Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	degree_n	latitude_n	minute_n	5,380	5	11.8773	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45540	A description of the last voyage to Bermudas, in the ship Marygold, S.P. commander by J.H ... ; begun November the twelfth, 1670, and ending May the third, 1671 with allowance.	J. H. (John Hardy)	1671 (1671)	Wing H706; ESTC R9916	11,064	37

ground in which there be Deep holes with water though no one can see A passage for it in Which dreadful Lakes Some sort of Fish do for their Refuge take Beside the foresaid Fish with (p) The Grains are like an English Prong grains they strike The horned Cuckold Cunny and one like The prickled Hedge-Hog Angel-fish by light They carry in their Boats in darkest nights And Groopers too none of the meanest size Which salted they do send for Merchandize To the West-Indian Islands with their Beef Which yields the Inhabitants there much relief Here in the time of year the (q) The Whales here though they be of an indifferent large size the Gills are not above one or two foot long at most from whence the Whale-bone comes some say that Sperma Ceti is the Spawn others think that it lies in the head but it is certainly found to be the fat of the Whale for being put into a Lamp and burned it will turn to Sperma Ceti which several in the West-Indies have proved to be true that after the Oleus part is consumed the substance call'd vulgarly Sperma Ceti remains mighty Whale Appears upon the Coast who with his Tayl Small Boats can over-set out of whose Nose Hogsheads of water gushes when he blows Which being seen on Land in Boats they haste Towards him and their Lances sharp make fast In his fat sides who being hurt along The Boats draw with him dangerous Rocks among Changing the water with his purple gore To red which of a pale green was afore Tyring himself till at the last to Death He stoops and roaring yieldeth up his breath When into Harbor near unto the shore Being tow'd they cut him up themselves to store With Oyl out of his Blubber which they burn In Lamps and unto other uses turn It on occasion but this sort of Fish Is not the same for which they all do wish No Whale Bones in its Gill or in its Head No Soveraign Sperma Ceti here is bred The difference lying others mouths are fill'd With rowes of Teeth whereas this none doth yield Here 's also Sharks whose head affords a Gelly Good for the Cholick and gripes of the Belly (r) Sharks are here in abundance whose Back-bone looks most like a Japan and its wide mouth stands so that he is fain to take his Prey lying on his back in the cavity of his head there is a substance which being dry'd is good for abundance of Diseases but more especially for Gripes and easy bringing women to Bed which the Inhabitants have approved even to admiration when all things else have fail'd Being dry'd and powder'd this same Fish they take As well as Whales Oyl of his fat to make Besides these many more Fishes are found About the main Land being compass'd round With four hundred small Islands rather more Some one some two Miles distance from the shore And now to write a little of the State Of this same Land its Climate's temperate Which doth produce long Life and its degree Abating thirty Minutes (Å¿) It 's Latitude is 32 Degrees 30 Minutes and it's Longitude 316 Degrees thirty three Is found for Latitude and some men say Three hundred and sixteen Degrees make way From the Azores to it to incline By way of Longitude unsearched Line A Governor there is who 's always sent By th' Honoured Company to the intent To put in force whatever they think fit T' nact for good when in the Court they sit Their Judges Justices of Peace and Shrief Constables Marshals Bayliffs who relieve The oppress'd and there 's Captains who delight Themselves in Arms with daring Foes to fight But I forget the Ministers who preach In Churches where young Children some do teach But cease my Muse for no man can unlock This Rock of Wonders or this wondrous Rock Which though but two Miles broad and twenty long At most it framed is so mighty strong By Art and Nature none but them who see Can think that such a place in the world to be If Armies come against it they may rest Free from all fears if Treason in their Brest Do not lie lurking But behold the Ship Which for to fill our Seamen will not slip Any occasion But with Cedars Chest And Ravens-foot Tobacco in (t) Ravensfoot Tobacco call'd so from its blackness and brightness a common Proverb amongst them for the better Stowage them prest The Ship 's Hold fills but whatsoever be In Cask to stow between Decks they agree And now the Ship 's near full we all prepare Our selves for going homeward some take care For Fowls fat Hogs Corn and Potatoes sweet Oranges Limes and Lemmons for to eat With our Provision homewards some do think Of Sugar and of Liquor for to drink In time of need but all of us take care Our Cabbins with Oranges filled are Others of Rarities which in the Sea Grows such as Feathers Black-rods Coral be Provide themselves to give unto a friend Which when arrived they unto them send Homeward bound Voyage THE Ship now quite full and a Western Gale The Anchors being up now fills her Sail When that the glorious Raies of the bright Sun Through one Sign of the Zodiack had not run The Pilot at the Boltsprit (u) Pilot stands at the Boltsprit end because there is no Land-marks and he cuns the Ship in by the Rocks under water luffing for one and bearing up for another they usually chuse to Pilot them in or out at the Suns rising or setting because then the Sun hath the least reflexion end doth stand Giving from thence the strict Word of Command For Port or Starboard which he thinks most fit Her over the Sharp-pointed Rocks to get The Castles at our parting once again We do salute while by them to the Main A Mile or two from Shore we softly hie Trimming our Sails on purpose to lie by Unbending Cables we our Anchors stow And hoise our Boats in then away we go Our Course for East North-East we bravely steer The wind North-West is and the weather cleer So Marches twenty second about Night Of Summers Island we did lose the sight But we not sail'd a days time at the least The Wind it came unto the East South-east We tack about and to the Northward stand Where as they say the West-Winds have command Most of the year but we it found not so For East South East and South Winds over blow Putting us by out Sayls we lie a hull The briny Waves her almost filling full Upon our upper Decks where above Hens And Ducks with Turkeys are shut up in Pens Which was for fresh Provision in store Of these are drown'd in four hours or more Full sixty seven but at the length we find The Storms to asswage its fury and the wind To cease a little so again we set Our Courses reefed till the Seas do get Abated which are grown so vast and high They