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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07216	A briefe discourse of the Nevv-found-land with the situation, temperature, and commodities thereof, inciting our nation to goe forward in that hopefull plantation begunne.	Mason, John, 1586-1635.	1620 (1620)	STC 17616; ESTC S109928	7,050	16

A BRIEFE DISCOVRSE of the Nevv-found-land with the situation temperature and commodities thereof inciting our Nation to goe forward in that hopefull plantation begunne Scire tuum nihil est nisi te scire hoc sciat alter EDINBVRGH Printed by Andro Hart. 1620. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL SIR IOHN SCOTT of Scots-Tarvet KNIGHT c. SIR you are like to haue none other accompt for the present than such as Marchant-Factors after bad markets returne that is papers for paymeÌ„t for liuers lines The which though not so acceptable as more solide returnes yet giues some satisfactioÌ„ for the expenses of time questionable I haue sent you a discourse of our Countrie penned at the request of friends for the better satisfaction of our Nobilitie vnpolished and rude bearing the countries badge where it was hatched onely clothed with plainnesse and trueth I intreat your fauourable acceptation thereof as your wonted clemencie hath beene to the Author if you thinke it may doe good by incouraging any of your Countrie to the interprise I am willing you publish it other wise let it bee buried in silence as you shall thinke meetest and esteeme mee still one of whome you haue power to dispose IOHN MASON To the Reader FOR as much as there bee sundrie relations of the New-found-land and the commodities thereof Some too much extolling it some too much debasing it preferring the temperature of the aire there of before ours the hopes of commodities there without paines and mineralles as if they were apparent which as I deny to bee a veritie yet I affirme not to bee impossible with other narrations dissenting from the trueth the which although done out of a good affection yet had they better beene vndone I haue therefore gentle Reader hoping of thy fauourable construction set downe in few and plaine tearmes out of that experience I haue gained in three yeares and seuenth monthes residence there the trueth as thou shalt finde by proofe thereof to the which I recommend thee and vs all to his Grace that is able and will plant those that feare him in a better Kingdome Farewell Thine and his Countries in part not whollie his owne IOHN MASON A BRIEF DISCOVRSE of the Newfoundland with the Situation temperature and commodities thereof inciting our Nation to goe forward in that hopefull plantation begunne THE Countrie commonly knowne and called by the name of Newfoundland albeit it is so much frequented and resorted yearely to by thousands of our Nation and others which haue scarcely so much as a superficiall knowledge thereof onely so much as concerneth their fishings excepted is an Iland or Ilands as some plats haue described it situate on the front of America betwixt 46. and 52. degrees of Northerly latitude of the bignes of Ireland the Eastermost side thereof bounded with the Ocean extendeth it selfe nearest North and South the variation allowed 100. Leagues the south face deuided from the Iles of Cap. Bretone by the Gulfe of Sainct Lowrence a straight of 27. Leagues ouer lyeth West and by North northerly and East and by South Southerly in length 77. Leagues on the West part imbraced by the Grand-bay stretching it selfe Northeast and Southwest 75. Leagues and on the North confined by the Norther arme of the Grand-bay which separateth it from the continent of Noua Francia making a fret of 7. Leagues wide is described by the Rhombe of W. and by North and E. and by S. 25. Leag Almost of a Triangular forme sauing that many bays Inlets making incroachment haue disfigured the face therof with Scars eating into the land into 40 leagues space on the South part where we haue searched 30 as good Harbours as the world affords The longitude thereof reackoned from the westermost part of the Insulae fortunatae is 330 degrees distant in the Line of West by the South from our Meridian 45. degrees by coÌ„mon account which in the midle parallell of the differeÌ„ce the Latitude betwixt the laÌ„ds end of England the bodie of Newfoundland at 39. one halfe miles answerable to each degree in the same maketh 1764. miles or 588 Leagues The aire subtle wholesome the Summer season pleasant conforme to the like latitude in Europe sauing that the woodie places in Iune Iulie are somewhat pestered with small Flies bred of the rottenes of ruined woode moysture like as in Russia The Winter degenerating therfrom being as cold snowy as 60 degrees in Europe of the like temperature in December Ian. Febr. March as the northermest parts in Scotland viz. The Hebrides and the Orcades wherin I haue twise wintered or of the Coast betwixt Hamburgh the mouth of the Sownd or Nose of Norway yet more comfortable for the length of the day in Winter which exceedeth theirs three houres at the least And albeit it be thus cold in the Winter season by accidentall meanes contrarie to the naturall position thereof in the Spheare yet is it tollerable as by experience so that there needs no Stoaues as in Germanie Likewise fruitefull enough both of Sommer and Winter corne an example for our comfirmation thereof we haue in Poland one of the greatest corne Countries of Europe yet as cold and subject to freizing as Newfoundland as also our owne experience both in Wheate Rye Barlie Oates and Pease which haue growen and ripened there as well and al 's timely as in Yorkshire in England And for grouth of Garden herbes of diuers sorts as Hysope Time Parsely Clarie Nepe french Mallowes Buglosse Collombines Wormewood c. There is at this present of 3. yeares old of my sowing likewise Rosemary Fenell Sweete marierim Bassell Purselyn Lettise and all other Herbes Rootes as torneps Pasnepes Caretts and Radishes we haue found to growe well there in the Sommer season The common wild herbes of the Countrie are Angelica Violets Mints Scabius Yarrow Ferne Salsaparilla with diuers other sorts whereof I am ignorant But suppose would for variety and rariety compose another Herball of these kinds wee haue only made vse of certain great green leaues pleÌ„tifully growing in the woods and a great Roote growing in fresh water ponds both good against the Skiruye and an other prettie Roote with a blew stalke and leaues of the nature of a Skirret growing in a dry Beachy ground good meate boyled The Countrie fruites wild are cherries small whole groaues of them Filberds good a small pleasant fruite called a Peare Damaske Roses single very sweet excelleÌ„t Straberries and Hartleberries with aboundance of Rasberries and Gooseberries somewhat better than ours in England all which replanted would be much inlarged There is also a kinde of wild Coranies wild Pease or Feetches in many places which we haue both found good meat and medecine for the Skiruy The Land of the North parts most mountanye woodye very thick of Firre trees Spruce Pine Lereckhout Aspe Hasill a kinde of stinking wood the three formest goodly Timber and most conuenieÌ„t for Building No Oakes

none in the south parts of the Countrie by whom the planters as yet neuer suffered damage against whom if they should seeke to trouble vs a small fortification will serue being but few in number and those onely Bow men Also if any Warres should happen betwixt vs and other Nations wee neede not feare rooting out For the Yce is a Bulwarke all Aprill commonlie and after that during the whole Summer wee haue a garison of 9. or 10. 1000 of our owne Nation with many good and warlike Shippes who of necessitie must defend the fishing season for their liuings sake as they alwayes formerlie haue done in the Warres with Spaine And afterwards in the monthes of Haruest and Winter the winds are our friends and will hardlie suffer any to approch vs the which if they should the cold opposite to the nature of the Spainard will giue him but cold Intertainement neither will the Plantours be altogether puffed vp with carelesse securitie but fortifie in some measure knowing that Non sunt securi qui dant sua Colla securi Nowe hauing formerly layed downe the temperature of the Aire and disposition of the Weather in the Winter season to be cold and consequently differeÌ„t from other places of the same situation vnder the same Parallel in Europe and by experience answerable to 59. or 60. degrees thereof It will be expected that I should shew some reasons concerning the same which according to mine opinion submitting my selfe to better Iudgements I will set downe It being a generall rule approued through America that any place vnder the same Parallel of another place in Europe is as cold as those places which are situate in 12. or 13. degrees to the North wards therof and the same rule holdeth a like on either side of the Equinoctiall For example the straights of Magelan in 54. to the South of the Equinoctiall are more cold snowie and boysterous than any part of Europe in 65 Likewise on this side the Line the Country about the Riuer Orenoaque and Trinidade in 9. or ten degrees is fouÌ„d as temperate as Gualata vnder 23. degrees of more northerlie latitude in Africa So likewise Sainct Augustine in Florida vnder 31. degrees is anserable to Valadulid in 42. degrees in Spaine also the plantations vnder 37. degrees in Virginia are correspondent in the Winter to the temperature of Deuenshire or Cornewell vnder 50. degrees heare in England and although their Summer bee some what hotter in regard of the nearenes of the Sunne being then in Cancer within 15. degrees of their Zenith the Radius therof then striking neare at a right Angle causing a strange reflection yet would it be much hotter if the Sun in his passage ouer the great Oceane 3000. miles broad vnder that Paralel betwixt Europe America by the exhalation of waterish vapours much moisture thereout into the middle region of the Aire did not coole the same which being made more grosse thick with misty Clouds his Beames cannot pearce through with their propre vigor and force to heate the Earth To this cooling of the Sunnes heate helpeth also all those great fresh ponds and lakes so abounding in America Fresh waters being more naturally cold than salt and both colder than the Earth of like qualitie also are the marish and Boggie groundes the Lands not manured and therefore more naturally cold the Country slenderly peopled voide of Townes and Cities whereof Europe is full the smoake whereof and heate of fires much qualifieth the coldnesse of the Aire Lastly the chiefest reason of the coldnesse in New-found-land in the VVinter season is the Yce which beeing congealed into great firme Lands Euen from the North Pole all alongst the Coast of Gronland Grenland The North-west passage Terra de laberador so towardes the Grandbay all that tract hauing many Inlets and broken Lands apt as vnnaturali wombes to breede and bring foorth such Monsters which being nursed in their ruder armes till the VVinter season past are turnde foorth of doores in the Spring to shift for themselues and being weary of their imprisonments in those angrie Climes with one accord as if they had agreed with winde and streame take Ferrie into Newfound-land which immuring vs in the months of Febru March both which are subject to northeast winds blowing from this Yce causeth it very cold The currant stil setting it southward as a Iaylor to bring it before the Iudge neuer leaueth it till with the helpe of the outset of Sainct Lawrence Gulfe it be presented nearer the Sun to be broild by his scorching Beames and consumed I cannot deny but in some VVinters betwixt Christmas and March Yce is bred in the Harbors and bayes of New-foundland by reason of the calmenesse of the winds there incident And the want of streames not causing motion in the Waters and when it is so frozen it is none otherwise then the Texsell or Inner Seas in Holand of 15. or 18. Inches thicknesse and breakes and consumes in the Spring all fresh Lakes frozen opens in the end of March or the beginning of Aprill which brings with it many showers to wash away Snow and bare the ground and in the midle of the Month many Ships arriue of the English some French and in the midest of May some Portingalls All which as so many Reapers come to the Haruest gathering in aboundance the wonderfull blessings of the Lord. I might heare further discourse of our discoueries conference with the Saluages by Master Iohn Gye their maner of life Likewise of the managinge our businesse in our plantations with the descriptions of their situations in 2. places 16. miles distant from other on the northside the bay of conception of the manner charge and benefite of our fishings with the seuerall strange formes and natures of Fishes projects for making Yron Salt Pitch Tarre Tirpintine Frank-Incense Furres Hope of trade with Saluages and such like with many accidents and occurences in the time of my gouerment there but these may suffice as Verbum sapienti being of sufficient trueth to remoue errours of conceiuing the Countrie more pleasant by reason of his naturall sight in the Spheare then it is indeede also to convince and take away malicious and scandelous speeches of maligne persons who out of enuy to GOD and good Actions instructed by their father the Deuill haue sought to dispoile it of the dewe and blamish the good name thereof And lastlie to induce thee gentle Reader to the true consideration thereof as a thing of great consequence to our Nation not only at present but like to bee much more beneficiall when the plaintations there shall increase which God grant to his owne glorie and the good of our Common-Wealth FINIS

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