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city_n	call_v	great_a	river_n	9,026	5	7.1511	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14803	A declaration of the state of the colony and affaires in Virginia With a relation of the barbarous massacre in the time of peace and league, treacherously executed by the natiue infidels vpon the English, the 22 of March last. Together with the names of those that were then massacred; that their lawfull heyres, by this notice giuen, may take order for the inheriting of their lands and estates in Virginia. And a treatise annexed, written by that learned mathematician Mr. Henry Briggs, of the Northwest passage to the South Sea through the continent of Virginia, and by Fretum Hudson. Also a commemoration of such worthy benefactors as haue contributed their Christian charitie towards the aduancement of the colony. And a note of the charges of necessary prouisions fit for euery man that intends to goe to Virginia. Published by authoritie.	Waterhouse, Edward, colonist.; Briggs, Henry, 1561-1630.; Virginia Company of London. Inconveniencies that have happened to some persons which have transported themselves from England to Virginia, without provisions necessary to sustaine themselves, hath greatly hindred the progresse of that noble plantation.	1622 (1622)	STC 25104; ESTC S111598	27,991	65

kinds of graine or plants committed vnto it wi●h a rich and plentifull encrease yet cannot the fatnesse of the earth alone produce such excellent effects vnlesse the temperature of the Ayre bee likewise so fauourable that those tender sprouts which the earth doth abundantly bring forth may bee cherished with moderate heate and seasonable moisture and freed both from scorching drought and nipping frost These blessings are so much the more to bee esteemed because they are bestowed vpon a place situated so conueniently and at so good a distance both from Europe and the West Indies that for the mutuall commerce betwixt these great and most rich parts of the habitable world there cannot bee deuised any place more conuenient for the succour and refreshing of those that trade from hence thither whether they be of our owne nation or of our neighbours and friends the multitude of great and nauigable Riuers and of safe and spacious harbours as it were inuiting all Nations to entertaine mutuall friendship and to participate of those blessings which God out of the abundance of his rich Treasures hath so gratiously bestowed some vpon these parts of Europe and others no lesse desired vpon those poore people which might still haue remained in their old barbarous ignorance without knowledge of their owne misery or of Gods infinite goodnesse and mercy if it had not pleased God thus gratiously both to draw vs thither with desire of such wealth as those fruitfull Countries afford and also to grant vs so easie certaine and safe a meanes to goe vnto them which passage is in mine opinion made much more secure and easie by the commodious harbours and refreshing which VIRGINIA doth reach out vnto vs. The coasts of Florida to the West being not so harborous and of New England to the East somewhat more out of the way amongst so many Flats and small Ilands not so safe Neither is the commodiousnesse of VIRGINIAS situation onely in respect of this west Atlanticke Ocean but also in respect of the Indian Ocean which wee commonly call the South Sea which lyeth on the West and North west side of VIRGINIA on the other side of the Mountains beyond our Fals and openeth a free and faire passage not onely to China Iapan and the Moluccaes but also to New Spaine Peru Chila and those rich Countries of Terra Australis not as yet fully discouered For the Sea wherein Master Hudson did winter which was first discouered by him and is therefore now called Fretum Hudson doth stretch so farre towards the west that it lieth as farre westward as the Cape of Florida So that from the Fals aboue Henrico City if we shape our iourney towards the Northwest following the Riuers towards the head we shall vndoubtedly come to the Mountaines which as they send diuers great Riuers Southward into our Bay of Chesepiock so likewise doe they send others from their further side Northwestward into that Bay where Hudson did winter For so wee see in our owne Country from the ridge of Mountaines continued from Derbishire into Scotland doe issue many great Riuers on both sides into the East Germane Ocean and into the Westerne Irish Seas in like sort from the Alpes of Switzerland and the Grizons do runne the Danubie Eastward into Pontus Euxinus the Rhene into the North Germane Ocean the Rhosne west into the Mediterrane Sea and the Po South into the Adriatike Sea This Bay where Hudson did winter strecheth it selfe Southward into 49. degrees and cannot be in probability so farre distant from the Fals as 200. Leagues part of the way lying by the Riuers side towards the mountaines from whence it springeth and the other part on the other side cannot want Riuers likewise which will conduct vs all the way and I hope carry vs and our prouisions a good part of it Besides that Bay it is not vnlikely that the Westerne Sea in some other Creeke or Riuer commeth much neerer then that place For the place where Sir Thomas Button did winter lying more Westerly then Master Hudsons Bay by 190. Leagues in the same Sea doth extend it selfe very neere as farre towards the west as the Cape of California which is now found to be an Iland stretching it selfe from 22. degrees to 42. and lying almost directly North South as may appeare in a Map of that Iland which I haue seene here in London brought out of Holland where the Sea vpon the Northwest part may very probably come much nearer then some do imagine who giuing too much credit to our vsuall Globes and Maps doe dreame of a large Continent extending it selfe farre Westward to the imagined Straight of Anian where are seated as they fable the large Kingdomes of Cebola and Quiuira hauing great and populous Cities of ciuill people whose houses are said to bee fiue stories high and to haue some pillars of Turguesses Which relations are cunningly set downe by some vpon set purpose to put vs out of the right way and to discourage such as otherwise might bee desirous to search a passage by the way aforesaid into those Seas Gerardus Mercator a very industrious and excellent Geographer was abused by a Map sent vnto him of foure Euripi meeting about the North Pole which now are found to be all turned into a maine icie Sea One demonstration of the crafty falshood of these vsuall Maps is this that Cape Mendocino is set in them West Northwest distant from the South Cape of California about seuenteene hundred Leagues whereas Francis Gaule that was imployed in those discoueries by the Viseroy of New Spaine doth in Hugo Linscotten his booke set downe their distance to bee onely fiue hundred Leagues Besides this in the place where Sir Thomas Button did winter in 57. degrees of latitude the constant great tides euery twelue houres and the increase of those tides whensoeuer any strong westerne wind did blow doe strongly perswade vs that the maine Westerne Ocean is not farre from thence which was much confirmed vnto them the Summer following when sayling directly North from that place where they wintered about the Latitude of 60. degrees they were crossed by a strong Currant running sometimes Eastward sometimes Westward So that if wee finde either Hudsons Bay or any Sea more neere vnto the West wee may assure our selues that from thence wee may with great ease passe to any part of the East Indies And that as the world is very much beholding to that famous Columbus for that hee first discouered vnto vs the West Indies and to the Portingall for the finding out the ordinary and as yet the best way that is knowne to the East Indies by Cape Bona-Speranza So may they and all the world be in this beholding to vs in opening a new and large passage both much nearer safer and farre more wholesome and temperate through the Continent of VIRGINIA and by Fretum Hudson to all those rich Countries bordering vpon the South Sea in the East and West Indies And