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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A25996	Carolina, or, A description of the present state of that country and the natural excellencies thereof viz. the healthfulness of the air, pleasantness of the place, advantage and usefulness of those rich commodities there plentifully abounding, which much encrease and flourish by the industry of the planters that daily enlarge that colony / published by T.A., Gent ...	Amy, Thomas.	1682 (1682)	Wing A3934aA; ESTC R31	14,528	46

CAROLINA OR A DESCRIPTION Of the PRESENT STATE of that COUNTRY AND The Natural Excellencies thereof viz. The Healthfulness of the Air Pleasantness of the Place Advantage and Usefulness of those Rich Commodities there plentifully abounding which much encrease and flourish by the Industry of the Planters that daily enlarge that Colony Published by T. A. Gent. Clerk on Board his Majesties Ship the Richmond which was sent out in the Year 1680. with particular Instructions to enquire into the State of that Country by His Majesties Special Command and Return'd this Present Year 1682. LONDON Printed for W. C. and to be Sold by Mrs. Grover in Pelican Court in Little Britain 1682. TO THE READER READER YOV may please to understand that the first Discovery of this Country was at the Charge of King Henry the the Seventh as you will find in this Book and that as it hath pleased God to add such a Jewel to the Crown of England so I doubt not but in a few years it will prove the most Beneficial to the Kingdom in General of any Colony yet Planted by the English which is the more probable from the great Concourse that daily arrives there From the other Plantations as well as from England Ireland c. being drawn and invited thither by the Healthfulness of Air Delicacy of Fruits the likelyhood of Wines Oyls and Silks and the great Variety of other Natural Commodities within specified which well considered will sufficiently evidence the Truth of what I Assert that I may contribute what lies in my Power for a further Satisfaction to those Gentlemen that are curious concerning the Country of Carolina they may find a small Description thereof with a Map of the first Draught Published by Mr. Richard Blome and Printed for Dorman Newman in the Year 1678. in Octavo and one larger in Mr. Ogleby's America since the publishing of these there is by Order of the Lords Proprietors newly published in one large Sheet of Paper a very spacious Map of Carolina with its Rivers Harbors Plantations and other Accommodations from the latest Survey and best Informations with a large and particular Description of the Entrances into Ashley and Cooper Rivers this Map to be sold for 1 s. by Joel Gascoyne near Wapping Old Stairs and Robert Green in Budge Row London 1682. A COMPLEAT DISCOVERY OF THE State of Carolina In the YEAR 1682. THE Discourses of many Ingenious Travellers who have lately seen this part of the West Indies have for Salubrity of Air Fertility of Soyl for the Luxuriant and Indulgent Blessings of Nature justly rendred Carolina Famous That since my Arrival at London I have observed many with pleasing Idaeas and Contemplations as if ravisht with Admiration discourse of its Pleasures Whilst others more actively prest and stimulated have with vehement and ardent Desires willingly resolved to hazard their Lives Families and Fortunes to the Mercy of Wind Seas and Storms to enjoy the Sweets of so desirable a Being Having spent near three Years Abroad in which time I had a fair Opportunity of a Survey of great part of our English America You my Worthy Friend knowing in what Character I went abroad and understanding of my being at Carolina did obligingly request that at Leisure I would collect such Notices of my own whilst there with those Remarques and Observations which I had learnt from the most Able and Ingenious Planters who have had their Residence on the place from its first being Coloniz'd You desiring to be assured whether the true State of the Country did answer the Reports of Common Fame Which in Compliance with and in Obedience to your Commands I have undertaken Carolina derives her name either from our present Illustrious Monarch under whose glorious Auspices it was first establisht an English Colony in the Year One Thousand Six Hundred and Seventy and under whose benign and happy Influence it now prospers and flourishes Or from Charles the Ninth of that Name King of France in whose Reign a Colony of French Protestants were transported thither at the encouragement of Gaspar Coligni Admiral of that Kingdom the place of their first Settlement named in Honour of their Prince Arx Carolina but not long after that Colony with Monsieur Ribault their Leader were by the Spaniard at once cut off and destroy'd Since which nor French nor Spaniard have made any Attempt for its Re-Settlement Carolina is the Northermost part of the spacious and pleasant Province of Florida it lies in the Northern temperate Zone between the Latitude of Twenty Nine and Thirty Six Degrees and Thirty Minutes It 's bounded on the East with the Atlantick or Northern on the West with the Pacifick or Southern Ocean on the North with Virginia on the South with the remaining part of Florida The Air of so serene and excellent a temper that the Indian Natives prolong their days to the Extremity of Old Age. And where the English hitherto have found no Distempers either Epidemical or Mortal but what have had their Rise from Excess or Origine from Intemperance In July and August they have sometimes Touches of Agues and Fevers but not violent of short continuance and never Fatal English Children there born are commonly strong and lusty of sound Constitutions and fresh ruddy Complexions The Seasons are regularly disposed according to Natures Laws the Summer not so torrid hot and burning as that of their Southern nor the Winter so rigorously sharp and cold as that of their Northern Neighbours In the Evenings and Mornings of December and January thin congealed Ice with hoary Frosts sometimes appear but as soon as the Sun elevates her self above the Horizon as soon they disappear and vanish Snow having been seen but twice in ten Years or from its first being settled by the English The Soil near the Sea of a Mould Sandy farther distant more clayey or Sand and Clay mixt the Land lies upon a Level in fifty or sixty Miles round having scarce the least Hill or Eminency It 's cloathed with odoriferous and fragrant Woods flourishing in perpetual and constant Verdures viz. the lofty Pine the sweet smelling Cedar and Cyprus Trees of both which are composed goodly Boxes Chests Tables Scrittores and Cabinets The Dust and Shavings of Cedar laid amongst Linnen or Woollen destroys the Moth and all Verminous Insects It never rots breeding no Worm by which many other Woods are consumed and destroyed Of Cedar there are many sorts this in Carolina is esteemed of equal Goodness for Grain Smell and Colour with the Bermudian Cedar which of all the West Indian is esteemed the most excellent that in the Caribbe Islands and Jamaica being of a courser kind Oyl and the Spirit of Wine penetrating it but with this they make Heading for their Cask which the sharpest and most searching Liquors does not pierce With the Berry of the Tree at Bermudaz by Decoction they make a very wholesome and sovereign Drink This Tree in the Sacred Writ is famous especially