Selected quad for the lemma: city_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
city_n	great_a	part_n	town_n	5,791	4	6.1013	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63507	A true description of Jamaica with the fertility, commodities, and healthfulness of the place. As also the towns, havens, creeks, promontories, and the circuit of the whole island.		1657 (1657)	Wing T2675; ESTC R219384	1,828	8

A True DESCRIPTION OF JAMAICA With the Fertility Commodities and Healthfulness of the place As also The Towns Havens Creeks Promontories and the Circuit of the whole Island LONDON Printed by J. M. 1657. A True DESCRIPTION OF JAMAICA With the Fertility Commodities and Healthfulness of the Place THis Island is scituated West from Hispaniola South from Cuba which Columbus heretofore called the Isle of St. Iames but it s now better known by the name of Iamaica The eighteenth Degree of Northern Latitude cuts the middle of it It is of equal distance from the two former great Islands viz. twenty Leagues from each The compass or circuit of the Island is an hundred and fifty leagues its length from East to West is fifty leagues the bredth is twenty or better This Island excels the others for the goodness both of the Ayr and bounty of the soyl it is for the most part a plain and even Country yeilding in great abundance whatsoever is necessary for mans life It breeds and nourishes very great store of Horses Bulls Cows and Hogs The Yucam whereof Cassavi is made is so plenteous as that this Island and most deservedly may be reckoned the Granary of the rest of the Islands Cotton-wool grows very frequently up and down the Island which makes it to excel most in clothing also whatever fruits God and Nature have planted from the beginning or have by the industry and diligence of man been transplanted thither from any other part do thrive in this Land wonderfully The Spaniards when first they arrived here found the Island very well furnished with barbarous people which since are strangely decreased partly through the cruelty of their Lords partly by reason of their own sloth and idleness The Towns here considering the bravery and goodness of the Island are but few in number at this day not above three the chief of which is Sevil upon the North side of the Island not far from the Sea Here was an Abbaty whereof Peter Martyr that famous Writer of the Indian affairs was somtimes Abbot The next Town to this at an eleven Leagues distance Eastward stands Melilla famous for Columbus his Shipwrack when in a tempestuous passage that he had from Veragua he would so gladly have put in thither The third Town is Oristan upon the west side of the Island fourteen Leagues from Sevil But of the City de la Vega whence the Columbi had the Title of their Dukedom there is scarce at this time any memorial or remembrance A great part of this Island with the chief City of it was subdued in the year 1596 by Sir Anthony Sherley The Sea shore where it most vergeth and bendeth it self toward the East hath the high Promontory Moranta upon it from which the said shore goes back by little and little toward the Southwest taking in the Sea in certain Creeks then it goes directly forward toward the West so far as to the Promontory de Falcon whence it turns to the westward till it come to the Promontory del Negrillo which lies outmost to the West from thence again the shore turns in towards the East In the Northern quarter of it it hath many Stations and Ports the chief of which lies nigh to Sevil the next to Melilla ten leagues from the former to the Eastward the third Ianta a like distance off ten leagues from the former and as many from the Promontory of Moranta towards the west In short this Island for the richness and goodness of the soyl for the pleasantness of its woods and the abundance of all good things may very well contend with any other of the American Islands whatever and in this respect excels them that it hath so convenient and advantagious a scituation between the greater Islands and the Western Continent of America So as if our Countrymen would but raise up their dull spirits and seriously set themselves to plant there they would not only exceedingly advance the Publique Interest and benefit their Native Country but very much advantage and enrich themselves their children and posterity there being no Adventure or Merchandize in any part of the world undertaken as yet by the English that is like to be of less hazard and more certain profit as evidently appears in that he that first discovered these Countries and best knew to make his choice was only a Suitor for this Island and when afterward he was asked by the Portugal why he did not cause the mines there to be wrought he made answer They would first go farther off and when they had wrought out those they would return thither being a place nearer home and of great security I need not inform you of the great variety of Fish and Fowl nor the healthfulness of the place when a man hath some little time been acquainted with the Ayr. And so my Countrymen wishing such noble thoughts to possess your souls as may encline you to some gallant endeavour and undertaking herein that after times may say this active Age hath not consin'd us to one poor corner of the earth but stirr'd us up to look upon that which the negligence of our Ancestors did cause them so unhappily to foreslow and forsake I recommend you to the direction and Assistance of the Almighty FINIS