H.—I take it, Sir, that our long cold winters discourage them. Before they can bring the land to such a state as to be able in summer to provide for their support in winter, what little substance they can bring with them is expended, and many of them have greatly suffered. The Southern colonies are more temperate. K.—What is the reason you raise no wheat in your Province? {3213} H.—In most places, especially near the sea, it blasts. K.—To what cause is that owing? H.—It has been observed that when the grain is so forward as to be out of the milk the beginning of July, it seldom blasts; and that about the 8th or 10th of that month the weather becomes exceeding hot, and what are called the honey dews of the night are fixed upon the grains by the scalding sun in a hot morning, and if the grain be then in the milk it shrivels up, and the straw becomes rusty and black. This is a pretty general opinion of the cause. K.—To what produce is your climate best adapted? H.—To grazing, Sir; your Majesty has not a finer Colony for grass in all your dominions: and nothing is more profitable in America that pasture, because labour is very dear. K.—Then you import all your bread corn from the other Colonies? H.—No, Sir, scarce any, except for the use of the maritime towns. In the country towns the people raise grain enough for their own expending, and sometimes for exportation. They live upon coarse bread made of rye and corn mixed, and by long use they learn to prefer this to flour or wheat bread. K.—What corn? H.—Indian corn, or, as it is called in Authors, Maize. K.—Ay, I know it. Does that make good bread? H.—Not by itself, Sir; the bread will soon be dry and husky; but the Rye keeps it moist, and some of our country people prefer a bushel of Rye to a bushel of Wheat, if the price should be the same. K.—That's very strange. Lord D.—In many parts of Scotland, Sir, Rye is much esteemed as making good and wholesome bread. The King enquired very particularly into many other parts of the produce of the country, and the natural history of it, to which I gave the best answers I was capable of. K.—New York, I think, comes the next to Boston in their opposition to Government? H.—Does your Majesty think nearer than Pennsilvania? K.—Why, I can't say that they do of late. K.—Rhode Island, Mr. H., is a strange form of Government. H.—They approach, Sir, the nearest to a Democracy of any of your Colonies. Once a year all power returns to the people, and all their Officers are new elected. By this means the Governor has no judgment of his own, and must comply with every popular prejudice. K.—Who is their Governor now? H.—His name, Sir, is Wanton, a Gentleman who I have reason to think wishes to see Government maintained as much as any they could find in the Colonies.