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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A33345	A true and faithful account of the four chiefest plantations of the English in America to wit, of Virginia, New-England, Bermudus, Barbados : with the temperature of the air, the nature of the soil, the rivers, mountains, beasts, fowls, birds, fishes, trees, plants, fruits, &c. : as also, of the natives of Virginia, and New-England, their religion, customs, fishing, hunting, &c. / collected by Samuel Clarke ...	Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.	1670 (1670)	Wing C4558; ESTC R17743	124,649	128

neither of them sweet The Saint Jago Flower is very beautiful but of an unpleasing smell Another flower they have that opens not till Sun setting and is closed all day and therefore they call it the Flower of the Moon It grows in great tufts the Leaves like a heart the point turning back The flower is of a most pure Purple After the flower appears the seed black with an eye of Purple of the shape of a small Button so finely wrought and tough with all as it may well trim a suit of Apparel There is Purceane so plentifully every where as makes it disesteemed Herbs and Roots There are brought from England Rosemary Time Winter-Savory Sweet-Marjerom Pot-Marjerom Parsly Penny-royal Camomil Sage Tansie Lavender Cotton Garlick Onions Coleworts Cabbage Turnips Redishes Marigold Lettice Taragon Southern-wood c. all which prosper well There is a Root which was brought thither by the Negroes Large dry and well tasted It 's good boyled to eat with Pork mixt with Butter Vineger and Pepper It 's as big as three of our largest Turnips The strength of the Island This Island is strong by scituation For there cannot be any safe Landing but where the Harbours and Bayes are which lie to the South-West and those places are so Defencible by Nature as with small cost they are strongly fortified In the year one thousand six hundred and fifty they were able to muster ten thousand Foot as good and Resolute men as any in the World and a thousand good Horse and since then they are much increased Their Laws and Government Their Laws are like ours in England and they are governed by a Governour and ten of his Council four Courts of Justice in Civil Laws which divide the Countrey into four Circuits Justices of Peace Constables Churchwardens and Tithingmen Five Sessions in a year were held for trial of Criminal Causes and Appeals from Inferiour Courts When the Governour pleases to call an Assembly for the last Appeals and making new Laws or abolishing the Old It consists of the Governour his Councel and two Burgesses chosen by every Parish There are in the Island eleven Parishes No Tithe paid to the Minister but a yearly allowance of a Pound of Tobacco upon an Acre of every mans Land besides Church-Duties for Marriages Baptizings and Burials Their Weather Four Moneths in the year the Weather is colder then in the other eight and those are November December January and February yet are they hotter then with us in May. There is no general Fall of the Leaf every Tree having a particular time for it self as if two Locust-trees stand but at a stones cast distance one lets fall her leaves in January another in March another in July another in September The Leaves when Fallen under the Tree being most of them large and stiff when they were growing and full of veins from the middle stalk to the upper end when the thin part of the Leaf is consumed those veins appear like Skelletons with the strangest works and beautifullest Forms that can be imagined Negroes Heads They also find in the Sands things that they call Negroes-heads about two Inches long with a Forehead Eyes Nose Mouth Chin and part of the Neck They are alwayes found loose in the Sands without any Root It is black as Jet but whence it comes they know not TAR They have no Mines not so much as of Coles in the Islands There flows out of the Rock an Unctious substance somewhat like Tar It is excellent good to stop a Flux being drunk And for all Aches and Bruises being anointed with it It is so subtile that being put into the hand and rubbed there it works through the back of it PITCH and MOVNTIACK There is another Gumming Substance that is black and hard as Pitch and is used as Pitch they call call it Mountiack An Excellent REMEDY Against the STONE MY Author relates this Story concerning himself that during his abode in the Barbadoes he was taken with such a fit of the Stone that for fourteen dayes together he made not one drop of water But when he despaired of life God sent him such a Remedy as the World cannot afford a better For within ten hours after this taking of it he found himself not only eased but cured It brought away all the stones and gravel that stopped the passage and his water came as freely from him as ever before and caried before it such quantities of broken stones and gravel that the like hath hardly been seen And afterwards being in the like torment he used the same remedy and found the same ease The Medicine was this Take the Pizle of a green Turtle that lives in the Sea dry it with a moderate heat pound it in a Morter and take as much of this Powder as will lie upon a shilling in Beer Ale or Whitewine and in a short time it will work the cure These Turtles are frequent in the Chariby and Lucayick Islands near to the Barbadoes to which many of them are brought Three sorts of Turtles There are 3. sorts of Turtles The Loggerhead-Turtle the Hawks-bill-Turtle and the green Turtle which is of a less magnitude but far excelling the other two in wholesomness and rareness of tast That part of the Island which is the most remote from the Bridge the onely place of Trading by reason of deep and steep Gullies interposing the passage is almost stopt Besides the Land there is not so rich and fit to bear Canes as the other Yet it 's very useful for planting Provisions of Corn Bonavist Cassavy Potatoes c. As also of Fruit as Oranges Limons Lymes Plantanes Bonanoes Likewise for breeding of Hoggs Sheep Goats Cattel and Poultry to furnish either parts of the Island which wants those Commodities The Sugar Canes are fifteen Moneths from the time of their planting before they come to be fully ripe From the Island of Bonavista they have Horses brought to them whose Hooves are so hard and tough that they ride them at the Barbadoes down sharp and steep Rocks without shooes And no Goat goes surer on the sides of Rocks or Hills then they FINIS Here place the Examples of Minerals and Stones EXAMPLES OF THE Wonderful Works OF GOD IN THE CREATURES CHAP. I. Of strange Stones Earth and Minerals 1. IN Cornwal near unto a place called Pensans is that famous stone called Main-Amber which is a great Rock advanced upon some other of meaner size with so equal a counterpoize that a man may stir it with the push of his finger but to remove it quite out of his place a great number of men are not able Camb. Brit. p. 188. The like is in the Country of Stratherne in Scotland 2. In Summerset-shire near unto Cainsham are found in Stone-quarries stones resembling Serpents winding round in manner of a wreath the head bearing up in the Circumference and the end of the tail taking up the centre within but most of them are headless