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A04691 A plaine description of the Barmudas, now called Sommer Ilands VVith the manner of their discouerie anno 1609. by the shipwrack and admirable deliuerance of Sir Thomas Gates, and Sir George Sommers, wherein are truly set forth the commodities and profits of that rich, pleasant, and healthfull countrie. With an addition, or more ample relation of diuers other remarkeable matters concerning those ilands since then experienced, lately sent from thence by one of the colonie now there resident.; Discovery of the Barmudas, otherwise called the Ile of Divels Jourdain, Silvester, d. 1650. 1613 (1613) STC 14817; ESTC S109247 18,076 52

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