Brazil Plantation

" But as abus'd Prosperity is often time made the
very Means of our greatest Adversity, so was it with
me. I went on the next Years with great success in
my Plantation: I raised fifty great Rolls of Tobacco
on my own Ground, more than I disposed of for
Necessaries; and these fifty Rolls being each of above
a 100 WT were well cur'd and laid by against the
Return of the fleet from Lisbon: and now increasing in
business and in Wealth, my Head began to be full of
Projects and Undertaking b