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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A48447	A true & exact history of the island of Barbados illustrated with a mapp of the island, as also the principall trees and plants there, set forth in their due proportions and shapes, drawne out by their severall and respective scales : together with the ingenio that makes the sugar, with the plots of the severall houses, roomes, and other places that are used in the whole processe of sugar-making ... / by Richard Ligon, Gent.	Ligon, Richard.	1657 (1657)	Wing L2075; ESTC R5114	151,046	156

Colworts Cabbage Turnips Redishes Marigolds Lettice Taragon Southernwood All these I carried with me in seeds and all grew and prospered well Leek-Seed I had which appeared to me very fresh and good but it never came up Rose trees we have but they never bear flowers There is a Root of which some of the Negres brought the Seeds and planted there and they grew 'T is a very large Root drie and well tasted the manner of planting it is to make little hills as big as Mole-hills and plant the seed a top and as soon as it puts forth the stalks they turn down to the ground on either side and then as they touch it they thrust up a stalk not unlike an Asparagus but of a purple colour These being gathered and eaten as a Sallet with oyle vinegar and salt will serve an ordinary pallet where no better is to be had But the root truly is very good meat boyl'd with powdred pork and eaten with butter vinegar and pepper Most of these roots are as large as three of the biggest Turnips we have in England We carried divers of them to Sea for our provision which stood us in good stead and would have serv'd us plentifully in our great want of victualls but the Rats of which we had infinite numbers aboard rob'd us of the most part # That part of the Iland which lies to the windeward and is part East part North the stormes and stiffe windes comming from those points have so wash'd away all earthly substance as there remaines nothing but steep Rocks and the Sea being very deep on that side the Anchors will hardly touch the bottom though the Cables be long so that what Ship soever rides on that side comes at her owne perill Contrarily if any Ship be under Sail on the Leeward side and goes but so far out as to lose the shelter of the Iland it is certain to be carried away down to the leeward Ilands and then it will be a very hard work to beat it up again without putting out into the Main So that there can hardly be any safe landing but where the Harbours and Baies are which lie to the Southwest and those places are so defensible by Nature as with small costs they may be very strongly fortified But they have been much neglected by the Proprietor for which reason and some others the Planters refused to call him by that name There was a Gentleman in the Iland who pretended to be a Souldier and an Ingeneer that undertook to fortifie all the landing places and to furnish them with such store of Artillery as should be sufficient to defend them provided he might have the Excise paid to him for seven years which was promised by the Governour and Assembly Whereupon he went to work and made such a Fort as when abler Ingeneers came upon the Iland they found to be most pernicious for commanding all the Harbour and not of strength to defend it selfe if it were taken by an enemy might do much harm to the land-ward So that at my comming from thence they were pulling it down and instead of it to make Trenches and Rampiers with Pallisadoes Horn-works Curtains and Counter-scarfes and having left a very good Fortification of standing wood round about the Iland near the Sea these were thought as much as needed for their defence against the landing of any forraign Forces and for their strength within # They built three Forts one for a Magazine to lay their Amonition and Powder in the other two to make their retreats upon all occasions At my comming from thence they were ab●e to muster ten thousand Foot as good men and as resolute as any in the world and a thousand good Horse and this was the strength of the Iland about the time I came away # They Govern there by the Lawes of England for all Criminall Civill Martiall Ecclesiasticall and Maritime affairs This Law is administred by a Governour and ten of his Councill four Courts of ordinary Justice in Civill causes which divide the land in four Circuits Justices of Peace Constables Churchwardens and Tithing-men five Sessions in the year for tryall of Criminall causes and all Appeals from inferiour Courts in Civill causes And when the Governour pleases to call an Assembly for the supream Court of all for the last Appeales for making new Lawes and abolishing old according to occasion in nature of the Parliament of England and accordingly consists of the Governour as Supream his Councill in nature of the Peers and two Burgesses chosen by every Parish for the rest The Iland is divided into eleven Parishes No Tithes paid to the Minister but a yearly allowance of a pound of Tobacco upon an acre of every mans land besides certain Church-duties of Mariages Christenings and Burialls A standing Commission there was also for punishing Adultery and Fornication though rarely put in execution Something would be said concerning the seasons of the year but it is little therfore wil be the least troublesome Four months in the year the weather is colder then the other eight those are November December January February yet they are hotter than with us in May. There is no generall Fall of the leafe every Tree having a particular fall to himself as if two Locusts stands at the distance of a stones cast they have not their falls at one time one Locust will let fall the leaves in January another in March a third in July a fourth in September and so all months one kinde of Trees having their severall times of falling But if any month falls more leaves then other 't is February for so in my nicest observation I found it The leaves we finde fallen under the trees being the most of them large and stiffe when they were growing and having many veines which go from the middle stalk to the uppermost extent of the leafe when the thin part of the leafe is rotten and consum'd those veines appear like Anatomies with the strangest works and beautifullest formes that I have seen fit to be kept as a rarity in the Cabinets of the greatest Princes As also the Negres heads which we finde in the sands and they are about two inches long with a forehead eyes nose mouth chin and part of the neck I cannot perceive any root by which they grow but find them alwaies loose in the sand nor is it a fruit that falls from any tree for then we should finde it growing black it is as jet but from whence it comes no man knowes # Mines there are none in this Iland not so much as of Coal for which reason we preserve our Woods as much as we can We finde flowing out of a Rock in one part of the Iland an unctuous substance somewhat like Tarre which is thought to have many vertues yet unknown but is already discovered to be excellent good to stop a flux by drinking it but by annointing for all aches