Aprilian

The different habits and commercial purſuits of the modern world have rendered it neceſſary to diſcard the rêveries of the philoſophers and ſchoolmen, who have argued and fulminated againſt the practice of lending money for gain; and, indeed, ſome ſpeculators have plauſibly maintained the abſurdity and impolicy of any legal interference with reſpect to the terms of pecuniary negotiations.

Two miles beyond the eastermost town there are black rocks, which continue to the uttermost cape or point of the land for the space of a league, after which the land runs E.N.E. Some negroes came down to these black rocks, whence they waved a white flag for us to land; but as we were near the principal town, we continued our course along shore, and when we had opened the point of land we perceived another head-land about a league farther on, having a rock lying off to sea, which was thought to be the place of which were in search.

Dozens of unworked obsidian cobbles were found buried with the deceased.