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A30076	Virginia impartially examined, and left to publick view, to be considered by all iudicious and honest men under which title is comprehended the degrees from 34 to 39, wherein lyes the rich and healthfull countries of Roanock, the now plantations of Virginia and Mary-land ... / by William Bullock, Gent.	Bullock, William, b. 1617?	1649 (1649)	Wing B5428; ESTC R4071	45,380	81

Raspices Maracokes Puchamines Muskmelons Pumpions Apples Peares Quinces Apricocks Peaches c. There is all sorts of English Fruit trees insomuch that out of one Orchard hath beene made in one yeare fiftie Butts of Perry and out of another thirtie Butts of Cyder For Roots there is Potatoes Parsnips Onyons Sparragras Carrots Turneps Hartichokes all sorts of Herbes for Physick or Pot all which grow without any such trouble as is taken for them in England and for delicacie farre exceeding the best Gardens here in England For English Provisions There is above thirtie thousand Head of Cattell and an infinite number of Hogges in such plentie that you may buy Beese and Porke under sixteene pence a Stone Wheat and Barley is very cheape most of them brew their owne Beere and have divers publique Brew-houses that brew excellent Beere and Ale Goats flesh and Mutton but not yet so plentifull by reason they have not beene suffered to encrease till of late yeares There is all sorts of tame English Fowle There is above two hundred Horses and Mares and above seventie Asses these came thither but of late yeares Naturall Commodities of the Countrey are 1. Silke grasse Of which I have seene here in England drest exceeding strong and pure fine like Silke which without question would make strong Stuffes A piece of Grogram was made of this Silk-grasse and presented to Queene Elizabeth Silke In Roanock they found Silk-wormes bigger then Walnuts and were informed by the Indians that higher in the Countrey there were abundance and bigger Flax and Hempe Which differs something from ours in the Leafe and Stalke but thought to be every way as good Allum Nitrum Alumem plumeum Are all to be had from a mightie Veine of Earth that runnes all alongst the Sea Coast on the Southermost part of Virginia Wapock Of the same value with Terra Sigelata Pitch Tarre Rosin Turpentine many Drugs Wine from three sorts of Grapes Oyle from Walnuts and excellent sweet Oyle from three sorts of Berries about the bignesse of Acrons divers sorts of Firre Sivet Cats up Roanock River where is Pearle also to be had Iron Copper Tynne Lead divers kinds of sweet Gummes severall sorts of Dyes Woad and Sugar Canes in Roanock To which you may adde they being now there and which yeelds wonderfull increase English Corne of all sorts Rice Flax and Hempe Pot-ashes Rape-seed and to say no more you shall not finde the Earth ungratefull for any thing you trust her with And to encourage Gentlemen that are desirous of winning honour by making Discoveries of such places as may bring the greatest Wealth and Riches to their owne Countries in which they shall not onely very much enrich themselves but eternize their Names let them peruse M. Henry Briggs that famous Mathematician his Booke printed about 28 yeares since wherein he makes it plaine that a Trade from Virginia may be easily driven into the South and West Sea lying on the backside of Virginia not farre distant from thence and so consequently to the East Indies and this by Rivers that have their Rise in the same place with the great Rivers of Virginia but as the Virginia Rivers empty themselves into the East or North Sea so the other Rivers empty themselves into the West or South Sea In the degrees of 34 and 35 they receive three Harvests in five Moneths of the Indian Corn from the self-same ground viz. they sowe in Aprill and reape in June sowe in June and reape in July sowe in July and reape in August Virginia yeelds two Harvests in one yeare viz. they reape their Wheat in July and then sowe Barley and reape in October Their increase is generall from 8 quarters to 12 quarters of an Acre Their Indian Corne yields them above 250 quarters for one English fruits that have been transported bear wonderfully and twice as fair as in England and in deliciousnesse farre exceeding what they were before their Apricocks and Peaches grow all on standing Trees and not against Walls Let this suffice for the Countrey SECT. II. I Am in the next place in order to the Cure first to discover the Disease of this Country and how contracted of which The Government is the greatest of all for no wise man will either transport himselfe or send his estate to such a place where is no setled Government and wholsome Lawes to preserve mens lives and estates and to maintaine honest commerce The Government is by Governour Councell and Assembly The Governour is commonly a Stranger sent from England and is to last but three yeares in which time he must not be blamed if he doe his owne Worke Amongst other things he can call Trustees and Debtors to be of the Councell which puts the Adventurer to a stand And this well considered hath gone a great way in the Disease For by it Justice is stifled and the Adventurer must never hope for Justice since the Debtor is by the Governours favour made both Judge and Party by which meanes 't is cleare the greater the Aduenture the surer lost for the Trustee shall be the sooner a Councellor In these things I speake experimentally of such as were before but doe not charge the present Governours for by their care the Plantation is in some reasonable condition of recovery Next by the People The Assembly in manner as it hath beene chosen hath been mischievous for they have not beene elected for their honesties and abilities but by their great Port although maintained with an Adventurers purse and such was the Assembly when most of them being bound to pay Mony-Debts made an Act of Assembly that they should pay their Debts in Tobacco at 12. d. per li. when it was sold at the same time in the Countrey for one penny The Laws were bad and worse administred by which meanes industrie was discouraged and strifes countenanced The Councells time that should be better spent for the encouraging of others taken up in hearing but not determining unnecessary strifes Next the Disease growes by the Commoditie they have and doe make their Staple which First from the very infancy of the Plantation they have made Tobacco their Staple which hath been sent for England in such quantities as many yeares there hath beene some hundred thousand pounds weight not worth the fraught and custome and by this means many a poore Planter hath been destroyed Secondly Tobacco being once in the ground is never out of hand till in the Hogs-head and which is the misery of it the Moneths of June July and August being the very height of the Summer the poore Servant goes daily through the rowes of Tobacco stooping to worme it and being over-heated he is struck with a Calenture or Feaver and so perisheth This hath been the losse of divers men Thirdly the Tobacco is ripe but once in the year and Ships goe for Virginia at that time when they may have the Tobacco for their home-ward fraught there being nothing else to lade

severall Plantations abroad to the end they might make choice of the best in which they are much troubled with the various relations both by books and men whose onely aime is to draw all men to themselves and to further that Work are liberall to abuse all other places but their own by which means men are disperst abroad in severall small numbers at great distances from each other which is very uncomfortable and disccusolate whereas if they had been all directed to any one good place they might have been in this time a great and flourishing people and finding also without disparaging of other places that this Countrey of Virginia is abundantly stored with what is by all men aimed at viz. Health and Wealth so that there wants nothing to their happinesse that go over but good Instructions which were never yet endeavoured more then to shew the place I thought that man that should kindly take the stranger by the hand and lead him to it shewing him not onely the richest Mines but also how to dig them would deserve much thanks I cannot omit by way of Caution to my deere Countrey-men to admonish them That at this time there is much strugling to draw men to new Plantations never yet seated and if they will peruse the books that have been set forth in the Infancy of the most of our English Plantations abroad they shall see with what losse and dangers they have beene setled viz. by having their ships cast away for want of knowledge of the place by want of food till supplies by strange diseases never before heard of by Divisions and Factions amongst themselves and an innumerable of other Incidents happening to them whereby the places have beene severall times deserted and again Planted before ever we could keep our footing Wherefore I shall advise all men to make use of other mens wofull experience and to dispose themselves to such places as are already Planted where all difficulties are now overcome THE TABLE SECTION I. THe Lands and Bounds in 1. Reanock page 2. 2. Virginia The temperature of the Ayre 3. Mary-land What this Countrey affords of Beasts Fowles Birds and Fish for foode and commoditie viz. 1. Beasts for foode p. 4. 2. Beasts of prey 5 3. Fowles and Birds for foode ibid. 4. Birds for delight 6 5. Birds of prey ibid. 6. Fish for foode and commoditie ibid. 7. For present use and spending ibid. What Trees Fruits Rootes and Plants are naturally found in this Countrey What English Provisions and what stores are there at this time ibid. What Commodities are here found growing from Nature 8 SECT. II. The true reason how this Countries prosperitie hath beene hindered which is tearmed the Countries Disease which hath beene viz. 1. By the Government p. 10 2. By the Commoditie that they have alwayes made their Staple 11 3. By not raysing Commodities to drive a Trade for Ships ibid. 4. By miscarriage of good designes for Staple Commodities 12 5. By the Indians ibid. 6. By malitious slanders 13 7. By the unfitnesse of the people transported 14 SECT. III. How the Countrey may be recovered viz 1. By an equall Government and that Government proposed p. 18 2. By raysing Commodities for the constant imployment of Shipping which hath made New-England and Barbado's flourish and will quickly doe this there being much more advantage in the place 30 3. By fixing upon Corne Rice Rape-seed and Flax and all the rest of the rich Commodities examined how and when to be falne upon but for the present layd by with the reasons 33 SECT. IV. A Scale whereby after the proportion of 60. li. stock all men may know how to lay out their money for advantage viz. 1. How they shall lay it out in England p. 35 2. How they shall dispose of themselves when they come over into the Countrey 36 3. What how much ground they shal plough and sowe and with what 38 4. What their first years Crop may produce in the Countrey 40 5. If they will send it for England what it shall produce there and how to insure it 42 6. What they may be worth the third yeare ibid. A great incouragement to people of all degrees 43 SECT. V. How Passengers may bee best transported for Health and Charge viz. 1. By the old way with the convenience and inconvenience p. 46 2. How to goe in the old way and yet save a third part of the Charge 48 3. A Victualling proposed for the Planter in his Voyage thither 49 4. To goe by New-England Ships 50 5. The best and the neerest way to goe by the New-found-land Ships in March April or May where you may goe at halfe the old Charges ibid. When the Gentlemen are over in the Countrey how they shall dispose of themselves till they be setled 51 A great Incouragement both for Masters and Servants Shewing How Masters shall imploy their Servants to their best profit without their oversight or trouble 53 How Servants shall worke for their Masters and themselves without hard labour 54 SECT. VI How to reclaime the Indians viz. 1. Wherein is first considered Love p. 54 2. Force 55 It being not to be done either of these two wayes 3. A third way is proposed ibid. SECT. VII An Advice to the Adventurer pag. 60 An Advice to the Planter ibid. An Advice to Servants 62 The Authors offer to all men by which they 'l finde he 's unbyast and in this Worke hath no private ends He freely offereth to all that shall be desirous to be further satisfied concerning any particular mentioned in this Booke or shall meet with any Objections to any thing therein propounded to repaire to the Author who will cleare all Doubts and shew them the best and newest Draught or Plot of the Countrey Reade this first the VVorke next BEfore you cast your eye upon the Worke it self look stedfastly upon the Author and as thou likest him give him credit whilst he tells thee that he was never in this Place himself he writes of with such considence and therefore before he began he had many strugling thoughts within him perswading and disswading But when he considered it is no new thing out of collections to make up the Historie of a Kingdom And that the Work is not so much to set out the Country it having been already done by many experienced men as to take off that Odium that malitious tongues have thrown upon it By discovering the true grounds and reason why the prosperitie thereof hath beene so long obstructed and to apply a perfect cure to it As also having Warrant that the Places are what he sets them forth from the discoveries of M. Heriot M. Laine and Captaine Smith Printed neere forty yeares since and divers severall Bookes lately Printed and also having discoursed severally and at severall times with Captaine Mathewes Captaine Peirce Captaine Willoughby Captaine Clabourne and divers others the principall men of that Country here in England