To the Right Honourable ANTHONY Lord ASHLEY, Baron Ashley of Wimborn St. Giles, Chancellor of his Majesties Exchequer, Ʋnder-Treasurer of England, One of the Lords Commissioners of his Ma∣jesties Treasury, one of the Lords of his most Honourable Privie Council, and one of the Lords Proprie∣tors of CAROLINA.

FRom this discourse it is clear that the long looked-for discovery of the Indian Sea does nearly approach; and Carolina, out of her happy experience of your Lord∣ships success in great undertakings, presumes that the accomplishment of this glorious Designe is reserved for her. In order to which, the Apalataean Mountains (though like the prodigious Wall that divides Chi∣na Page  [unnumbered]and Tartary, they deny Virginia passage into the West Continent) stoop to your Lordships Dominions, and lay open a Pro∣spect into unlimited Empires; Empires that will hereafter be ambitious of subjection to that noble Government which by your Lordships deep wisdom and providence first projected, is now established in Caroli∣na; for it will appear that she flourishes more by the influence of that, than the ad∣vantages she derives from her Climate and Soyl, which yet do render her the Beauty and Envy of North-America. That all her glories should be seen in this Draught, is not reasonably to be expected, since she sate to my Author but once, and then too with a side-face; and therefore I must own it was never by him designed for the Press, but published by me, out of no other ambition than that of manifesting to the world, that I am,