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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

care for the time to come He further saith that they are much addicted to Mirth and Dancing they are also much prone to Honour and Valour which they place above all other Vertues which doth occasion them to be so continually engaged against one another in Wars and that side which Fortune Crowneth with Victory Triumphal Jollaties are performed by them The Countrey he saith is divided into several petty Kingdoms and the People in the one keep no good Correspondence with those that border upon them and on the least occasion wage War one against another In this Countrey of Carolina he saith that there are several Indian Towns which are generally the Habitation of the King that commands the Territory The Proprietors of Carolina This Province or Countrey of Carolina was first Possessed by the English about the year 1660 and became a Proprietorship which his present Majesty K. Charles the Second granted by Patent to the Right Noble George Duke of Albemarle Earl of Torrington Baron Moncke of Potheridge Peachampe and Teys Knight of the Noble Order of the Garter Captain General of his Majesties Land-Forces and one of the Lords of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council c. The Right Honourable Edward Earl of Clarendon Viscount Cornbury and Baron Hide of Hendon c. The Right Honourable William Earl of Craven Viscount Craven of Uffington Baron Craven of Hamsted-Marshal Lord Lieutenant of the County of Middlesex and Borouh of Southwark and one of the Lords of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council c. The Right Honourable John Lord Berkley Baron Berkley of Stratton Lord Lievtenant of Ireland for his Majesty c. The Right Honourable Anthony Lord Ashley Baron Ashley of Winbourn St. Giles Chancellour of the Exchequor under-under-Treasurer of England one of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury and one of the Lords of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council c. The Honourable Sr. George Carteret of Hawnes in Bedfordshire Baronet Vice-Chamberlain of his Majesties Houshold and one of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council c. Sr. William Berkley of in the County of Knight and Baronet and to Sr. John Colleton of London Knight and Baronet and to their Heirs and Successors And the said Lords proprietors having by their Patent power to establish a Government and make Lawes for the better Regulation thereof and the inviting of Inhabitants have formed a Model which by the general consent of all the Proprietors was drawn up by the Right Honourable the Lord Ashley a person of great Worth and Prudence whose knowledg in matters of State and the Settlement of a Government is sufficiently praise worthy by all perso●● Which said Model is so well fr●med for the good and welfare 〈◊〉 the Inhabitants that it is estee●ed by all judicious persons withou● compare but the said Model b●ing too long to be set down in th●● small Treatise I must be constra●ned to omit it The Settlements of the English Here are at present two considerable Settlements of the English for so short a time the one at Albemarle-River in the North and the other about the midst of the Countrey on Ashley River which is likely to be the Scale of Trade for the whole Countrey as being scituate very Commodious for Shipping and in a healthful place A DESCRIPTION OF VIRGINIA Its Bounds VIRGINIA particularly now so called hath for its Southern Limits Carolina for its Eastern the Atlantick Ocean for its Northern Mariland and for its Western that vast tract of Land which runneth into the South-Sea It s Name This Countrey was said to b● first discovered by Sr. Franc●● Drake as indeed all this Tract o● Sea-Coast and was so named by Sir Walter Rawleigh a great promoter of this discovery in honou● of Queen Elizabeth who the● Reigned The Settlement of the English Much time was spent in the discovery of this Countrey with vast expences in the setting forth of Ships and not without the great loss o● many a poor wretches life besore it could be brought to perfection but at length through the Industry of Captain John Smith and other worthy persons who took great pains for the advancement of these discoveries fortune began to smile ●n her and about the Reign of King James a Patent was grant●d to certain persons as a Corpora●ion and called the Company of Adventurers of Virginia Afterwards other Patents were granted to them for larger Extents of Land excluded in the former ●ut the said Corporation committing of several and frequent Misdemeanours and Miscarriages the said Patent about the year 1623 was made Nul since which it hath been free for all his Majesties Subjects to Trade into these parts It s Air and Temperature This Countrey is blest with a sweet aud wholesome Air and the Clime of late very agreeable to the English since the clearing o● Woods so that now few dyeth o● the Countreys disease called th● Seasoning The Soyl. It is every where interlaced with delectable Hills and rich Valleys and of a Soyl so Fertile that an Acre of ground commonly yieldeth 200 Bushels of Corn and is very apt to produce what is put therein as English Grains Roots Seeds Plants Fruits c. besides those appropriated to the Countrey and other adjacent parts of America Their Fruits Here are excellent Fruits in great abundance which may be compared with those of Italy or Spain as Apricocks Peaches Mellons Apples Pears Plumbs Cherries Grapes Figgs Pomgranates Quinces Maracocks Puchamines Chesnuts Walnuts Olives Straberries Rasberries Goosberries and Mulberries in great abundance Of their Apples they make Syder of their Pears Perry and of their Grapes Wine Their Roots and Herbs They have several sorts of Roots as Potatoes Carrets Turnips Artichoaks Onyons Cabbages Collyflowers Sparagus c. And most sort of Garden-herbs known to us in great plenty Their Fowles and Birds Here is great plenty of Fowle as wild Turkeys which usually weigh 6 stone Partridges Swans Geese Ducks Teal Widgeons Dotterels Heathcocks Oxeyes Brants Pidgeons Cranes Herons Eagles and several sorts of Hawkes And for small Birds innumerable quantities of sundry sorts as Blackbirds Thrushes Red-birds and above all the Mockbirds which counterfeiteth the notes of all Birds Their Wilde Beasts and Tame Cattle They have great store of wilde Beasts as Lyons Bears Leopards Tygers Wolves and Dogs like Wolves but brake not Buffeloes Elks whose Flesh is as good as Beef Rosconnes Utchunquois Deer Hares Bevers Ottors Foxes Martins Poulcats Wesells Musk-Rats Flying Squirils c. And for Tame Cattle Cowes Sheep Goats Hoggs and Horses in great plenty Their Fish Here is great plenty of Excellent Fish as well in the Sea and Bay of Chesopeack as in the Rivers viz. Cods Thornback Sturgeon Grampuses Porpuses Drums Cat-Fish Basses Sheepsheads which makes broath like that of Mutton Cony-Fish Rock-Fish Creey-Fish White Salmons Mullets Soles Plaice Mackrel Trouts Perches Conger-Eels Herrings Crabs Oysters Shrimps Cockles Muscles

Here is also a very fair Hospital built by the General for such people that cannot get cure at their Houses where they are well maintained and attended by Doctors and Physitians for the recovery of their Healths Here is also a stately Castle being the Residence of the Governour most pleasantly seated at the foot of a high Mountain not far from the Sea having spacious Courts delightful Walks and Gardens and enjoyeth a curious prospect A DESCRIPTION OF The ISLAND of NIEVIS or MEVIS THe Island of Nievis or Mevis lyeth not far from St. Christophers as I have before noted and in the Latitude of Seventeen degrees and Nineteen minutes It is but small being not above Eighteen miles in Circuite There is but One Mountain in the Isle and that is seated in the midst which is of a great height but of an easy Access and cloathed with Trees from its Somett to the bottom and about this Mountain are the Plantations which reach to the Sea-Shore Springs of Water Here are divers Springs of Fresh-Water and one Spring of a Hott and Mineral Water not far from whose Spring-head are Baths made which are much frequented for the curing of several distempers of the Body of man It is indifferent Fertile and hath store of Deer and other Game for Hunting The Isle is Inhabited by about three or four Thousand who live well and drive a Trade for such things as they have occasion for by exchanging such Commodities as the Isle produceth as Sugar Cotton Ginger Tobacco c. It is a well-Governed Colony where Justice is duly administred and all Vices severely punished For the Worship of God here are three Churches and for its further defence and safety it hath a Fort whereon are mounted several Peeces for the security of the Ships in the Road or Harbour called Bath-Bay as also the the publique Store-house This Isle as the rest of the Caribbee's are troubled with Muscheto's Chigos Murigoins and other Stinging Flyes which do much Annoy the Inhabitants A DESCRIPTION OF The ISLAND of ANTEGO THe Island of Antego is seated in the Latitude of 16 degrees and 11 min. It is in Length about six or seven Leagues and about the same breadth in many places It is of a difficult access and very dangerous for Shipping by reason of the Rocks which encompass it It hath some few Springs of Fresh-water besides which the Inhabitants which are about 8 or 900. have made several Cisterns and Ponds for the preserving of Rain-Water The Isle doth abound in Fish amongst which is the Sword-Fish which of all others would be the chief in the Sea Here are great plenty of most sorts of Wild Fowl and not wanting in Venison and Tame Cattle The Commodities that it affordeth are Sugar Indico Ginger Tobacco c. The Lord propriator of this Isle is the Rt. Hon. Will. L d. Willowby of Parham who is Governour of the Island of Barbadoes and some other Isles A DESCRIPTION OF The ISLAND of St. VINCENT THe Island of St. Vincent lyeth in the Latitude of Sixteen degrees It is about 20 miles in length and Fifteen in breadth of a Fertile Soyl yielding abundance of Sugar-Canes which grow Naturally without Planting It is well watered with Rivers and affordeth many safe Roads and convenient Bayes for Shipping The English have here some Settlement but are not very powerful A DESCRIPTION OF The ISLAND of DOMINICA THis Isle is seated in the Latitude of Fifteen degrees and a half It is about 12 Leagues in length and 8 in breadth On the West side of the Isle there is a convenient Harbour for Ships It is very Montainous yet not without many Fertile Valleys producing several Commodities but chiefly Tobacco which is planted by the English but the Natives which are Canibals and very Barbarous doth much hinder the comming of the English to settle here A DESCRIPTION OF The ISLAND of MONTSERRAT MONTSERRAT an Island of a small Extent not exceeding Ten miles in Length and of a less Breadth It is seated in the Latitude of 17 degree It is much inclined to Mountains which are well cloathed with Caedar and other Trees and the Valleys and Plains ar● very Fertile This Isle is most Inhabited by the Irish who have here a Church for Divine Worship A DESCRIPTION OF The ISLAND of ANGVILLA THis Isle is seated in the Latitude of Eighteen degrees and One and Twenty Minutes It Extendeth it self in length about Ten Leagues and in breadth about Three The Inhabitants are English which are Computed to amoun● unto two or three Hundred who are but poor the Isle being said not to be worth the keeping A DESCRIPTION OF The ISLAND of BARBADA BARBADA or Barboude scituate in the Latitude of of Seventeen degrees and a half It is an Isle of no great Extent not exceeding Fifteen miles in Length nor is it of any considerable Account to the English who are the Possessors of it Yet is it found to be of a Fertile Soyl and to be well stored with Cattle Sheep c. and may produce several good Commodities were it well managed to the advantage of the Inhabitants A DESCRIPTION OF The ISLES of BERMVDES OR The Summer-ISLES EAst of Virginia and Carolina which is a part of Florida lyeth the Isles of Bermudes so called from John Bermudes a Spaniard by whom they were first discovered They are also called the Summer-Isles from the Shipwrack that one George Summers an English-man there suffered These Isles lye distant from England about 15 or 1600 Leagues from Madera 1000 or 1200 from Hispaniola 400 and from Carolina which is the neerest part of Land about 300 Leagues Their Extent Of these Isles the greatest called St. Georges is 5 or 6 Leagues long and almost thorowout not above a quarter a third or half a League broad the others are much less Their Form c. All these Isles together form a body like a Cressent and inclose very good Ports the chief among which are those of the Great-Sound Herringtons Inlet South-hampton and Pagets which with their Forts of Dover and Warwick take their names from the several Noble men that were concerned as undertakers The Fertility Commodities Fruits c. The Earth is exceeding Fertile yeilding two Crops yearly their Maize they gather in July and December They have excellent Fruits as Oranges Dates Mulberries both White and Red where breed abundance of Silk-worms which spin Silk Their chief Commodities are OOranges Couchaneil and Tobacco with some Pearl and Ambergreece and with these they drive some small Trade They have plenty of Tortoises which is their ordinary food whose Flesh is very delicious Their Hoggs which the Spaniards formerly carried thither are greatly encreased They have many Fowles and Birds amongst which a great many Cranes with a Sea-Fowl that breeds in holes like Rabbets They have no