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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
A54990	A description of the province of New Albion and a direction for adventurers with small stock to get two for one, and good land freely, and for gentlemen, and all servants, labourers, and artificers to live plentifully : and a former description re-printed of the healthiest, pleasantest, and richest plantation of New Albion in north Virginia, proved by thirteen witnesses : together with a letter from Master Robert Evelin, that lived there many years, shewing the particularities, and excellency thereof : with a briefe of the charge of victuall, and necessaries, to transport and buy stock for each planter, or labourer, there to get his master 50 l. per annum, or more in twelve trades, and at 10 l. charges onely a man.	Plantagenet, Beauchamp.; Evelyn, Robert, 17th cent.	1648 (1648)	Wing P2378; ESTC R10729	28,128	32

a Towr fit to be built on for a trading house for all the Indians of Chisepeack Gulfe it lieth a mile from each shore in Sasquehannocks river mouth and there four Sakers will command that river and renue the old trade that was it lieth in forty degrees and twelve minutes it is most healthy but cold neer the hils and full as all the seventeen rivers there of eleven sorts of excellent fresh fish the Indians in stead of salt doe barbecado or dry and smoak fish to each house a reek or great pile and another of Sun dried on the rocks Strawberries Mulberries Symnels Maycocks and Horns like Cucumbers The seventh is five mile off it called Mount Royall or Bolalmanack hill and more properly Belveder for thence you may see 100 miles off high hils above the clouds like sugar-loaves that shelter and bear off the North-west windes here is a clear Indian field sixe miles long to plant and plow rich land and as well stored as the rest and under it is Elk river having many branches navigable in all these the Tide of fresh sweet water ebbes and flowes and hath three fathome deep the mouth of it is like a fort with fit Isthmos and necks and runneth up seven leagues to a street but eleven miles over land into Charles river and Delaware Bay this neck is a rare work of God for it is 450 miles compasse to goe by sea and water from one side to the other of this eleven miles street and Vvedale is on one of these branches The eight seat is Kildorpy neer the fals of Charles river neer 200 miles up from the Ocean it hath clear fields to plant and sow and neer it is sweet large meads of clover or honysuckle no where else in America to be seen unlesse transported from Europe a ship of 140 tuns may come up to these fals which is the best seat for health and a trading house to be built on the rocks and ten leagues higher are lead mines in stony hils The ninth is called Mount Ployden the seat of the Raritan King on the North side of this Province twenty miles from Sandhay sea and ninety from the Ocean next to Amara hill the retired Paradise of the children of the Ethiopian Emperour a wonder for it is a square rock two miles compasse 150 foot high a wall-like precipice a strait entrance easily made invincible where he keeps two hundred for his guard and under it a flat valley all plain to plant and sow The Sasquehannocks new Town is also a rare healthy and rich place with it a Crystall broad river but some fals below hinder navigation and the Hooke hill on the Ocean with its clear fields neer Hudsons river on one side and a ten leagues flowing river on the southside is much commended for health and fish were it not so Northerly The bounds is a thousand miles compasse of this most temperate rich Province for our South bound is Maryland North bounds and beginneth at Aquats or the Southermost or first Cape of Delaware Bay in thirty eight and forty minutes and so runneth by or through or including Kent Isle through Chisapeack Bay to Pascatway including the fals of Pawtomecke river to the head or Northermost branch of that river being three hundred miles due West and thence Northward to the head of Hudsons river fifty leagues and so down Hudsons river to the Ocean sixty leagues and thence by the Ocean and Isles a crosse Delaware Bay to the South Cape fifty leagues in all seven hundred and eighty miles Then all Hudsons river Isles Long Isle or Pamunke and all Isles within ten leagues of the said Province being and note Long Isle alone is twenty broad and one hundred and eighty miles long so that alone is four hundred miles compasse Now I have examined all former Patents some being surrendred and some adjudged void as gotten on false suggestions as that at the Councell Table was at Master Gonges suit of Matachusets and as Captain Clayborn heretofore Secretary and now Treasurer of Virginia in dispute with Master Leonard Calvert alledgeth that of Maryland is likewise void in part as gotten on false suggestions for as Cap Clayborn sheweth the Maryland Patent in the first part declareth the Kings intention to bee to grant a land therea fter described altogether dishabited and unplanted though possest with Indians Now Kent Isle was with many housholds of English by C. Clayborn before seated and because his Majesty by his privy signet shortly after declared it was not his intention to grant any lands before seated and habited and for that it lieth by the Maryland printed Card clean North-ward within Albion and not in Maryland and not onely late Sea-men but old Depositions in Claybornes hand shew it so to be out of Maryland and for that Albions Privy signet is elder and before Maryland Patent Clayborn by force entred and thrust out Master Calvert out of Kent Next Maryland Patent coming to the Ocean saith along by the Ocean unto Delaware Bay That is the first Cape of the two most plain in view and exprest in all late English and Dutch Cards and note unto Delaware Bay is not into the Bay nor farther then that Cape heading the Bay being in thirty eight and forty or at most by seven Observations I have seen thirty eight and fifty minutes So as undoubtedly that is the true intended and ground bound and line and no farther for the words following are not words of Grant but words of Declaration that is Which Delaware Bay lieth in forty degrees where New England ends these are both untrue and so being declarative is a false suggestion is void for no part of Delaware Bay lieth in forty Now if there were but the least doubt of this true bounds I should wish by consent or commission a perambulation and boundary not but there is land enough for all and I hold Kent Isle having lately but twenty men in it and the Mill and Fort pulled down and in war with all the Indians neer it not worth the keeping But it is materiall to give a touch of Religion and Government to satisfie the curious and well-minded Adventurer For Religion it being in England yet unsettled severall Translations of Bibles and those expounded to each mans fancy breeds new Sects I conceive the Holland way now practised best to content all parties first by Act of Parliament or Grand Assembly to settle and establish all the Fundamentals necessary to salvation as the three Creeds the Ten Commandements Preaching on the Lords day and great days and Catechising in the afternoon the Sacrament of the Altar and Baptisme But no persecution to any dissenting and to all such as to the Walloons free Chapels and to punish all as seditious and for contempt as bitterly rail and condemn others of the contrary for this argument or perswasion of Religion Ceremonies or Church-Discipline should be acted in mildenesse love and charity and gentle language not to