For If Euerie Housholde Haue One Or Two To Cracke Nuttes, Grinde
Shelles, Whet Copper, And Sometimes Other Stones For Hatchets, They Haue
Enough:
Neither vse they any digging, but onely for graues about three
foote deepe:
And therefore no maruaile that they know neither Quarries,
nor lime stones, which both may bee in places neerer than they wot of.
In the meane time vntill there bee discouerie of sufficient store in
some place or other couenient, the want of you which are and shalbe the
planters therein may be as well supplied by Bricke: for the making
whereof in diuers places of the countrey there is clay both excellent
good, and plentie; and also by lime made of Oister shels, and of others
burnt, after the maner as they vse in the Iles of Tenet and Shepy, and
also in diuers other places of England: Which kinde of lime is well
knowne to bee as good as any other. And of Oister shels there is plentie
enough: for besides diuers other particular places where are abundance,
there is one shallowe sounde along the coast, where for the space of
many miles together in length, and two or three miles in breadth, the
grounde is nothing els beeing but halfe a foote or a foote vnder water
for the most part.
This much can I say further more of stones, that about 120. miles from
our fort neere the water in the side of a hill was founde by a Gentleman
of our company, a great veine of hard ragge stones, which I thought good
to remember vnto you.
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