Hopps, &c. English Fruit takes kindly, and produceth suddainly and plenti∣fully:
The Woods are furnished with Store of Wild Fowl, as Turkeys, Phea∣sants,
Heath-Cocks, Patridges, Pidgeons, &c. The Earth well Watered with
Springs and Rivers, and the Rivers stored with Fish, as Sturgion, Sheepsheads,
Drums, Cat-fish, Shads, Ecles, and abundance more: With Fowl, as Swans, Gray and
White Geese, Duck, Mallard, &c. The Corn of the Country used by the In∣dians,
produceth four hundred sold, is Good and Hearty, both in Milk, and
made into Bread; the price two Shillings six pence the Bushel: There is also
good English Corn, as Wheat, Barly, Rye, and Oates; Wheat under four Shil∣lings
the Bushel, Barly and Rye, under three Shillings the Bushel, Oates about
two Shillings the Bushel: There are also very good Pease, and Beans of seve∣ral
sorts. The Beef is good, but Pork is very Sweet: The Beef at three pence,
the Pork at two pence half-penny the pound; Batter at six pence a pound,
Peaches to Eat, or make Drink of, at eight pence the Bushel; a Cow and Calf
about the Spring of the Year, at five pounds, a pair of Oxen at ten pounds,
a good Breeding Sow at thirty Shillings, a Young good Breeding Mare, at eight
pounds. But it is to be Noted, that these foregoing prises and sums, are to
be paid with one half of the Value in English Goods, at the Rates they are bought
at in England; for example, four pounds English paies for the Breeding Mare,
that is Rated at eight pounds, the like with the rest.
The Country also abounds with several sorts of Wild Creatures, as Elkes,
Deer, Beavers, Racoons, Mincks, Martins, Wild Catts, Otters, &c. some of
which are good Food, and Cheap, as a Fat Buck at two Shillings, English
Goods, others of them considerable for their Furs: The way of Traffique, is
to send to the Southren Plantations, Corn, Beef, Pork, Fish, Sider, and Pipe∣staves;
the Skins and Furs for England. The Conveniency that belongs to the
Province in point of Navigation, is two fold; the one through Chesapeak Bay,
and the other Delaware Bay, by which Ships of great Burthen may come and
Trade to the said Province.