(seq. 331)

East Florida

chiefly by native Americans, and Emigrants from Nothern colonies,
and consisted in Rice, Rye, Indian Corn, Potatoes, Pease, Lantils Lucern,
Turpentine, Tar and Pitch; in all manner of European Garden Plants,
and Pot herbs, in Cypress, Cedar and Pine Boards, as well as Timber; in
burning of Lime and in quarrying of Stones.
9. That all Europeans (which incline to cultivate this Province) may
process, like unto the Americans, with Boldness, and reasonably account
before hand for their Success, not meeting with those Disappointments obvious
hitherto, for want of Experience or Information. The most ingenious of
them are advised to enquire into the Nature of their own Climate, in which
they are born, and educated; the Power of the Sun by Inflection and Reflect=
=ion, their Nourishment, and Medicines accustomed to; they are to accquire
Information of the Climate, Power of the Sun, Mode of living, and Culture of
the Climate they intend to move to; They are to collect such Plants and Seeds,
as they are sure will be worth transplanting, either for Refreshment of Life,
Preservation or Recovery of Health, or for Markey and Profit; they are (if able)
to lay in a good Stock of Furnitures, Garments, Provisions and Medicines, such
as they have been used to, and which they have no Probability to meet with in
a New Province; thereby to do Justice to their Constitution, private Interest,
and to the general Good of Society.
10. As America is the General Object of those, who out of Necessity
or Inclination of making Experiments, become Emigrants or Adventurers;
and East Florida, in a special manner is here the Object treated upon; in
which Province I have resided and surveyed from 1765 to 1771, to its
Southermost Extent, both by Land and Sea; after endeavouring to colelct all
possible Experince from Culture, Surveys and Travels in Georgia & South
Carolina, from 1751 to 1765, I think ti therefore my Duty to pour out for
His Majesty's INterest, and the Good of the Public, all my Experienec
gathered by Observations and Experiments during twenty years time.
I will endeavour in the most concise Style and Sense, to deliver up my
Observations, which in a general View will be servicable for all parts of
America, but ina more particular ONe are meant for East Florida.
The general Opinion prevailing is, that Emigration of Man and Trans=
=plantation of Vegitable Plants best succeed in the same Climate. This
Opinion is so plausibly well grounded, that it cannot miss to receive a favo=
=rable Reception in Theory: But by Experience I know, that the Winds and
Effluries of Earth and Water cause such Alterations, that the Effects almost differ
in every degree of Longitude in the same Climate, and the bad Effects of these
Differences

it with lime water and elicivate it, or, to come off with less Trouble, drown the Caterpillars in Lime water,
then dry them in the Shade, and put them up for Use, convinced from experience, that all plants breed their
special Caterpillar, Bu or Worm, which contain the Wuintessence of the plant ready manugatured for Use,
of course the best Indigo must be in the Caterpiller of its Plant.