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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

hath three great Kingdomes The first and principal is the Kingdome of New-Spain The second is the Kingdome of Galisia The third the Kingdome of Gutemalia and the Province of Varagua that adjoyneth to the Straight of Darian and is properly of the Council of Panama The Kingdome of Spain hath in it a Viceroy and Council intituled the Viceroy of Mexico And within his Government the Province and Bishoprick of Mexico that of Tlascala Guaxa●…a Mechoachan Chiapa Yucatan and Panuco The Indians of this Kingdome are of two sorts the Chickamecans which are a sort of Rogues that live much after the manner of Toriges or ancient Irish by robbing and spoiling Passengers on the way Towns and Villages and the other live even as decently as the Spaniard and are of all Trades and Vocations as they are of sharp wits and of great agility of body as appeareth by their extraordinary feats of Activity on the Rope and tumblings This Kingdome is a high Country for the most part of it and for riches pleasantness and wholesomeness accounted one of the best in the world as lacking nothing naturally that is to be had excepting Wine and Oil which they might also have but that it is forbidden to plant Vineyards or Oliveyards by the King of Spain and it hath divers things not elsewhere to be had both of Trees Herbs and Drugs New-Galicia THis Kingdome of New Galicia hath no Viceroy but is governed by a Council whose bounds is parted from New Spain at the Port of Nativity on the South Sea to the North North-west and North-east It hath no bounds but may inlarge their Territories as they see occasion on the Indians It hath already these Provinces The first Guadalaica Xalisco Sacaticas Chiamerla Culiacan New-Biscai and Sivaloa And this Kingdome is not much inferiour to New Spain and it hath the same sort of Indians Gutamalia This Kingdome of Gutamalia is governed as the other by a Council without a Viceroy and is the Southwardliest Region of this North America and hath within its bounds the Provinces of Gutamalia from whence the Kingdome taketh name Soconusco Chiapa Suchi●…epoque Verapas Honduaras and Cacos Saint Saviour and Saint Michael Nievaraqua Chuluteca Taquesgalpa and Costarica or the rich Coast. The Indians here are more warlike than the rest and have more unwillingly submitted to the Spanish Yoke and therefore they have had almost continual wars the most of the Indians living till very lately after the manner of the Chickamecians though many of them are docible as the Indians of Mexico This is a rich wholsome Kingdome not inferiour to Galicia but rather exceeds it But when I come to each particular Province I shall name them as they adjoyn on the Coast of the Sea Panuco is a Province near adjoyning to Florida and parted from it by the River of Palms which lyeth in 28 degrees of North Latitude That part of it that lyeth next to Mexico is the best and hath the greatest plenty of Victuals with some gold the other side which is next Florida is poor and barren The next to Panuco on the Coast of the North Sea lyeth the Province of Talascalia or Losangels It hath abundance of Flax Wheat Sugar and Ginger diversity of herbs and fruits abundance of Cattel Hogs and Horses many silver mines 200 chief Indian Towns and at least 40 Monasteries of Friers Youcatan The North part of this Province adjoyneth to the South of Talascalia It is a peninsula and in compasse 150 Leagues The temperature is hot and moist it hath no Rivers but is full of good willows It is a woody country nor will it bear English grain neither hath it gold or other mineral The Province of Honduras adjoineth unto the South part of Youcatan this coast stretcheth along the north Sea as far as Nicaragua which is near 150 leagues It is a hilly Countrey plentiful of all sorts of Cattel and store of Wheat and Mines of Gold and Silver Nicaragua lyeth next to the South-side of Honduras it is a plentiful Countrey of Coco Cotten-Wool Millet Cattel and much gold It hath five Spanish Towns and abundance of peaceable Indians which are most expert in the Spanish tongue The Province of Costarica lyeth between Nickuragua and Caragua between which it hath 90 Leagues in length It is a good Land and very fruitful in Millet Wheat Flax and Sugar plenty of Mines both of Gold and Silver and it hath two Spanish Towns The Province of Varagua lyeth between Costarica and Panama adjoyning on the South part to the Straight of Dariana The northerliest is in eleven degrees it hath East and West 50 leagues and in breadth 25 and is washed as Costarica with the north and south seas It is a Mountainous Country full of bushes without Pasture or Cattel Wheat or Barley but it hath some Millet and is full of rich Mines of Gold The Indians are few and they be in continual wars with the Spaniards And at the end of this Varagua beginneth the southern America And therefore I shall return back to the other parts of this north America which is not yet discovered The Province of Cibloa is the most northerly Province that the Spaniards possess in America It hath but one Spanish Town Here are store of all sorts of our Cattel and the Ox of the Countrey which hath a bunch of Flesh on his back of the bignesse of a mans head and his hair is shaggy and long his horns smaller then our Kines horns but his body much bigger this is an Inland Province and lyeth from the Sea many Leagues The Province of New-Biskay lyeth on the south-west of Cibloa it hath store of Provision and Cattel and divers Mines of Silver It hath two fair Spanish Towns that is to say Sancta Barbola and the Baro of Saint Iohn with divers peaceable Indians It is an Inland Province but of much Commerce by reason of the silver Mines The Province of Chiamerla lyeth in more than two and twenty degrees of hight It is ten Leagues broad and something more in length it lyeth along the south Sea but hath no Ports of name The Province of Guliacan is the most northerly Province the Spaniards possesse on the Coast of the south Sea It lyeth west of Chiamerla there are much Cattel Seeds and Fruits of England Sacetas lyeth south-east from Biscay It is very wholesome in some parts of it and as sickly and unwholesome in other parts which causes that in some places there is much want and in other places as much plenty But to amend all defects there are in most places rich silver Mines The Province of Xalisco hath the City of Compostella near the south Sea in one and twenty degrees nineteen Minutes there is the Village of the Purification south-west from Gudalaria thirty leagues this land is hot and sickly but hath Mines of Gold and Silver good store of provisions and excellent Horses that are well bred for any service Guadalaira is the best