The great pine woods furnished lumber that was sent to Europe by the boatload. From the sap of the pine trees the colonists also learned to make turpentine and rosin. By heating or distilling the wood itself they produced tar. To this day one of the most striking sights in these states are the great sawmills and the stills, where negroes are making turpentine much as it was made a century and a half ago. When Georgia was settled Oglethorpe did not permit slaves to be brought in, and the colonists had to do all their own work. But later there were as many slaves in Georgia as in the Carolinas or Virginia. SUGGESTIONS INTENDED TO HELP THE PUPIL =The Leading Facts.= _1._ Peter Stuyvesant was sent out by the Dutch West India Company as Governor of New York. _2._ He ruled the colony in his own way and gave the people very little power. _3._ The council surrendered the colony to the English against the will of Stuyvesant. _4._ New Netherland became the colony of New York. _5._ The Dutch kept up the customs of their native country. _6._ William Penn, son of a great English naval officer, became a Quaker while a student at Oxford. _7._ He founded a colony in America on a tract of land given him in payment of the king's debt to his father. _8._ Penn gave the colonists the right to choose their own rulers and to make their own laws. _9._ He gave a free constitution and made friends with the Indians. _10._ He founded the city of Philadelphia, which grew faster than the other colonial towns. _11._ The Quakers were gentle and friendly to everybody. _12._ All religions were welcomed in the colony. _13._ When a friend of Oglethorpe's died in a debtors' prison, Oglethorpe determined to do something for the unfortunates shut up in jail for debt. _14._ He obtained a charter from the king for some land in Georgia. _15._ In his selection of settlers no lazy men were allowed. _16._ The town was built near the mouth of the Savannah River. _17._ The Savannah colony flourished, and many other settlers came to Georgia. _18._ Oglethorpe built Frederica to keep back the Spaniards. _19._ The colonies south of Virginia thrived on the production of rice, indigo, lumber, tar, and turpentine.