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A41246	Cosmography or, a description of the whole world represented (by a more exact and certain discovery) in the excellencies of its scituation, commodities, inhabitants, and history: of their particular and distinct governments, religions, arms, and degrees of honour used amongst them. Enlarged with very many and rare additions. Very delightful to be read in so small a volum. By Robert Fage Esquire.	Fage, Robert.	1667 (1667)	Wing F82A; ESTC R222645	75,258	176

their resolutions During their abode here they found in one entire Lump among the crevises of the Rocks a piece of Ambergreece the greatest yet found weighing 80 l. with other small crumbles This with much adoe was secured for the Company of these Sumer-Islands who to the number of one hundred and twenty had purchased a Patent for the said Isle whom the News of the Ambergreece much augmented The first Governour was Mr. More he departing there was a monthly succession of six till one should come from England which was Captain Daniel Tucker in the mean time the Fortifications were finished and the Isle secured from any attempt of the Spaniard in whose time happened that memorable Voyage of five Persons Viz. Richard Sanders William Godwin a Ship-Carpenter Thomas Harrison a Joyner Iames Barker a Gentleman and Henry Puet who making a Boat under pretence for Fishing being hardly used and not suffered to depart in the Ships by the assistance of a Compass unknown to any person till they were gone set to Sea having provided themselves of Victuals and by a direct Course the wind favouring them in five weeks time though a Pyrat to whom they sailed hoping to be taken in took away from them their Compass and other necessary implements arrived in Ireland where the Earl of Thomond honourably received them and hung up their Vessel for a Monument It is now divided into eight Tribes each Tribe having in it 50. Shares of which there are some for their publike charge The names of the Tribes are Sandys Southampton Warwick Paget Pembroke Cavendish Smith Hamilton formerly Bedford And thus much for Bermuda's The Swedes Plantation The Swedes are seated between the Dutch and Virginia in a Village by a Fort which lyeth eight miles within the River of Delaware in Virginia on the northside of the River they are few in number and their principle business is their Commerce with the Indians for they have little or no Cattle they furnish the Indians with Guns and weapons as the Dutch do and once in a year are supplyed by a ship or two from Swethland that fetch away their Merchandise Mary-Land This Province is divided from Virginia by the great River Patomuck it lyeth on the North side of the great River and the west side of the great Virginia Bay it is more wholesome then the parts of Virginia and seated better for the English grain It is now better peopled than formerly the Inhabitants being Papists and Protestants a like countenanced the propriety by Patent is vested in the Lord Baltimore a Catholick New-Holland To the South-west of New-England lyeth the Dutch Plantation it hath good ground and good air but few of that Nation inhabiting there which maketh that there are few Plantations in the Land they chiefly intending their East-India Trade and but one Village whose Inhatants are part English and part Dutch Here hath been no news or any matter of War or State since the first Settlement There is the Port Orange thirty miles up Hudsons River they are mischievous neighbours to the English for according to the European Mode they sell Guns and Ammunition to the Common Enemy the Indians New-England This Plantation was first undertaken in the year 1606. by Patent from King Iames to several Merchants of London and the West-Countries with a special Inhibition not to plant within 100 miles of the former Colony of Virginia but never took effect till 1622 or thereabouts after many losses and discouragements of several adventures At last Sir Francis Popham had the Happinesse and Fortune to establish it though with much hazzard and difficulty by the Treachery of the Indians and the unproportionablenesse of the after-Supplies The Plantation beginneth about 44. degrees and is indifferently peopled with English as Southwardly at 41. At this day it hath three Divisions the North the middle and the South In the middle is Boston the best Seat and best inhabited the South is the Government of New-Plimouth Boston hath a Street neer half a mile long full of Merchand●…ze Here is Resident a Council and a Governour which is yearly chosen and accommodated with a very good Port and Castle furnished with Men and Ammunition Near Boston lyeth Charles-Town and five miles into the Countrey is Cambridge an University of Nonconformists to the Church of England This Country having alwayes been the Receptacle of such religious Male-contents The Land of all this Region is generally barren and rocky the Commodities are these ensuing Pipe-staves Clabboard Fish English Grain and Fruits and Iron works with these they drive a Trade to most parts of Europe especially to Spain the Canaries and Chariby Islands They are at present very numerous and deserve their Name except their diversity in Religion which hath made them disgustful to old England Near adjoyning to this Colony the French have a Plantation called Canada or Nova Francia not worth the mentioning save for some bickerings that have lately happened betwixt us and them concerning limits wherein we have been successful driving them out of some Forts they unjustly possessed New-found-land This is the most Septentrional land of America but there is a straight of Sea not yet throughly discovered called Hudsons Straight by which the North-west passage was concluded feasible the Lands adjoyning being called Nova Brittannia or Nova Franmurcia This Island stretcheth North and South from 46. degrees and a half to 50. and a half Latitude The Natives of this place are few and Savage The Commodity thereof is Fish which is mostly Poor Iohn traded for in great quantity by French Biscayners and English chiefly of the West Country who for the profit hereof endure the Winter cold and Summer heat of the Climate amidst other very great difficulties This Island lyes at the mouth of the River Canada distant from the continent at the north end near half a League and the south-South-west point is about a League from Cape Britton Martins-Vineyard This is a small Island upon the Coast of New-England the Governour thereof being appointed by the Council of New-England It is 20. miles long and 10. miles broad there is great plenty of Fish in this Coast. On the south-Southwest of this Island lieth Long-Island in length 60. English miles and in breadth 15 inhabited by some English who for their Sectary opinions have been put from New-England They are claimed also by the Dutch but depend of nor pay duty to either As also there are divers other Islands more particularly Cape Hatrash a part of Island in 36 degrees from whence till you come to the point of St Helena which is in 32 degrees all the Coast along are broken Isles and uninhabited the best whereof is Roantke of 18 miles compasse The Islands of Lucahos or Bahama These Islands are Southwest from the Bermuda's and to the North of Portorico Hispaniola and Cuba the most emment is Lucayneque in 27 degrees There is likewise the Islands of Abacoa and Yuma of 12. and 20. Leagues in

24. degrees and a half Yuemela is in 23. degrees and a half 15. Leagues in Length and North from Hispaniola lyeth Samana 7. Leagues each way Between which two former lyeth Yalaque of 10 Leagues in 22 degrees and a half There are also three small Islands that make a Triangle The Islands of Magaquana Quaqua Makre and Alreo in 20 degrees not now inhated and never but once sailed to by the English with losse too although they go round them yearly St. Christophers Mevis and Montserat and Antego This Island is of Ten Leagues in length and seated by English and French each having a Governour of their own Nation so peopled by both that Ground can hardly be obtained The two Nations are so mixed in their plantations that no secret design upon one another can long be kept so They make some Sugar in this Island some India and Cotton Wool but most Tobacco Mevis is 5. Leagues in length lying within a League of St. Christophers Here is the best Sugar of the Chariby Islands some Indico but little Cotton or Tobacco in 17 degrees lye Barbada and Redanda in the hands of the Cannibals Montserat is inhabited most part by Irish within 5 Leagues of the Redanda planted with Tobacco and some Indico Antego lyeth between 14 and 15 degrees It hath good Air and is planted by the English with Tobacco Indico Cotton-Wool and Sugar The other Chariby Ilands are Magelante Dominica Martinina Santa Luca Guarde-Lupa Todos Santes Deseada inhabited by Caniballs French and Spaniards and Barbadoes or Barbudoes Barbadoes This is a Lee-Iland the Wind usually blowing one way It lyeth in 13 degrees 30 minutes inhabited all with English and Negroes their Servants to such a number that it hath more people and Commerce than all the Ilands of the Indies Their Principal Commodity is Sugar of the worst sort Indico very good Cotton and little Tobacco They buy and sell here and scarce any where else in English Plantations with pieces of 8. ready money Here are store of Cattel but Horses are the most wanting by reason of their great Draught and Trade from place to place It is the worst place either to live in or to make a Voyage or Return For what is here is as well in the rest of the Ilands and much more plenty for here they have too many people and in those there is too few and Grain more then enough It s strength in men makes that they have no fortification yet perfect the reason that induced my Lord Willoughby of Parham sent thither Governour for the King in 1651 upon an attempt of Sir George Ayscoughs sent thither by the Paliament to reduce those Ilands to their subjection who had then declared for the Royal Interest and proclaimed his present Majesty to land some force upon the Iland to hearken to a Capitulation and agreement and render it to him upon honourable Terms This Plantation is now ready to be deserted unless some expedient can be found for Wood or other Fuell to boyle their Sugar divers having already transplanted themselves to Surynam Iaimaica This Iland oweth its name to Columbus who in his first discovery of this part of the World landed here and seized it for the use of the King of Spain being sent out by him at the instance of his Wife Isabella with 15. Ships whose Dysasters it will be too tedious to relate It will suffice to say that for all his great Services he was at last imprisoned in these Countries and sent home in Chains from which he was by the favour of the King released and himself afterwards honoured with the Title of Duke de la Vega a City in this Iland he himself had so named which City is now in being After our unfortunate Defeat at Hispaniola in 1656. where a strange Consternation had seized upon the Spirits of the whole Army none daring to shew their Faces to the Enemy but Major General Hayns and three or four more with him who honourably fell in Fight with that Negro and Devil-like Molatto for lack of Provisions which would not have lasted the whole Army in their resailing to Windward to Barbadoes it was resolved the Fleet should steer for Iamaica which was accordingly effected and upon Landing Proclamation made that it should be present death for any man to turn his back to the Enemy They landed without opposition and while they were marching up the Country the crafty Spaniard the old pocky Governour by a Treaty and Presents so delayed the Motion of the Army that they conveyed away their incredible wealth and riches into the woods and other Coverts before it was possible to overtake them He himself remaining as Hostage for the performance of some idle Articles So the English were peaceably at present possest of the Country But not long after came a reinforcement from the Island of Cuba adjacent thereto Divers Spaniards and Molatto's still keeping in the Woods and annoying the English and fortified themselves at Rio Novo where though they were strongly entrenched and twice more in number the Souldiers were so earnest to regain their lost Honour being taunted to their hearing by the Enemy with St. Domingo and undervalued for that Cowardwice that they fell on with incredible Fury and Resolution and forced their Trenches and made them accept of very hard Conditions to depart with their Skins The like they did to other Spaniards who landed about the same time near Poynt Pedro so that there is little danger or expectation of another invasion the Spaniard having such proof of our recovered valour though the Island if it were less fruitful is worth the fighting for though it should cost the Spaniard his best blood for it lyeth within his bowels and in the heart of his Trade For all the Treasure that his Plate Fleet brings home from Cartagena steers directly for St. Domingo in Hispaniola and from thence must pass by one of the ends of this Island to recover the Havana the common rendezvouz of the whole Armado before it returns home through the Gulf of Florida Nor is there any other way whereby to misse the Island of Iamaica because he cannot in any reasonable time turn up to the wind-ward of Hispaniola the which though he might with difficulty perform yet he would thereby lose the security of his united strength which at the Havana from all parts of the Bay of Mexico New Spain and the riches from Nombre de Dios and the South Seas accompany each other home from the said Havana and yet notwithstanding the private English Men of War snap up the Straglers as they lie crusing upon the Coast of Iamaica being fifty Leagues East and West and North and South twenty It is seated between the Tropicks in seventeen and 18 degrees of Northern Latitude and therefore twice every year subjected to the perpendicular Beams of the Sun but proving as happy to the Complexions and Constitutions of English men as Virginia New-England