"As touching the quality of this country, three thinges there bee which in fewe yeares may bring this Colony to perfection; the English plough, Vineyards, and Cattle. For the first, there be many grounds here cleared by the Indians to our handes, which being much worne out, will beare no more of their corne, which requireth an extrordinary deale of sappe and substance to nourish it; but of our graine of all sortes it will bear great abundance....
Vines here are in suche abundance...I have tasted here of a great black grape as big as a Damascin...the vine whereeof now spending itselfe to the topps of high trees, if it were reduced into a vineyard, and there domesticated, would yield incomparable fruite....For cattle, they do mightily increase here, both kine, hogges and goates, and are much greater in stature, then the race of them first brought out of England. No lesse are our horses and mares likely to multiply, which proove of a delicate shape, and of as good spirite and metall.
All our riches for the present doe consiste in Tobacco...
(p. 283-85, Narratives of Early Virginia: 1606-1625, Lyon G. Tyler, ed. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1907)