Ans: This is as true as writing that there is scarcely a fowl to be seen, or a fish to be caught; things likely to be true in a country where so many ships come fishing yearly! They might as well say that no ale or beer in London can be kept from going sour.
Obj. 9. Many of them steal from one another.
Ans: If London had been free from that crime, we should not have been troubled with it here. It is well known that several have smarted well for it—and so are the rest likely to do whenever they are caught.
Obj. 10. The country is over-run with foxes and wolves.
Ans: So are many other good countries, too; but poison, traps, and other such means will help to destroy them.
Obj. 11. The Dutch are settled near Hudson’s Bay, and are likely to overthrow the trade.
Ans: They would come and settle here as well, if we and others did not, or if we went home and left it to them. We rather commend them, than condemn them for it.
Obj. 12. The people are much pestered with mosquitoes.
Ans: They are too delicate and unfit to begin new plantations and colonies who cannot endure the biting of a mosquito. We would wish such to keep at home,—at least till they be mosquito proof. But this is as free as any, and experience teaches that the more the land is tilled and the woods cut down, the fewer there will be,—and in the end scarcely any at all.