easie
laborer will keepe and tend two acres of corne, and cure a
good store of tobacco--being yet the principall commoditie
the colony for the present yieldeth.

"For which as for other commodities, the councell and
company for Virginia have already sent a ship thither,
furnished with all manner of clothing, household stuff and
such necessaries, to establish a magazine there, which the
people shall buy at easie rates for their commodities--they
selling them at such prices that the adventurers may be no
loosers. This magazine shalbe yearelie supplied to furnish
them, if they will endeavor, by their labor, to maintayne
it--which wilbe much beneficiall to the planters and
adventurers, by interchanging their commodities, and will
add much encouragement to them and others to preserve and
follow the action with a constant resolution to uphold the
same."

The colony at this time was engaged in planting corn and tobacco,
"making pitch and tarr, potashes, charcole, salt," and in fishing. Of
Jamestown he says:

"At James Toune (seated on the north side of the river, from
West and Sherley Hundred lower down about thirty-seven
miles) are fifty, under the command of lieutenant Sharpe, in
the absence of capten Francis West, Esq., brother to the
right ho'ble the L. Lawarre,--whereof thirty-one are
farmors; all theis maintayne themselves with food and
rayment. Mr. Richard Buck minister there--a verie good
preacher."

Rev. Hugh Jones "Chaplain to the Honourable Assembly, and lately
Minister of James-Towne and in Virginia," in a work entitled--"The
Present State of Virginia," gives the following account of the
cultivation of tobacco:

"When a tract of land is seated, they clear it by felling
the trees about a yard from the ground, lest they should
shoot again. What wood they have occasion for they carry
off, and burn the rest, or let it lie and rot upon the
ground. The land between the logs and stumps they hoe up,
planting tobacco there in the spring, inclosing it with a
slight fence of cleft rails. This will last for tobacco some
years, if the land be good; as it is where fine timber, or
grape vines grow. Land when hired is forced to bear tobacco
by penning their cattle upon it; but cowpen tobacco tastes
strong, and that planted in wet marshy land is call