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100 1 $aGlen, James,$d1701-1777.
245 12 $aA description of South Carolina; :$bcontaining, many curious and interesting particulars relating to the civil, natural and commercial history of that colony, viz. the succession of European settlers there; grants of English charters; boundaries; constitution of the government; taxes; number of inhabitants, and of the neighbouring Indian nations. &c. The nature of the climate; tabular accounts of the altitudes of the barometer monthly for four years, of the depths of rain monthly for eleven years, and of the winds direction daily for one year, &c. The culture and produce of rice, Indian corn, and indigo; the process of extracting tar and turpentine; and the state of their maritime trade in the years 1710, 1723, 1740 and 1748, with the number or tonnage of shipping employed, and the species, quantities and values of their produce exported in one year, &c. To which is added, a very particular account of their rice-trade for twenty years, with their exports of raw silk and imports of British silk manufactures for twenty-five years.
260 $aLondon: :$bPrinted for R. and J. Dodsley in Pall-Mall.,$cMDCCLXI. [1761]
300 $aviii, 110, [2] p. ;$c21 cm. (8vo)
500 $aEvidently based on a manuscript entitled: Answers from James Glen, esq. govr. of South Carolina, to the queries from the right honourable the lords commissioners for trade and plantations (first published in P.C.J. Weston's Documents connected with the history of South Carolina, London, 1856, p. [61]-99)
500 $aSignatures: [A]⁴, B-G⁸, H-I⁴ ([A]1 and [A]2 versos blank)
500 $aIncludes index.
500 $a"Books printed for R. and J. Dodsley, at Tull's Head in Pall-Mall." : p. [1]-[2] at the end.
510 4 $aBrown, J.C. Bibliotheca Americana,$cIII : 1306.
510 4 $aSabin$c27572.
510 4 $aChurch, E. D. Discovery,$c1039.
650 4 $aBooksellers' catalogs$zGreat Britain$y1761.
651 0 $aSouth Carolina$xHistory$yColonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
651 0 $aSouth Carolina$xDescription and travel.
651 0 $aSouth Carolina$xCommerce.
653 $aImprint 1761.
752 $aEngland$dLondon.
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