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description of the natural resources of the southern Atlantic seaboard
published in colonial times. It is a book of nature rather than of
history and one of fascinating interest which cannot be read without
admiring and loving the author and mourning his sad fate. Poor Lawson
was burned at the stake by the Indians in 1711. We cannot refrain from
quoting his description of North Carolina as printed on page 79 of
his history: "A delicious country, being placed in that girdle of the
world which affords wine, oil, fruit, grain, and silk, with other rich
commodities, besides a sweet air, moderate climate, and fertile soil.
These are the blessings, under Heaven's protection, that spin out the
thread of life to its utmost extent, and crown our days with the sweets
of health and plenty, which, when joined with content, render the
possessors the happiest race of men upon earth."
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[123] Acrelius, Israel _The History of New Sweden, or the Settlements
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