Schemes and Propositions for the better Promotion of Learning, Religion, Inventions, Manufactures, and Trade in Virginia, and the other Plantations.

For the Information of the Curious, and for the Service of such as are engaged in the Propagation of the Gospel and Advancement of Learning, and for the Use of all Persons concerned in the

Virginia Trade and Plantation.


Gen. ix. 27.

God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the Tents of Shem, and Canaan shall be his Servant.


By HUGH JONES, A. M.

Chaplain to the Honourable Assembly, and lately Minister of James-Town, &c. in Virginia.