: From which Time for ever, if\\nfull Satisfaction be not made within tlie said twenty Days, as well\\nin the jMatter complain d of, as by Payment of all Costs, and\\nDamages sustained by the Complainants, ti]e Purcv^asers sliall in\\nRiglit of themselves, and by Virtue of these Picserts, possess,\\noccupy, and enjoy all Manner of Authorities, Territories, and\\nAdvantages of what kind Soever, arising from the Grant above-\\nsaid, and I the said Sir Robert MotmtgoiHri;, my Heirs, and As-\\nsigns sliall effectually stand excluded, bodi in Law, and in Equity,\\nto all Intents and Purposes, as if the said Grant had never been\\nmade. In Witness wlsereof, I have hereunto set my Hand and\\nseal this Fifteenth Day of July, in the T ird Year of tise Reign\\nof our Sovereign Lord George, by the Grace of God, of Great\\nBritain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, fc.\\nAnnoq Domini, 1717.\\nJR. Mountgomry.\\nArt. I. The first fifty thousand Acres, which sliall be run\\nout, settled, or planted, shall be always kept, as a distinct Divi-\\nsion, separate from the rest of the Margravate, and shall all be\\nclearVl, and iinprov d before any ot!.er Setdement is made, or\\nsuffer d in any Part of the Margravate, and a Riglit will be sold\\nby Virtue of the proposed Subscription, to all tiie Profits arising\\nfrom twenty five Thousand of those Acres, when the fifty Thou-\\nsand shall be clear d and in the mean time to half tlie yearly\\nAmount of the whole Profit which shall be u^ade by the Colony,\\nwhich Sale will be made in Acres, (more or less at the Discretion\\nof the Buyer, only nothing less tlian five Acres) at the Rate of\\nforty Shillings per Acre And tho the whole shou d not be pur-\\nchased, yet tie Books shall, notwithstanding, be shut up forthwith,\\nthat so no Time may be lost, and tlie then Nsimber of Purch.asers,\\nbe they never so few, shall compose the Body, and enjoy their", "height": "3709", "width": "2053", "jp2-path": "discourseconcern00mont_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "17\\nProportional Benefits, as fully as if the whole had been cotn-\\npleated.\\nArt. II. Tlie Land thus bought, is not to be cultivated at\\nthe Charge of the Buyer but the yearly Profits of it shall for\\never be brought Home to the Purchasers, their Heirs or Assigns,\\nin the Ships of the Margravate, and paid them in regular Divi-\\ndends.\\nArt III. The Purchase Money, that is to say, the forty\\nShiUingsper Acre abovementiou d, shall be paid one half down,\\nand the other half, not till the first Return of the Shipping, and\\nafter a Dividend of Profit made among the Purchasers, by Sale of\\nsuch Goods or Products as the said Ships bring over v\u00c2\u00bbith tiiem.\\nArt. IV. This first Return, and the whole yearly Produce\\nfor ever, of the first settled fifty Tliousand Acres, or so much\\nthereof, as shall at any time be clear d, and cultivated, si .ah al-\\nways come consign d to the Purchasers Factors, for the Time\\nbeing, or their Agents, or to Persons of their Appointment or\\nApprobation, and shall be sold by tlicm, or by Brokers of their\\nchusing, which Brokers shall account with them the said Factors\\nor their Agents, for the Purchasers Half tlie Profits, and with the\\nAgents of Sir Robert Mouiitgomry, or his Assigns, for the other\\nHalf. Provided always that a Preference be given to any Buyer\\nnam d by the said Sir Robert, or his Assigns, or his or their\\nAgents, on Condition however that such Buyer shall give a better\\nPrice than lias before been ofler d.\\nArt. V. That on the Death, or Surrender of the Factors,\\nor upon Dislike of their Management, it is always to be under-\\nstood that a Majority of the Purchasers shall have Power to\\nchuse new ones in their Places.\\nArt. VI. That on closing the Book of Subscription, due\\nNotice shall be given, and the Purchasers shall meet, and chuse\\nby r\\\\Iajority of Voices, (every twenty Acres entidingtoa Vote)\\nsuch Person or Persons as they think best qualified to act, as\\ntheir Factors, in the Trust abovementiou d, and such Factor, or\\nFactors, shall in Consideration of tlieir Trouble, he allow d over\\nand above their necessary Charges in the Management, such\\nGratuity as tlie Purchasers think reasonable out of tiie respective\\nDividends, which they from Time to Time, shall pay to the said\\nPurchasers.\\nArt. VII. On Payment of the first Half the Purchase Mo-\\nney, the Purchasers shall severally receive an Instrument inFonn\\nfollowing.\\nThis witnesseth, that A. B. did on this Day of\\n1717. Subscribe the Sum of Pounds, towards Establish-\\nment of a new Colony, in the Margravate of Azilia in Carolina,\\nand paid down one half of the said Sum: in Consideration where-", "height": "3709", "width": "2053", "jp2-path": "discourseconcern00mont_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "18\\nof, and of the remaining Half to be paid, as by the Articles\\nprovided, the said A. B. is for himself, his Heirs, or Assigns\\nadmitted as Proprietor of Acres of Land in the said Mar-\\ngravate. The whole Rents, Products, Profits, and Advantages of\\nwhich Acres are absolutely vested in the said A. B. his\\nHeirs, or Assigns for ever, as they shall arise, and accrue yearly\\nby virtue of a General Management, as by the Articles provided,\\nat the Cost of Sir Robert Mountgomry or his Assigns, without\\nCharge, or Trouble to the said Proprietor under tlie Penalties\\nGxpress d and covenanted in a Deed to that End executed and\\nenroird in the High Court of Chancery, for perpetual Proof of\\nthe Security therein provided. In Witness whereof, I the above-\\nmention d Sir Robert Mountgomry^ have hereunto set my Hand,\\nthe Day and Year first above-written.\\nJR. Mountgomry^\\nArt. Vni. And for Encouragement of those, who shall\\nconsiderably Interest themselves in this Affair. Whoever shall\\nSubscribe the Sum of Five Hundred Pounds, for Purchase of\\ntwo hundred and fifty Acres, as abovemention d, shall, over and\\nabove his yearly Profits from the said two Hundred and Fifty\\nAcres, be entitled to one of the Estates of a Mile Square, or 640\\nAcres, in the first District, which shall be settled, as in the Cut\\ndescrib d. And shall for himself, his Heirs, and Assigns for ever^\\nbe put in Possession of the said Estate of 640 Acres, together\\nwith a House built on it, and the Ground ready clear d to his\\nHand, without any Chai ge to him, or his Assigns, as soon as such\\nfirst District shall be measur d out, and settled; The said Estate\\nto be cultivated at his Pleasure and for his Profit, by Himself, or\\nhis Agents, on Condition only, that if he shall not hiniself think\\nfit to go over, and inhabit it, the Person he sends over in his\\nStead, shall be no ordinary Overseer, but a Gentleman well\\nqualified, of a liberal E-ducation, v/ho is married, and carries\\nwith him a genteel well bred Family.\\nArt. IX. Over and above the Regard, which may naturally\\nbe expected to the Recommendation of Purchasers, in Disposal\\nof Offices, and furnishing the various Supplies from Time to Time\\nneedful, it will be fit that some particular Encouragement be\\ngiven to such, as shall be early Promoters of the Undertaking;\\nbecause in this, as in all great Affairs, Expedition is the main\\nLife of Business, and the necessary Preparations will require so\\nmuch Time, that if the Subscription is suddenly com])leated, it\\nwill turn to tlie extraordinary Benefit of the Design, and all con-\\ncern d in it; It is therefore hereby made an Article, that the first\\nhundred Subscribers (to be known by the Numbers on their In-\\nstruments) whether tliey Subscribe more, or less, shall have, and\\nbe firmly entitled in all Dividends, to an additional Share of Profit;", "height": "3709", "width": "2053", "jp2-path": "discourseconcern00mont_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "idler the Rale of one Acre over and above every ten Acres the)\\nbuy, and so for more or less hi Propoition; to be paid them out\\nof the Undertaker s Part of every Dividend by then- own Factors\\nor Agents: As for Instance, a Purchaser of 100 Acres, if his\\nTicicet of Purchase bears any Number from 1 to J 00, shall not,\\nat the Dividends, receive in Pro|)ortion to the 100 Acres he\\nbought, but as if they were 110 Acres: by Virtue of tlie 10\\nAcres additionally annex d to his Quota by Virtue of this Article.\\nAnd so it shall be understood of any difierent Quantity pur-\\nchas d, from five Acres upwards.\\nA more partmdar Explanation of the Benefits of this\\nFroposaL\\nT lS impossible to give a firmer Title, than is hereby made\\nboth to the Lands, and their Profits, since the whole Coun-\\ntry, with all its Improvements, in all Times to come, is engag d\\nas a Mortgage, and will be forfeited into the Purchaser s Hands\\non Non-performance of the Covenants, and as to the Rate of the\\nPurchase, tis the cheapest that ever was heard of: For it must\\nbe observ d, that the Forty Shillings ^c/ Acre is not a Consider-\\nation for the Land only, to be cultivated afterwards at the Charge\\nof the Buyer, but on the contrary, it is the first, and last Ex-\\npence, not only of the Land, but its perpetual Profit; so that for\\nwhat IS once laid out, a Man has, every Year, brought Home to\\nhis Door, by other People s Care and Charge, and without the\\nleast Trouble to Himself, but That of receiving the Money, the\\nProduce and Profit of so many Acres of the finest Land in the\\nWorld, as he thus pays Forty Shillings a piece for; and this is to\\ncontinue, not only during his own Life, but to Descend for ever\\nto his Heirs, or those, to whom he shall assign his Interest. And,\\nthat the Benefits of this Proposal may as well reach those who\\nare willing to spare but a little, as those who shall incline to\\nSubscribe large Sums, we have therefore fix tl the lowest Quan-\\ntity at five Acres By which Means People who cannot, or who\\ncare not to venture much, may become concern d lor only five\\nPound down, and five Pound more after the first Dividend of\\nProfit, at Return of the Shipping; and this will we hope be of\\nGeneral Advantage, since the Benefit being made diffusive, will\\nreach Numbers who had else been shut out And with that View\\nwe have permitted it against the Opinions of a few: Since a Man\\nwho is able to spare but 10 or 20/. and does afterwards sell his\\nInterest for two or three hundred, will much more feel the Benefit\\nthan one, who being able to subscribe larger Sums, makes a Pro-\\nfit in Equal Proportion.", "height": "3709", "width": "2053", "jp2-path": "discourseconcern00mont_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "20\\nAnd here, tjio* \\\\vc utterly disapprove all swelling, and over-\\nrated Computations, it will be some satisfaction to give as rational\\na Guess, as Tilings to come admit of, after vrhat proportion Pur-\\nchasers may calculate their Profit, by the most modest Expecta-\\ntion for tho tls impossible exactly to state these Accounts, before\\nthey arc put to the Trial, yet such Computations as are fairly,\\nand impartially Drawn, are at least so far Useful, as to give some\\nIdea to the Reader, of what he may otlierwise perhaps be utterly\\nignorant in the very Nature and Meaning of.\\nIt will be allow d witliout Argument, that Three working Men\\nmay bo carried over, and maintain d one whole Year round, for\\nevery Hundied Pound in the Stock; And so a purchaser, for\\nevery Hundred Pounds, he subscribes, will the first Year be\\nentitled to Half what is gain d by Tliree Men s constant Labour\\nthe whole Yeali- about. The other Half remaining to the Un-\\ndertakers, to supply Encrease of People, and the necessary\\nCharges of their Maintenance, and Government.\\nThe Practice of our Colonies all over America, has made it\\nundeniable, that the Labour of a Man, for one Year, no otherway\\nemploy d, will clear, at least, four Acres; It must be observ d,\\nthat we do not suppose him to cultivate the four Acres, but only\\nto cut, and bum down the Trees, which grow there; By this\\nAccount such a Purchaser s first Year s Claim will be the Profit\\nof Six Acres (Half Three Mens Labour for That Year) And\\nhis Second Year advancing in Proportion, after Allowance for all\\nKinds of Hazard, there arises a great, and uncommon Advantage.\\nFor not to urge that the Designs, we sliall employ our Men in,\\nare such, as may be fairly expected to produce far greater Profit,\\nthan the overstock d and beaten Practices, in Use at Present, we\\nwill take as our Example, the most common, known Product of\\nSouth Carolina Herself, and That is Rice This is, at least, one\\nCrop with another worth Six Pounds per Acre we will state it,\\nhowever, but at four Pounds, and out of that allow Deduction\\nof one Pound for Freight Home, and Duty so the Puichaser\\nreceives but Three Pounds neat from each Acre.\\nThus, all the Land clear d, a Man, whose Purchase Money\\nwas a Hundred Pounds, for fifty Acres, must receive a Hundred,\\nand fifty Pound per Ammm for ever, as the Profit of it but we\\nare not desirous of laying more weight than tlie Reader, on the\\nExactness of such Calculations; A Thousand Accidents, not\\neasily foreseen, will still vary these Events, sometimes for the\\nbetter, sometimes for the Worse we leave People s Expectation\\nto be determin d by their Reason, tho even Men of Diffidence\\nwill we think be asham d to disallow a Computation so low, as\\nThree Pounds per Acre, from such Land in such a Climate.\\nBut it may be objected that we compute on a Supposition of", "height": "3709", "width": "2053", "jp2-path": "discourseconcern00mont_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "21\\nall the Land clcar d, and iniprov d by Cultivation, A\\\\hoi-eas it\\nmay be some Years before the Woods, which over-run it, are\\nFell d, and the Earth fit for Sowing; Tis true, to clear all the\\nLand will require some Time, But while That is doing we make\\nall our Potash beforementionVl, of the waste Wood cut down, to\\nclear the Land, and the Profit from an Acre that way, will be so\\nmuch greater, tlian from any yearly Crop, that Purchasers may\\nreasonably expect as large gain the very first Year, from a few\\nAcres only, as afterwards from all their Land, cleared and culti-\\nvated.\\nA word or two, to explahi this Assertion, which may look like\\na Mystery, and we shall draw to a Conclusion.\\nWhen Workmen have nothing to do, but fell Great Trees cross\\none another, and as soon as dry, set Fire to them, that they may\\nbe burnt to Ashes, tis demonstrable beyond all Dispute, that\\nThree Men so employ d, in Twelve Months constant Work, must\\ncut down more Wood than can grow on Twelve Acres.\\nIf therefore we state it but at twelve Acres, it is a Rate of\\ncomputing which can admit of no reasonable Contradiction And\\nto shew how much Potash this will yield, it is plain from Expe-\\nrience and any Reader who doubts, may examine it at his Pleasure\\nfor the Charge of a Faggot, That the Weight of any good Wood\\nAshes amounts to aljout a Sixteenth of the Wood, they are burnt\\nfrom; and the Weight of the Potash, which will be produc d\\nfrom those Ashes, is from a Sixth, to an Eighth of the Weight\\nof the Ashes; But allowing at large, for loss, waste, and acci-\\ndents, call the Sixteenth a Twe:ntieth, aiX\\\\^l\\\\\\\\e Sixth a Tenth only.\\nFor Quantity of Wood, say there grows on an Acre, so\\ncover d with huge Tmiber Trees, but four Hundred Tun; we\\nhave often much more (Bark, Timber, and Brushwood) on an\\nAcre in England; It is therefore an unexceptionable Computation\\nfor America, where the date of the Woods, instead of Years,\\nmust be reckoned by Ages. Then the Wood of an Acre yields\\ntwo Tun of Potash, and the whole Year s Labour of Thrae Men\\nemploy d in cutting down, and burning on Twelve Acres, and\\nboiling and managing the Ashes, will produce 24 Tun of Potash,\\nwhich being a Commodity of Universal Consumption, cannot\\neasily over stock Markets, at least not from far greater Quantities\\nof Wood Land, than we ai-e here talking of.\\nThe general Price of such Potash, being the Richest, and\\nBest, is from Forty to Sixty Pounds Sterling per Tun, but we\\nwill reduce it to Twenty, for Arguments Sake, tho such a Fall is\\nimprobable for such a Commodity, (Some of our own English\\nAshes, which have not a Ath Part good Potash, yielding that\\nPrice or more) The 24 Tun will then sell for Four Hundred and\\nEighty Pounds If out of this Sum we allow for payment of", "height": "3709", "width": "2053", "jp2-path": "discourseconcern00mont_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "2.5^\\nFreight, and Custom House Duties, ^c. at the most extravagant\\nReckoning, we may deduct on that Score One Hundred and\\nEighty pounds, and then out of the remaining Three Hundred,\\nOne Hundred and fifty Pounds will be due to tlie Purciiaser\\nin Ens;land, as the tirst Year s clear Profit of his Hundred Pound\\nVenture, and That Profit will be every Year growing greater,\\nand greater.\\nWe repeat here once again, that we wou d not impose the\\npunctual Exactness of such Calculations, as a Matter of Infalli-\\nbility The utmost Men can do in these Cases, is lairly to lay\\ndown Probabilities, and Tliat we have done undeniably, notwith-\\nstanding the Giant-like size of the Benefit and we shou d perhaps\\nfar more Suprize, if we varied the Subject, and computed on\\nsome other of our Intentions: A man wou d make but a very\\nindifferent Use of his Caution, who shou d neglect an uncommon\\nAdvantage, without some better Reason against it, than that tlie\\nProspect of Profit was too Great to he credited; But be that as\\nit will. Here is Room enough for Profit, let Men reduce it, as they\\nplease, nor indeed is Profit, how Great soever, the only Motive to\\nMen of Noble IMinds There is in an Attempt of this Nature,\\nsomething more to recommend it, to all those, who take a Plea-\\nsure in things publick Spirited, and Useful to Posterity.\\nIf then what we have said is not sufficient Encouragement,\\nwhatever we can say, will be said to no Purpose, so we only shall\\nadd our most earnest Entreaty, that every Reader would narrowly\\nscan both the Facts, and the Reasonings here ofFer d, and let it be\\ndone with the sharpest Attention, and Severity of his Judgment;\\nfor we are justly convinc d, that They, who examine them most,\\nwill most firmly believe them.\\nPOSTSCRIPT.\\nTHO all, that I think can possibly be expected by a reasonable\\nReader, has been said in the short Tract foregoing, I find my\\nself advis d to add a Word, or two by way of Postscript, for\\nSatisfaction of some, who may be apt to object, that tho the\\nLands, which are bought, will be more than an Equivalent for\\nthe Money Subcrib d, when those Lands shall be settled, and\\nplanted, yet as they are of no such Value in their present Con-\\ndition, and as the Subscribers should have all possible Security,\\nthat the Settlement shall really be made as proposed, they may\\ntherefore expect, that over and above the Assignment of the\\nLands, the Money they subscribe, shou d, instead of being paid\\ninto my Hands, be deposited in those of Trustees, for the Uses\\nintended.", "height": "3709", "width": "2053", "jp2-path": "discourseconcern00mont_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "3\\nTho I cannot but hope, that such kind of Suspicions will\\ntaever disturb any Person, to whom I am known, yet 1 thoufi;ht\\nbut reasonable to SUitc the Objection, and Answer it, for th\\nSakes of such Readers, who, being equally Strangers to my Per\\nSon, and Character, may justly enough, entertain the Distrusts,\\nwhich are conunon, and allowable in Matters of Money, and\\nBargainings.\\nIt will be granted, that it signifies little into whose Hands the\\nMoney is paid, if it is but apply d to the Purpose intended; and\\nas I neither expect, nor Desire the Subscription of any, but such,\\nwho, by weighing the Design, are iully con\\\\anc d, that it is ivell\\nfounded, and profitable, so it follows, as a necessary Consequence,\\nthat a// s?icA must think their Money best placed in his Hands,\\nwhose Profit, Honour, and Success must depend upon That of\\nthe Undertaking, and who may therefore be naturally suppos d\\nmore careful, and dilligent than others wou d be, in the Aj)plica-\\ntion of the IMoney, because always most interested, in the Effect\\noj that Application.\\nThis Reason is so good, that it might alone be sufficient, if\\nthere was not another as considerable, which arises from the fol-\\nlowing Reflection.\\nWhere Trustees are to act in Matters of Care, Form, or\\nEquity, it must be confess d, they are not only useful, but neces-\\nsary; But when they are tmsted, as in our Case they would be,\\nwith a Deposite of Money, and a Power to see it apply d to a\\nPurpose, in which they are no otherwise concern d, than as Ad-\\nventurers among others, (to say nothing of the Impossibility to\\nchuse such, as would be equally agreeable to all) the Temptations\\nare many, and but too well known, which may make it their In-\\nterest to find means of Cavil under plausible Pretences for delay-\\ning the Business, and Detainment of the Money, as long as the\\nManagers shall see it convenient for their private Advantages.\\nA wise Man will therefore very easily discern, and approve of\\nOiy Reasons for not dividing the Power of the Money, from the\\nPower of the Management, since on this only Rock might be\\nsplit a more promising Adventure, than was ever undertaken.\\nIf I did not believe, that every Body s Experience can furnish\\nblm with Instances enough, in the daily Destructions of well laid\\nDesigns, through the idle Disputes, and Disagreements of those,\\nwho are carrying them on, it were easy to illustrate the Fact by\\na thousand Examples.\\nBut, as none, I presume, will deny a known Truth, I will In-\\nstance but One, which is the fitter for my Purpose, because it is\\ntaken, not only from a Parallel Case, but was acted in the ver\\\\\\nnext Country to that, which is the Scene of our Settlement.\\nThe first Attempts, which were made for the settling an En-", "height": "3709", "width": "2053", "jp2-path": "discourseconcern00mont_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "24\\nij^lish Plantation in Virginia, were carried on by the privat\\nSubscriptions of Gentlemen and others, who thought it their\\nInterest by Way of Sccmity, to entrust the Disposal of their\\nMoney, to certain Men of the best Publick Credit among them,\\nwho were chosen Trustees, and transacted all Matters at Home\\nin the Name of the Body. Mean while, the Command of their\\nColonies was committed to such Great, and Brave Men, as Sir\\nMealier Raleigh and others, who Avent over, and settled the\\nCountry, with all the Appearance of a promising good Fortune;\\nbut just in the Crisis, when their Houses were Built, Lands\\nprepared, and nothing was wanting, but the expected Arrival of\\nShips with the necessary Supplies of Ammunition, and Provision,\\nthey were all Starved to Death, or cut off by the Indians with a\\nshocking Barbarity. For the Gentlemen in England, wliile they\\nshou d have laid out the Money subscribed, and sent over the\\nSupplies abov^emention d, were quarreling with one another,\\nwho should make most Advantage, by furnishing such Goods, as\\nwhere wanted, or helping others to do it: In which, and the like\\nkind of Follies, they wasted sometimes two, three, or more Years,\\ntill their poor starving Colonies fell a Sacrifice to their Inhuman-\\nity and Avarice.\\nNor was this Game play d but once, and then mended; on the\\nContrary, from the Reign of Queen Elizabeth, to that of King\\nCharles the First, they repeated the Extravagance in numberless\\nTrials, and lost six, or seven different Colonies, not to mention\\nthe Money, they had so warily ventur d, into the Bargain, by no\\nother Error, or Miscarriage, than that the Disposal of their Stock\\ndid not lie in the same Hands, which had the Management of their\\nAuthority and this was so visible a Truth, that King Charles\\nabovemention d, as a Punishment of their Indiscretion, depriv d\\nthem of then- Charter; and ever after that, the Purse, and the\\nPower being join d, as they ought, Virginia throve apace, till it\\ngrew the most flourisliing, and mighty of all our Plantations in\\nAmerica.\\nThis remarkable Instance ought to serve, as a Warning to all.\\nwho embark in these noble Designs, not to run into Losses by\\nmistaken Endeavours, and ill-guided Cautions to avoid them;\\nThe Reader may apply the Advice, as he pleases, But we\\nwould have none concern d with us, whose establish d Opinion\\nof the Nature of this Undertaking does not set him above all\\nmean, and unnecessary Jealousies. R Mountgomry.\\nThe Subscription Book will be open d at the Carolina Coffee-\\nHouse in Birchin-Lane near the Royal-Etchange, on Thurs-\\nday the First Day of August next, and Attendance will be\\ngiven frow 9 to 12, and from 3 to 6 Daily.\\nFINIS.\\nLB W", "height": "3709", "width": "2053", "jp2-path": "discourseconcern00mont_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3709", "width": "2053", "jp2-path": "discourseconcern00mont_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3709", "width": "2053", "jp2-path": "discourseconcern00mont_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3709", "width": "2053", "jp2-path": "discourseconcern00mont_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3709", "width": "2053", "jp2-path": "discourseconcern00mont_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3709", "width": "2053", "jp2-path": "discourseconcern00mont_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3709", "width": "2053", "jp2-path": "discourseconcern00mont_0034.jp2"}}