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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

Ireland taking in exchange such Commodities as each place affordeth or are found useful to them It is a place of a good strength having two or three Hills adjoyning on which are raised Fortifications with great Peices mounted thereon which are well guarded Charles-Town seated on and between the Rivers Charles and Mistick it is beautified with a large and well-built Church and near the River side is the Market-place from which runneth two Streets in which are divers good Houses Dorchester scituate near the Sea where there falleth in two Rivulets An indifferent Town Cambridg formerly New-Town seated on the River Merrimeck this Town consisteth of several Streets and is beautified with two Colledges and divers fair and well built Houses St. Georges-Fort seated on the mouth of the River Sagadebock New-Plimouth seated on that large Bay of Potuxed Reading commodiously seated about a great Pond and well-watered and Inhabited In this Town are two Mills one for Corn and the other for Timber Salem pleasantly seated betwixt two Rivers Other Towns placed Alphabetically Berwick Braintree Bristol Concord Dartmouth Dedham Dover Exeter Falmouth Glocester Greens-Harbour Hampton Hartford Haverhil Hingham Hull Ipswich Lin Maulden New-bury New-Havon Northam Norwich Oxford Rowley Roxbury Salisbury Sandwich Southampton Spring-field Sudbury Taunton Water-Town Wenham Weymouth Woburne and Yarmouth Most of these Towns beareth the names from those in England and many of them are of good account being commodiously seated either on the Sea-Shore or on Navigable Rivers and are well Inhabited And most of those Towns are known to the Indians by other Names A DESCRIPTION OF NEW-FOVND-LAND NEwfoundland is an Island in Extent equal to England from whence it is distant little above 600 Leagues lying near half way between Ireland and Virginia It is scituated betwixt the degrees of 46 and 53 of Northern Latitudes and it is only severed from the Continent of America by an Arm of the Sea like that which separates England from France Its Bays Rivers Fish Fowl Beasts c. It is Famous for many spacious and excellent Bayes and Harbours and within the Land for the variety of Fresh Springs whose waters are exceeding delicious It is enriched by nature with plenty of Fish Land and Water-Fowl and sufficiently stockt with Deer Hares Otters Foxes Squirils and other Beasts which yield good Furrs And though not over-run generally with Woods it doth afford besides store of Fewel abundance of stately Trees fit for Timber Masts Planks and sundry other uses The soile and Climate The Soile in most places is reputed fertile the Climate wholsome though the rigour of the winter season and the excess of Heats in Summer doth detract something from its due praise How Inhabited The North and West part of this Countrey the Native-Indians Inhabit though but few in number and those a more rude and savage sort of People then those of New-England and other places in the adjacent Contenent already taken notice of New-found-Land first discovered by the English The Island of New-found Land was first discovered by the English who are the true Propriators thereof excluding all Forreigne right and justifying the same to belong to the Crown of England only whose Interest hath been there continued by several under the Reigns of divers Kings Queens In the year 1623 Sir George Calvert Knight then Principal Secretary of State and afterwards Ld. Baltemore obtained a Patent of part of New-found-land which was erected into a Province and called Avalon where he caused a Plantation to be setled and a stately House and Fort to be built at Ferryland and afterwards Transported himself and Family thither and continuing the Plantation by his Deputy till by descent after his Lordships decease it came to his son and heir the Right Honorable Caecilius now Lord Baltemore who by Deputies from time to time was no less careful to preserve his Interest there which though during the late troubles in England it was by Sir David Kirkes means for some years discontinued he was soon reinvested in the same by his Majesties most happy Restauration There is no part of New-found-land generally more happy for multiplicity of excellent Bayes and Harbours then this Province and where vast quantities of Fish are yearly caught by the English especially at Ferryland and the Bay of Bulls But the whole Coast of the Island affords infinite plenty of Codd and Poor-John which is the chief Commodity of the Isle which is grown to a setled Trade for these many years to the enrichment of all those that Trade thither A great bank of Land East of Newfoundland over against Cape-Ray at the distance of about 70 miles lyeth a great Bank of Land of about 300 miles in Length and not above Seventy-five in Breadth where broadest It lyes under the Sea many Fathoms deep so the Ships of a considerable Burthen may ride over it and about this Banck lyes dispersed several small Isles called by St. Sebastion Cabot the first discoverer Los Baccaloos or the Isles of Cod-fish from the prodigious quantities of Cod-Fish there found which were said to obstruct ●he passage of his Vessels The Trade to this Island The French Dutch Biscaners and other Nations that yearely Trade hither amounting to between 3 or 400 Vessels are assured to find sufficient Freight of Cod and Poor John which they find good vent for in the Streights Spaine France and other Countreys to their great profit and encouragement And were the English diligent to inspect the advantage that might accrue to this Nation by settling Plantations on the Island and raising Fortifications for the security of the place we might give Law to all forreigners that come to Fish there and in few Years engross the whole Fishery to our selves the greatest Ballance perchance of Forraigne Trade FINIS It s Scituation It s Form Extent It s Soyl and Fertility Savanas formerly Fields of Indian Maiz. The Air Temperature Huricanes not in this Isle The Winter known only by Rain and Thunder Dayes Nights almost equal Sugars Cocao Indico Cotton Tobacco Hydes Tortoise Shells Curious Woods Copper Silver Ambergreece Salt Saltpeter Ginger Cod-Peper Piemente Druggs Gumms Cochaneil Of Servants Horses Cowes Asnegroes Mules Sheep Goats Hoggs Excellent Fish in great plenty Tortoise great variety of Tame Wild Fowl Excellent Fruits Herbs Roots Jamaica very healthful Diseases strangers are most subject unto Manchonele Snakes Guianas Alligators Muskettoes Merry-wings Port-Royal Port-Morant Old Harbour Point-Negrill Port-Antonio Other good bayes Harbors St. Jago Sevilla Mellila Orista 14 Precincts or Parishes in the Isle Sre the Mapp The Names of the Precincts or Parishes in the Isle Their Lawes The Spaniards First settlement The Spaniards inclined to Idleness 1. Consideration 2. Consid 3. Consid 4. Consid 5. Consid 6. Consid 7. Consid 8. Consid 9. Consid 1. Consid 2. Consid 4. Consid Commodities Imported and its Trade 4 Consid 5. Consid 6. Consid 7. Consid 8. Consid 9. Consid 10. Consideration It s Scituation Rivers It s Fertility Commodities Dayes Nights almost equal Temperature of Air. The Air moist Their Fruits Their Fish Their Beasts Herbs Roots Birds and Fowles Animals and Insects Trees Several Caves It s Division and Townes St. Michaels Litle Bristol Charles-Town Other Places on the Sea-Coast The Inhabitants Negro-Slaves Their Food Their Drink Their Apparel Their Lodging The Management of a Plantation The Island very strong The Government of the Island The Isle divided into four Circuits The present Governour See Mr. Ligons Book of Barbadoes page 87. It s Scituation c. It s Soyl and Commodities The Isle very delightful and of a pleasing Prospect The Isle Possessed by the English French Their Churches A Town Possessed by the French It s Scituation Extent A Spring of Mineral water and Baths Their Churches c. It s Scituation Extent The Number of Inhabitants Fish Fowl Cattle Commodities It s Scituation Extent and Fertility It s Scituation Extent It s Extent Scituation Fertility c. It s Scituation extent c. It s Scituation Fertility c. Their Scituation and Name St. Georges Isle Several good Ports It s Fertility Their Fruits Their Commodities Hoggs Fowles Defective in Fresh-water Their Spiders These Isles exceeding healthful The Inhabitants and strength of the Isle Its Bounds and Scituation This Country very healthful Their Fruits Commodities Trees Rivers Their Fowles The Disposition c. of the Natives It s Division into Kingdomes The Proprieters of Carolina Its Bounds It s Name and why so called † Capt. Smith a great Promoter of the English setling at Virginia Virginia nowvery healthful The Soyl very Rich. Excellent Fruits Plenty of Roots Herbs Abundance of Fowle Virginia well stored with Beasts Tame Cattle Variety of Fish The Product of the Country Their Trade Several good Woods It s chief Rivers James Town Elizabeth Town Dales Gift Virginia under a good Goverment The Counties Their Apparel Their Houses Their Dyet Chesopeak Bay Its Rivers The Country very healthful For the Beasts Fowl Fish Fruits c. See in the Description of Virginia Their Coyns way of Trade Maryland well Governed The Names of the Countries S. Maries Town This Country very Fertile New York The Disposition of the Natives Their Habit Dyet c. It s Scituation The Ayr. The Disposition of the Natives much like those of Virginia Excellent Fish Hurtfull things Fruits Commodities Trade The Government of the Inhabitants of New-England Boston Charles Town Dorchester Cambridg St. Georges Fort. Reading Salem It s Scituation Its Bayes and Rivers It s Fish Fowles Beasts Trees Its Inhabitants The English the true Proprieto●s of NewF●und-land The Ld. Baltemore the proprietor of Avalon in New-Found-Land A great bank of Land A great Trade here driven