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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86321	Jamaica viewed with all the ports, harbours, and their several soundings, towns, and settlements thereunto belonging together, with the nature of it's climate, fruitfulnesse of the soile, and its suitableness to English complexions. With several other collateral observations and reflexions upon the island. / By E.H.	Hickeringill, Edmund, 1631-1708.	1661 (1661)	Wing H1817; Thomason E2267_1; ESTC R203343	22,599	106

JAMAICA VIEWED WITH All the Ports Harbours and their several Soundings Towns and Settlements thereunto belonging TOGETHER With the nature of it's Climate fruitfulnesse of the Soile and it's suitablenesse to English Complexions With several other collateral Observations and Reflexions upon the ISLAND The second Edition By E. H. LONDON Printed for Iohn Williams at the Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard 1661. TO THE KING'S Most Excellent MAJESTY May it please your Majesty ALl your Dominions being the happy Subjects of your care are therefore the proper objects of your view If in the throng then Jamaica here humbly presents her self to your Royal presence be pleased to Interpret this her obsequiousnesse to be duty not intrusion For since your Majesty has already graciously daign'd this Isle your Royal Patronage vouchsafe Great Sir at some vacant houre to grace It with your auspicious Aspect in this Mirrour with all humility presented by Your Majesty's faithfully devoted Servant Edm. Hickeringill TO THE READER THE Partiall Censures nick-names which prejudice and interest have injuriously impos'd upon the Island of Jamaica after it became the Refuge of that English Colony that of late unhappily invaded Hispaniola mov'd me in the negligence of better Pens to Apologize for it in this ensuing Description For indeed to describe Jamaica is to praise it nor can it look better then with it 's own face exempt from the adulterate Fucus of artificial Piliary And believe me Reader 't was no private nor politick designe hereby to allure and duccoy the unwary world but mere zeale to truth that engag'd me by my opportune continuance there to do this right to that injur'd Island Quid dem Quid non dem renuis tu quod jubet alter Hor. To my honoured Friend Capt. Edm. Hickeringill Upon his Reflexions on Iamaica At his Return THis Welcome-home how blunt so e're it be Thou vvilt accept Dear Mun coming from me And deign it to attend thy smoother Line Mine's honour'd with an Handmaid's place to thine And though thou knovv'st thou had'st my Heart before Methinks I love thee for this Book the more Which I vvould Preface vvith Applauses fit Praising therein my Iudgement and thy vvit But that thou dost detest bespoken Bayes Yet Truth compells me to prefix this Praise That as Thy pregnant Lines now life doth give Unto Jamaica here long shall it live And this epitomiz'd Vrn shall retain The Indies Memory vvhen they 're dead again Observ amicitiae ergo composuit G. E. Med. D. JAMAICA JAMAICA VIEWED THat the Island of Iamaica was rather the Grave then Granary to the first English Colony seated there after their inauspicious Enterprize upon Hispaniola cannot modestly be denied Whether occasioned by the griping Monopolie of some hoarding Officers or through want of timely Recruits alwayes found necessary for such Infant-settlements or through some fatal Conjunction of the superiour Luminaties that frown by course with a squint and malignant Aspects on one Nation or other I will not now dispute But that such a Mortality should proceed either from the Clime being scituate in the Torrid Zone a Heresie unpardonable in the ancients or from any accidental Malignitie in any of the Elements peculiarly entail'd upon it whereby it should be lesse habitable then any other most auspicious settlement remains here to be controverted The Decision whereof can be no better evidenced then by a faithfull Description Of the nature of the Clime and Soile 1. FIrst therefore it 's Climate is placed betwixt the Tropicks in 17 and 18. degrees of Northern Latitude and therefore twice every year subjected to the Perpendicular Beams of the Sun whence it borrowed the style of Torrid Zone a name which did so bugbear and affright the credulity of our Ancestors that they unjustly exil'd and raz'd it out from the habitable part of the world then monopoliz'd in the temperate Zones till the more daring spirits of Columbus and others convoy'd us to an experimental confidence in the contrary the Chariby Islands Barbadoes St. Kits Mevis Antego c. having prov'd as happy to the complexions and constitutions of English men as Virginia New England nay as Portugal Spain Italy or any other confines upon the Mediterranean Sea all which notwithstanding are scituate in the Temperate Zone a term of Art that now Ironically scandalizes that vulgar division of the World into Zones habitable the Temperate Zones and inhabitable the Frigid and Torrid Zone For I must avouch that I have found the Air as sulphurous and hot in England in the moneths of Iune Iuly and August especially whilest the Sun was near the Meridian as in the hottest seasons at Iamaica whilest the Sun makes a double in Cancer or in Guiana in the moneths of March and September whilest the Sun gallops or'e their Zenith in the Aequinox And this will appear to be no such prodigious a Paradox if we be undeceived of that vulgar errour that the neighbourhood of the Sun is the only cause of extream heat and it's elongation the reason of extremity of cold for if so our Summers would be equally hot one year as another and each day after the Sun's departure from the winter Solstice hotter then another 'till he had posted over his halfdirect stages to face about in retrograde Cancer both which experience doth disprove for though his appropriation and elongation be the same every year yet our Summers and Winters are not equally hot and cold and therefore we must seek out for more intrinsecal and occult causes which now are not the Asylum of ignorance since we can certainly ascribe them to the Sun's Conjunction improperly termed an Aspect and his Aspects with other Planets together with his configurations with the Fixed starres for the weather is usually the hottest with us in England after the Sun hath taken his leave of us from his nearest visit and most fervent Complement in the foot of Gemini with his old fashion'd Congee in the Right knee and shoulder of Orion and Auriga and our hottest seasons are the Dogge dayes yet doth not the Sun accompany the lesser heavenly Dogge till he come to his feminine nocturnal and unfortunate Lodging which is in the eighteenth Degree of Cancer of which more at large you may consult Astronomy my business here being only to present you with an Historical Truth And as the coldnesse of our Night-air in England tempers our hottest and most canine seasons so the fresh Breezes that rise alwayes with the Sun doe fanne the sweltering and sultry Climes within the Tropicks so that the dayes are usually as cold as the nights except towards the morning and then a culinary fire is had in request though the Inhabitants are thought to be dandled in Apollo's Lap or as the Poets feign to have been scorch'd when rash Phaeton mistook his way in his unskill'd and unhappy Journey magnae pereunt cum moenibus urbes Cumque suis totas populis incendiae Gentes In cinerem vertunt sylvae cum montibus