[670] Lodge (Short History, etc., p. 65) refers, on the modes of cultivating tobacco, to sundry travellers’ accounts of the last century: Anburey, ii. 344; Brissot de Warville, 375; Weld, 116; Rochefoucauld, 80; Smyth, i. 59.
Cf. The present state of the tobacco plantations in America (about 1709), folio leaf (Sabin, xv. 65,332).
[671] See Vol. III. p. 165. A paper by Sir William Keith on “The Present State of the Colonies in America with respect of Great Britain” is in Wynne’s ed. of the Byrd MSS., ii. 214, with (p. 228) Gov. Gooch’s “Researches” on the same. Walsh in his Appeal (part i. sect. 5) shows the benefits reaped by Great Britain from the American trade, making use of an essay on the subject by Sir William Keith (1728) which will be found in Burk’s Virginia (vol. ii. ch. 2).
[672] See Vol. III. p. 165; Cooke’s Virginia, 361.
[673] The four volumes, 1804-16, which make up a complete set of Burk are now rather costly. Stevens, Bibl. Amer., 1885, no. 59, prices them at £18 18s. See Vol. III. p. 165.
[674] United States, orig. ed., ii. 248; iii. 25; and later eds.
[675] Short Hist., 23, etc.
[676] Vol. III. p. 166.
[677] It forms one of the American Commonwealths, edited by H. E. Scudder.
[678] Cf. Wm. Green’s “Genesis of Counties” in Philip Slaughter’s Memoir of Hon. Wm. Green; and Edward Channing’s Town and County Government in the English Colonies of North America, being no. x. of the 2d series of the same Johns Hopkins University Studies. Cf. also Henry O. Taylor’s “Development of Constitutional Government in the American Colonies,” in the Mag. of Amer. History, Dec., 1878,—a summary contrasting Massachusetts and Virginia.