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A66359	Virgo triumphans, or, Virginia in generall, but the south part therof in particular including the fertile Carolana, and the no lesse excellent island of Roanoak, richly and experimentally valued : humbly presented as the auspice of a beginning yeare, to the Parliament of England, and councell of state / by Edward Williams, Gent.	Williams, Edward, fl. 1650.; Ferrar, John, d. 1657.	1650 (1650)	Wing W2660; ESTC R23293	44,964	64

intended● that excellent Country had not hung downe its desolate head in so languishing a condition as the disr●spect cast upon her till of late yeares had reduced her to Nor had the poore Planter who usually spends all the profits of his labour in forraigne Wines been impoverished by the want of it but with delight might have shaded himselfe under his vine reaped the benefit of it in Autumne and buried all the memory and sense of his past labours in a cheerfull rejoycing by his owne harth with the issue of his owne vineyard And from hence might Barbadoes St. Christophers and all our Islands in the Indies have richer better and by much cheaper wines transported to them from a place much neerer in distance then Spain or the Canaries and which doubles the benefit such intercourse together would draw them to an association in power as well as communication of Staples Were this brought to a just perfection no other Nation could upon a quarrell betwixt Us and Spaine and France reape a benefit by selling us their Wine at a third Market And what wee vend now for it that being made Native to us might be returned in Bullion to the apparent enriching of the Common-wealth and the impoverishing of our Enemies or at the least Friends deservedly suspected All Authours of Agriculture unanimously consent that neither Arable Pasture Meadow or any other Grounds are so benigne genuine or proper for planting Vines in as those cleared Lands are wherein not Shrubs but Tall Trees were standing And wee must want a parallell in any part of the World to compare with Virginia for tall and goodly Timber-trees cleared of all under Woods to which when cleared your Vines may be remov●d the very removeall of them as indeed of all other giving an addition to their perfection the excellency of transplantation being more particularly insisted upon heereafter But in the clearing of these woods it will be a saving of labour and a delight to the Vine besides other profits following to leave the Mulberry trees standing there being such a happy correspondence together such a mutuall love ingrafted in them by Nature that wee well may conclude with this Axiome that the same Nature joynes all her excellencies together by an association of simpathies Nor does she wave that her happy order in Incomparable Virginia where the soile and climate that fits the one is equally amiable to the other their loves and hates happily according what the one shunnes the other flies from what the one affects challenges the others embraces and were not this soile and climate most geniall and proper Nature her selfe whose production● are never uselesse would never have crowned the Virgin Brow of this unexampled Countrey with such a universall plenty of them or with such a voluntary League have united them every where together VIRGINIA compared to PERSIA BUT to illustrate this with another argument Let us compare this felicity-teeming Virginia as it is scituated from 31 degrees of Latitude to 40● with other Countries ●eated in the same degrees which opens us a method of observing what Commodities Nations so planted abound with which found wee shall discover in this excellent Virgin a disposition ingrafted by Nature to be Mother of all those excellencies and to be equall if not superio● as well in all their noble Staples as in nea●enesse to their particular enricher the perpetually auspicious Sunne And this to whom Virginia owes the publication and po●tract of her incomparable beauty Mr. Harri●t the noble Mathematician delivers us by a happy instance in finding out for her ● noble Sister of the same Latitude the most glorious Persia innobled as much by thi● comparison as in her Empire And those who have travelled and viewed Persia unanimously relate wonders of her admirable fertility in all sorts of Graine and Fruits with an unexpressible abund●nce of Silke and Wines In which this her rich-bosomed Sister claimes an equality in her plenty of Mulberries Silke and Gums Vines Maiz Rice and all sorts of Graine onely as a fuller-dowryed Sister she merits a priority in fertility pleasure health and temperature a Virgin Countrey so preserved by Nature out of a desire to show mankinde fallen into the Old age of the Creation what a brow of fertili●y and beauty she was adorned with when the World was vigorous and youthfull and she her selfe was unwounded with the Plough-shares and unweakened by her numerous futur● teemings Another eye●witnesse of this Victorious Empire delivers to memory that Go●●●●● in a Province of that Countrey is so incomparably fruitfull that Dearths are never knowne nor Famine ever suspected in it● th●t in one onely City called E●y● there is such an inestimable store of Silke that there might be bought in one day in that City as much Silke as will lode three thousand Camells And he is little conversant with experience or History who is ignorant that the abundance of Silke Native to that Countrey and Climate is almost the sole Staple of that mighty Empire by which never tobe exhausted Treasure of Silkes the sinewes and vitalls of the Persian Empire the Sophy to the generall good of Christendome keepes both the hornes of the Ottoman Moone from compleating their ambitious Circle And if the English East-India Company of Merchants were not wrong-byassed by the factions and sinister ambition of some men in Authority amongst them a great part of that wealthy Staple might be transported into England and by that meanes dispersed over all parts of Europe to the enriching and honour of this Nation The digression upon this Parallell hath diverted me from ampliation upon the publick benefit which may devolve into this republick by the Olive which being genuine to the Vine will by a happy consent of nature indisputably flourish in a vast abundance and by a transportation into the warmer Regions where the heate or scarcity of Cattle causeth a like indigence of Butter will be a Staple of inestimable value and of no smaller conducement to our owne shipping into those provinces neere the Equinox or in those voyages where the doubling of the Line either putrifies or makes it of a taste little pleasing or agreeable to the palate VIRGINIA compared to CHINA BUt to leave Persia and descend to a more wealthy and powerful parallell the richest and mightiest Empire in the World lies in the same latitude and climate with our fortunate Virginia namely China divided from it only by the Southsea and which will bee a part of another discourse not of any long distance from it agreeing with it in multitude of Staples China is stored with an infinite number of Mulberry trees to feede Silkewormes with and vends silke in such a vast proportion that in one onely City Lempo which some call Liempo the Portugeses have with no small admiration observed that one hundred and sixty thousand pound weight of silk hath beene caried out in one Shippe in the onely space of three Moneths Into Camb●la the chiefe City of

Tartary as Authors of great repute and credit and one who was personally there reports there comes ●very day from China a thousand waggons laden with silke Nor is China lesse happy in its multitude of navigable Rivers in its wonderfull fertility of all sorts of graine Maiz Rice c. of which it receiveth every yeere three or fo●re most plentifull Harvests Rivers stored with an incredible quantity of Fish and Fowle enriched a●d ennobled with numerous Mines of Gold Silver Brasse Iron and other Mettalls Quicksilver Nitre All●m Pretious stones P●arles Muske Cotton Sugars Rubarb China Root vast proportions of Flax Furres extraordinary rich To this happinesse of soile and situation they associate an equall felicity of parts and industry by which they pretermit not one span of ground which they assign not to particular and profitable uses and by an ingenious division of the ground according to the quality of the soyle designe the drier part for wheat and barly That which is more visited with an improving moysture to Rice and Sug●r Ascents and Mountaines to grov●s of Pines and Chestnuts betweene which are planted Maiz Panicle and all kinde of Pulse In other proper places are Mulberry Groves Gardens● Orchards Flax and in a word no spot of ground misimployed from its proper advantage And that Virginia is parallell in neerenesse of Staples as well as neighbourhood to the sunne to that celebrated Empire what multitudes of Fish to satisfie the most voluptuous of wishes can China glory in which Virginia may not in justice boast of What Fowles can she make ostentation of in which Virginia can be esteemed inferiour Can China insolent with her prosperity solely lay clayme to a more singular honour for her affluence in Maiz and other grain for the maintenance and luxury of her plenty-wanton Inhabitants without an open injury to her equall to her Mayden sister to our incomparable Virginia Are her Mulberries springing from a voluntary bounty of Nature lesse numerous or usefull then those to which China hath added all the assistance which could be expected from advantages of transplantation or an industrious people If China will descend to particulars to compare Quantity and Quality of Fish and Fowle Let her shew us Turkies of 50 pound weight Let her instance an example of one hundred and fifty Fowle to reward the labour of three charges of shot and powder Let her publish a president so worthy of admiration and which will not admit beliefe in those bosomes where the eye cannot be witnesse of the action of five thousand fish taken at one draught neere Cape Charls at the entry into Ches●peak Bay and which swells the wonder greater not one fish under the measure of two feet in length What Fleets come yeerely upon the coasts of New found Land and New England for Fish with an incredible returne Yet t is a most assured truth that if they would make experiment upon the South of Cape Cod and from thence to the coast of this happy Countrey they would find Fish of a greater delicacy and as full handed plenty which though Foraigners know not yet if our owne Planters would make use of it would yield them a Revenue which cannot admit of any diminution whilest there are Ebbes and Flouds Rivers feed and receive the Ocean or Nature fayles in the Elementall Originall of all things Waters There wants nothing but industrious spirits and incouragement to make a rich Staple of this commodity and would the Virginians but make Salt pits in which they have a greater convenience of Tides that part of the Universe by reason of a full influence of the Moone upon the almost limitlesse Atlantick causing the most sp●cious Fluxes and Refluxes that any shore of the other divisions in the World is sensible of to leave their pits full of Salt-water and more friendly and warme Sunbeames to concoct it into Salt then Rochel or any parts of Europe Yet notwithstanding these advantages which prefer Virginia before Rochel the French King rayses a large proportion of his Revenues out of that St●ple yearly with which he supplyes a great part of Christendome And if from this Staple the miserable French can procure a subsistence some of them a comfortable livelyhood notwithstanding all the private oppressions of their grinding Landlords the Publick Tallies Subsidies Aides Imposts and other hard Titles of authorized Rapine What shall wee imagine the freeborne English in a Countrey where he owes no Rent to any but to God and Nature where he has Land to satisfie his desires in its extent his wishes in its fertility where free-quarter is a word onely understood by Report may expect of profit and content both in this Staple of Salt in that of Wines made in those Countries where either the Spanish insolence and exactions the French extortions or the Turkish Imperiall Robberies though in the highest degrees of exorbitance are not of force so to disincourage the Inhabitants from attendance upon the Vineyard which notwithstanding all those Horse-leach●● of Imposition returnes them such a profit as make them keepe ● middle path betweene the ●scent of Riches and precipice of Poverty Nor would it be such a long intervall Salt being first made betwixt the undertaking of this Fishing and the bringing it to perfection for if every servant were enjoyned to practise Rowing to be taught to handle Sailes and trimme a Vessell a worke easily practised and suddainely learned the pleasantnesse of Weather in fishing season the delicacy of the Fish of which they usually feede themselves with the best the encouragement of some share in the profit and their understanding what their owne benefit may bee when their freedome gives them an equallity will make them willing and able Fisher-men and Seamen To adde further to this if wee consider the abundance largenesse and peculiar excellency of the S●urgeon in that Countrey it will not fall into the least of scruples but that one species will bee of an invaluable profit to the buyer or if wee repeate to our thoughts the singular plenty of Herrings and Mackarell in goodnesse and greatnesse much exceeding what ever of that kinde these our Seas produce a very ordinary understanding may at the first inspection perceive that it will be no great difficulty to out-labour and out-vye the Hollander in that his almost onely Staple Which wee may also sell at a cheaper Market then in common estimation if wee revolve the Salt to be our owne which they buy from France or fetch from the Isle of May and that the very fraight of Passengers of which allured by this improvement and the publick approbation there will be constant multitudes in our owne Shippes will at the least defray 3 fourths of the charges I should not unwillingly heare though I dispaire ever to know it for a certainety that China did exceede us in fishing for were it granted wee should not imagine those wa●ry Inhabitants so circumscribed and limited to one part of the Ocean especially