[E.B. O'Callaghan (ed.) (1856)] as because all those who will labor in any way here, can easily obtain support, and, therefore, are disinclined to go far from home on an uncertainty. To which can be added, the uncertainty of being able to protect themselves, unless at a greater expence than the apparent gains to be derived therefrom, seem to justify. But in order that your Great Mightinesses may be thoroughly informed herein, and understand the condition of the countries yet unoccupied by our enemies, we shall, with this view, explain to you. High and Mighty, more minutely our limits in the West Indies, together with the extent and condition thereof. The limits granted to us by your High Mightinesses begin, on the North, at New France, the bounds whereof were extended so very far by the French, that they would call in question our New Netherland, which is the first country occupied by our people. Though this district, in point of climate, ought to be as warm and suitable for fruit culture as the confines of France adjoining Spain, yet it was found to be nearly colder than the latter, yea, than more northerly countries. For this reason, then, the people conveyed thither by us have as yet been able to discover only scanty means of subsistence, and have been no advantage, but a drawback to this Company. The trade there in peltries is, indeed, very profitable, but one year with another only fifty thousand guilders, at most, can be brought home. South of this follow Virginia, Vol. I.