Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	deep_a	fathom_n	league_n	3,088	5	9.6883	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16495	An encouragement to colonies· by Sir VVilliam Alexander, Knight	Stirling, William Alexander, Earl of, 1567 or 8-1640.	1624 (1624)	STC 341; ESTC S104369	33,480	61

things as were needfull Though it might haue discouraged mee much that they had retired to New-found-land foreseeing that what they had with them might be wasted and that it would bee 〈◊〉 chargeable end difficult to furnish them forth from thence as if they were to goe of new from Scotland yet rather then they should bee in danger for want of prouision making me any way guiltie of their losse that had aduentured their liues trusting to my care I fraughted a shippe of purpose furnished with such things as were required in a Note which they sent home with their Messenger This shippe was dispatched by mee from London in the end of March 1623. but shee happened to stay so long at Plimmouth first vpon some necessary occasions and last by contrary winds it being the eight and twentieth of April before shee parted from thence hauing no good windes at all that they arriued not at Saint Iohns Harbour till the fift of Iune At their comming they found the company not fit for a Plantion which had first by an vnexpected cause been deuided in two during the Winter and in May some doubting of a supply had engaged themselues to serue Fishermen by which meanes they gained their maintenance and some meanes beside so that they could hardly be gathered together againe and their Minister and Smith both for Spirituall and Temporall respects the two most necessary members were both dead so that seeing no hope to plant themselues in any good fashion that yeere ten of the principall persons concluded to go alongst with the ship to New Scotland to discouer the Countrey and to make choice of a fit place for a Habitation against the next yeere considering very well that they could not doe so much good by staying there with so few a number as they might doe at their returne by reporting the truth to their friends of that which they had seene whereby a new Colonie might be encouraged to set forth well furnished and instructed according to that which might bee learned by their experience The three and twentieth of Iune they loosed from Saint Iohns Harbour and sayled towards New Scotland where for the space of fourteene dayes they were by fogges and contrary winds kept backe from spying Land till the eight of Iuly that they saw the West part of Cape Bretton and till the thirteenth day they sayled alongst the Coast till they ranne the length of Port de Mutton where they discouered three very pleasant Harbours and went ashore in one of them which after the shippes name they called Lukes Bay where they found a great way vp a very pleasant Riuer being three fathom deep at a low water at the entry thereof on euery side of the same they did see very delicate Medowes hauing Roses white and red growing thereon with a kind of wilde Lilly which had a daintie smel the next day they resolued coasting alongst the land to discouer the next Harbour which was but two leagues distant from the other where they found a more pleasant Riuer then the first being foure fathome deepe at a low water with Medowes on both sides thereof hauing Roses and Lillies growing thereon as the other had they found within this Riuer a very fit place for a Plantation both in regard that it was naturally apt to be fortified and that all the ground betweene the two Riuers was without wood and very good fat Earth hauing seuerall sorts of beries growing thereon as Goose-beries Straw-beries Hind-beries Rasberies and a kind of red Wine berie as also some sorts of graine as Pease some Eares of Wheate Early and Rie growing there wilde the Pease grow in abundance alongst the Coast very bigge and good to eate but did taste of the fitch this Riuer is called Port Iolly from whence they coasted alongst to Port Negro beeing twelue leagues distant where all the way as they sayled alongst they spied a very pleasant Countrey hauing growing euery where such things as were obserued in the two Harbours where they had beene before They found likewise in euery Riuer abundance of Lobsters Cockles and other shel-fishes and also not onely in the Riuers but all the Coast alongst numbers of seuerall sorts of Wild-foule as Wild-goose blacke Ducke Woodcocke Crane Heron Pidgeon and many other sorts of Fowle which they knew not They did kill as they sayled alongst the Coast ●●eat store of Cod with seuerall other sorts of great fishes The Countrie is full of Woods not very thicke and the most part Oake the rest are Firre Spruce Birch with some Sicamores and Ashes and many other sorts of Wood which they had not seene before Hauing discouered this part of the Countrie in regard of the Voyage their ship was to make to the Straits with fishes they resolued to coast alongst from Lukes Bay to Port de Mutton beeing foure leagues to the East thereof where they encountred with a Frenchman that in a very short time had made a great Voyage for though he had furnished one ship away with a great number of fishes there were neere so many readie as to load himselfe others After they had taken a view of this Port which to their iudgement they found no waies inferiour to the rest they had seene before they resolued to retire backe to New-found-land where their ship was to receiue her loading of fishes The 20. of Iuly they loosed from thence and the seuen and twentieth thereof they arriued at Saint Iohns Harbour and from thence sailed alongst to the Bay of Conception where they left the ship and dispatched themselues home in seuerall ships that belonged to the West part of England This is no wonder that the French beeing so slieghtly planted did take no deeper roote in America for they as onely desirous to know the nature and qualitie of the soile and of things that were likely to grow there did neuer seeke to haue them in such quantitie as was requisite for their maintenance affecting more by making a needlesse oftentation that the World should know they had beene there then that they did continue still to inhabit there like them that were more in loue with glorie then with vertue then being alwaies subiect to diuisions amongst themselues it was impossible that they could subsist which proceeded sometime from emulation or enuie and at other times from the lazinesse of the disposition of some who lothing labor could bee commanded by none who would impose more vpon them then was agreeable with the indifferencie of their affections and superficiall endeuours The English were free from these mutinies and wanted not industry enough but either out of a custome they haue to trauell more for the benefit that doth flow from grasse then by manuring of the ground for Corne or otherwise if they were forced so to doe by their Owners at London who enforcing a speedie returne by their labour would needs be trusted with furnishing of them victuals they applying themselues to Tobacco and such