Their Wheat though Set six Foot deep, grows very speedily: Kidney-Beans being planted amongst it, they will wind about the Stalks thereof. [Sidenote: Pease.] Gray Pease grow here so fast, that they gather them twice a year. In one Field Physical Herbs and _Indigo_ grow wild in great abundance; and Barley springs above a Mans heighth. Moreover, there are divers sorts of sweet-smelling Flowers. [Sidenote: Soyl of the Mountains.] The Hills are most of a fat and clayie Soil, fit to make Pots, Tobacco-pipes, or any other sort of Earthen Ware. [Sidenote: Gold and Silver-Mines.] In some places also is store of Mountain Crystal, and that sort of Mineral which we call _Muscovia Glass_: Others afford Marble, Serpentine Stone, and other sorts of hard Stone. And though the Natives did not think it worth their while, or were not in a capacity to dig for Minerals themselves, yet it remains without contradiction, that the Mountains inclose both Gold and Silver. When Captain _William Clieff_, _Anno 1645._ us’d the _Indian_ Interpreter _Agheroense_ (to decide the Differences which arose between the _West-India Company_ and the wild People call’d _Makwaes_,) he observ’d him to paint his Face with a yellow glittering colour, which he judg’d to be of some rich Mineral: whereupon buying some of the said _Agheroense_, he put it into a Crusible, and gain’d two small pieces of Gold out of the same, valu’d at six Shillings; but keeping it private, and purchasing a great quantity of the said Mineral from _Agheroense_ (who had show’d him the Mountain which produced the same) extracted good store of Gold out of it; which possessing _Clieff_ with a belief of having found out a business of great consequence, he sent _Arent Corsen_ of _New-haven_ with the fore-mention’d Mineral to _Holland_; but the Ship being never heard of afterwards, and the Princess Pink, in which Captain _Clieff_ was himself, with store of the new-found Mineral, being cast away, the Business came to nothing. [Sidenote: Paint after a strange manner.] The Inhabitants, though divided into several Nations, yet agree in many things, as in painting their Bodies, Shields, Clubs, and other Utensils in their Houses. The Colours wherewith they paint themselves they press out of Plants, or make them of certain Stones grownd into very fine Powder. The chiefest Plant is not unlike the Myrtle, onely it hath more Boughs, and bears red Berries; the Juice of which being dry’d in the Sun, is afterwards preserv’d in little Bags. The Natives temper their Colours with Water, and paint their Bodies with the same: It is as good a Purple as can be found. They also draw Ships, Trees, and Beasts after a very rough manner: In stead of Feathers they wear pleited Hair, which being colour’d red, hath an excellent gloss, which never fades though it Rain on the same. [Sidenote: Horses.]