Excerpt from Libraries and Literature in North Carolina in the Eighteenth Century The chief reasons for the slow growth of the province are to be found in the bad government and neglect of the proprietors, who devoted themselves to building up the colony on Ashley River and allowed that of Albemarle to get along the best it could; to the persistent hostility of the Crown and its agents and of the British merchants to the proprietary government, North Carolina, its Settlement and Growth, p. 10. Lbid., p. 2. Colonial Records, IV, 605. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.