It is not poffible for me, without emotion, to contemplate, that we have been called upon to execute the most important trust that can be delegated by the King and British Parliament, during a period of awful and stupendous events, which still agitate the greater part of mankind, and which have threatened to involve all that is valuable in civil society in one promiscuous ruin. However remote we have been happily placed from the scene of these events, we have not been without their influence; but, by the bleffing of God, it has only been fufficient to prove, that this province, founded upon the rock of loyalty, demonstrates one common fpirit in the defence of their king and their country.

In the civil provifions for the establishment and maintenance of our conftitution, and the benefits flowing therefrom, we shall, I truft, always recollect with great fatisfaction, that we have been actuated and guided by a fair and upright defire to lay the foundations of private right and of public profperity.

I humbly believe that his Majefty, the father of his people, and the beneficent founder of this loyal province, will accept our endeavours to perpetuate these bleffings, which it is his wifh fhould attend his faithful fubjects and their remoteft pofterity.

Honourable

Honourable Gentlemen, and Gentlemen!

It is our immediate duty to recommend our public acts to our fellow-fubjects by the efficacy of our private example; and to contribute in this tract of the British empire, to form a nation, obedient to the laws, frugal, temperate, induftrious;-impressed with a stedfast love of justice, of honour, of public good; with unshaken probity and fortitude amongst men, with Chriftian piety and gratitude to God!

Confcious of the intention of well-doing, 'I fhall ever cherish, with reverence, and humble acknowledgement, the remembrance, that it is my fingular happiness to have borne to this province the powers, the privileges, the principles, and the practice of the British constitution; this perpetual monument of the good-will of the empire, the reward of tried affection and loyalty, can best fulfil the just end of all government, as the experience of ages hath proved, by communicating univerfally, protection and profperity, to those who make a rightful use of its advantages.

TO THE SECOND VOLUME.

A.

ADAMS, Mr. Prefident of the United States, character of,

124.

Agriculture, ftate of, in Shenectady, 50; Albany, 62; Marlbo-
rough, 109; in the diftrict of Maine, 156; in Rhode Island,
274; in the township of Lebanon, 309; near Newhaven, 321;
in Carolina, 411; Georgia, 460.

Ague, endemical in the district of Geneffee, 34, 36. ↑

Albany, county of, its population, 52.

-, city of, 55; its fettlement, when formed, ib.; fituation,
harbour, and trade, ib. ; its exports, 56; fhipping, ib.; price
of fhip-building, 58; population, 60; ftyle of building, ib. ;
revenues, ib.; bank, 61; churches, ib.; manufactories, 62;
Author's departure from, 88; negligence of its merchants, 303.
Allowamfet Pond, account of the iron ore at, 260; manner of
procuring it, ib. ; price of labour at, 261.

Alma, Captain, at Ducktrap Creek, account of the eftate of, 164;
his faw-mill, 169.

Amareskoghin Creek, 209; its fhip-building, ib.

Ambrofe, Saint, fituation of the Spanish Island of, 129; abounds
with feals, ib.; no anchorage, ib.

Anecdotes, the Author mistaken for a doctor, and its fuccess, 16;
of Mr. Mac Elroy, 102; of the Creek Indians, 468.

Apalachicola River, 471.

B.

Baron, Dr. account of his plantation, 435; its extent and coft of
purchase, 436.

Barrington, a small fea-port, 288; its houfes, ib.; price of land, ib.
Bath, a port of entry in the county of Lincoln, 208; its exports, ib,

Belfast, account of the township of, 170; church, ib.

Bellytown, account of, 105.

Berkshire, population of the county of, 102.

Berwick, account of the diftrict of, 221; houfes in the town of, ib.

VOL. II.

2

Beverley,

Beverley, fituation of the village of, 238; its fifhery, ib.

Biddeford, account of the town of, 220; its trade, ib.; ex-
ports, ib.

Bingham, inn of 'Squire, 15; the family all ill of the ague, ib. ;
extraordinary cure by the Author, 16; water here abomin

able, 19.

Bligh, Mr. poffeffor of very valuable lands in South Carolina,

408; account of his negroes, and quantity of rice he raises, ib.
Bofton, its environs, 111, 112; its fituation, 113; harbour, 114;
the neglect of fortifications, ib.; its houses, 123; manners of
its inhabitants, ib.; their enterprifing spirit and trade, 126;
tonnage of the port of, 246; exports, 247; imports, 248; du-
ties, ib.

Brefwit Ifland, 6; covered throughout with wood, ib.

Brigadiers Ifland, account of, 175; its inhabitants, ib; its fhore
famous for falmon-fishery, 178.

Bristol, county of, its population, 274; great abundance of iron
ore, ib.

Bristol, a small fea-port, 287; its trade, ib.

Broadbay, account of the town of, 199.

Brompton Fort, account of, 19.

Brown, Mofes, character of, 289.

Brown, John, brother to Mofes, the richest merchant in Provi<
dence, 296; account of his great concerns, ib.

Brunswick, account of the district of, 208.

Brunswick, defcription of the town of, 363; principal town in
the county of Middlesex, ib.; its population, 364; brisk traf-
fic with New York, ib.

Burr, eftate of Colonel, 359; his character, ib.

C.

Cabot, Mr. fenator of the United States, for Maffachusetts, 250.
Caimans, numerous in South Carolina, 452; in Georgia, 460;
account of this fpecies of crocodile, 452.

Caldwell, James, account of his extenfive mills and manufac
tories at Albany, 62, 63.

Cambridge, account of the Univerfity of, 122; its funds, ib.;
price of education and board, 123.

Camden River, 163; its navigation, ib.

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