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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A28392	A Description of the island of Jamaica with the other isles and territories in America, to which the English are related ... : taken from the notes of Sr. Thomas Linch, Knight, governour of Jamaica, and other experienced persons in the said places : illustrated with maps / published by Richard Blome.	Blome, Richard, d. 1705.; Lynch, Thomas, Sir, d. 1684?	1672 (1672)	Wing B3208; ESTC R7437	42,330	208

A DESCRIPTION Of the ISLAND of JAMAICA With the other Isles and Territories in AMERICA to which the English are Related viz. Barbadoes St. Christophers Nievis or Mevis Antego St. Vincent Dominica Montserrat Anguilla Barbada Bermudes Carolina Virginia Maryland New-York New England New-Found-Land Taken from the Notes of Sr. Thomas Linch Knight Governour of Jamaica and other Experienced Persons in the said Places Illustrated with Maps Published by Richard Blome LONDON Printed by T. Milbourn and sold by the Book-sellers of London and Westminster 1672. TO HIS SACRED MAJESTY CHARLES II. King of England Scotland France and Ireland c. Dread Soveraign THIS small Treatise or Description of Your Majesties Dominions and Territories in America humbly presents its self unto Your Royal Patronage by the hands of Your MAJESTIES most humble and obedient Subject and Servant Richard Blome THE PREFACE TO THE READER HAving the Favour of some Notes from my Honoured Friend Sir Thomas Linch Knight about the Description of the Island of Jamaica whose Worth and Ingenuity hath lately merited from his Majesty the Government of the said Isle as likewise the opportunity of several Papers relating to the Affairs and Description of the other Isles and Territories in America wherein the English are concerned which I received from the hands of several of my Friends who are related thereunto I thought them very fit to be Published The said Notes and Papers I have digested into a clearer and more compendious Method being brief Descriptions thereof which this small Treatise only aimeth at and not to trouble the Reader with large and unnecessary discourses no ways proper for the Design in hand for by that means I might by the help of a large Print which some Publisher of Books call Ornamental have put them to an unnecessary charge in Buying and as great a trouble in Reading I have also added some Maps for the more utility thereof which were taken from the Latest Surveys Rich. Blome Errata In Page 126. Line 8. the word not to be omitted A NEW SURVEY OR Description of the Island of JAMAICA THe Island of Jamaica lyeth betwixt the Tropicks in the 17. and 18. Degrees of Northern Latitude and beareth from off the Island of Hispaniola Eastward about 35. Leagues From the Island of Cuba Northwards about 20. Leagues From Porto Bello Southwards about 160. Leagues From Carthagena South-easterly about 140. Leagues From Rio de la Hache in the Continent South-easterly 160. Leagues The forme and Extent of the Isle It is something inclined to an Oval Forme being from East to West 170 Miles in length and from North to South in the midst where it is broadest about 70 it waxing narrower and narrower at both extream ends From East to West along the the midst of the Isle runns a continued Ridge of lofty Mount●ins which are full of fresh Springs whence flow the many Rivers that so plentifully waters the Island to the great refreshment and accommodation of the Inhabitants The Soyle Fertility c. It is in most parts especially the north of a rich and fat Soyle being of a blackish Earth in many places mixt with a Clay and in some as the south West Parts it is of a more red and loose Earth but every where incomparable apt to produce and liberally to answer the Cultivators cost and paines for what is planted being alwayes Springing and its Trees and Plants never disrobed of their summer Livery every month being to them as our May or April Here are many Savanas which are intermixed with the Hills and Woods especially in the North and South parts where are great store of wild Cattel which by report were sometimes Feilds of Indian Maiz or Wheat which when the Spaniards became Masters of the Isle they converted to Pasture for the feeding of their Cattel bringing hither from Spain Horses Cowes Hoggs and Asenegros for a Breed after they had destroyed all the Natives or Indians which according to calculation did amount to about 60000. which Cattel did exceedingly encrease witness the great heards of Horses and other Cattel that are now wild in the Woods besides the great quantities of Cows that have been Killed by the English since they became Masters thereof And these Savanas are the most barren as being so long made use of without Tillage yet doth they produce such great Plenty of Grass that the English are constrained oft-times to burn it up The Air and Temperature The Air is here more temperate then in any of the Caribbee Isles as seated more Northerly and of as mild a temperature as to Heate as any place between the Tropicks being always cooled with fresh Breezes that constantly bow easterly and refreshed with frequent Showers of Rain and such Dews that fall in the night much quickning the growth of what is Planted that it may truly be called temperate and healthful and by reason of its continuall Verdure as I have before noted exceeding Delightful And it is observed that the west and east Parts of the Isle are most subject to Raine and Windes and the Woods being also thick and close rendreth the Aire less agreeable then the North and South Parts which are more plain and open and less subject to Raine and Winds The Mountaines which run along the midle of the Isle from one extreame point to the other are much Cooler then the other parts insomuch that oft times in the mornings there is small white Frosts This Island is in no parts troubled with those storms of Wind called Huricanes which all the Caribbee Isles are much pestered with having somtimes by the violence of those Gusts their Ships forced out of their Roads and on Shore their Houses blown down and provisions c. rooted out of the Earth The Weather The Weather of this Isle is less certain then in the rest of the Caribbee Islands the most observable wett seasons are in November or May there being no seemable Winter but by a little more Rain and Thunder in the winter months The winds here constantly blow all the day from nine in the morning easterly and become more fresher as the Sun mounteth higher by reason of which at midd-day Travel or Labour is sufferable But from eight at Night to about eight in the Morning it frequently blows Westerly and with these Winds or Breezes the Vessells get out of the Harbours and ply to wind-ward There is scarce any sencible lengthning or shortning of the Days or Nights but are almost alwayes of an equal length The Sea ebbs and flowes seldome above a foot Hurricanes are here never known as before I have noted nor hath any Vessel been lost or cast away on the Coast since the English were Masters of it The Commodities which this Island Produceth This Isle hath and produceth many excellent Commodities and that in exceeding great Plenty as Sugars so good that they out-sell those of the Barbadoes 5. s. per Cent. there being at