From this discourse it is clear that the long looked-for discovery of
the _Indian_ Sea does nearly approach; and _Carolina_, out of her happy
experience of your Lordships success in great undertakings, presumes that
the accomplishment of this glorious Designe is reserved for her. In order
to which, the _Apalatæan_ Mountains (though like the prodigious Wall
that divides _China_ and _Tartary_, they deny _Virginia_ passage into
the West Continent) stoop to your Lordships Dominions, and lay open a
Prospect into unlimited Empires; Empires that will hereafter be ambitious
of subjection to that noble Government which by your Lordships deep
wisdom and providence first projected, is now established in _Carolina_;
for it will appear that she flourishes more by the influence of that,
than the advantages she derives from her Climate and Soyl, which yet do
render her the Beauty and Envy of North-_America_. That all her glories
should be seen in this Draught, is not reasonably to be expected, since
the fate to my Author but once, and then too with a side-face; and
therefore I must own it was never by him designed for the Press, but
published by me, out of no other ambition than that of manifesting to the
world, that I am
My Lord,
Your Lordships most humble and obedient Servant,
_William Talbot_.