Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	league_n	lie_v	north_n	7,122	5	9.6561	5	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69916	A voyage to the East-Indies giving an account of the Isles of Madagascar, and Mascareigne, of Suratte, the coast of Malabar, of Goa, Gameron, Ormus : as also A treatise of the distempers peculiar to the eastern countries : to which is annexed an abstract of Monsieur de Rennefort's History of the East-Indies, with his propositions for the improvement of the East-India Company / written originally in French by Mr. Dellon ...; Relation d'un voyage des Indes Orientales. English	Dellon, Gabriel, b. 1649.; M. C. Treatise of the distempers relating in particular to the eastern countries.; Crull, J. (Jodocus), d. 1713?; Rennefort, Souchu de, ca. 1630-ca. 1690. Histoire des Indes orientales. English. Selections.; Dellon, Gabriel, b. 1649. Traité des maladies particulières aux pays orientaux et dans la route et de leurs remèdes. English.	1698 (1698)	Wing D943A; ESTC R22348	179,184	326

Town call'd Vera Cruz where is the safest Landing in the whole Island Towards the North on the Sea-side there are three other small Forts and on the South-side another Fort built in the nature of a Castle with round Towers Betwixt the Sea-side and the Town there are two small Forts which defend the Passage that leads to the City There are in the place three Monasteries belonging to the Jacobines Carmelites and Austin Friars as many Nunneries and a Cathedral very handsomly built About two Leagues from Lagona there issues out of a Mountain a very large Spring on both sides of which are very high Trees who by the thickness of their Leaves keep the Sun-beams from heating the Water which is extreamly cool near the Spring The circumjacent Hills were stor'd with Orange Citron and Pomegranate Trees the Fruits of which cover'd the Grounds where they stood on the foot of the Mountain is seen a very pleasant Wilderness near one side of which the Water of the Spring fell from the descent of the Hill with a pleasing noise and gathering below in a Channel run with an easie current for a League and a half thro' the adjacent Plains From hence it was by a large Aqueduct about half a League in length conve●●●d till within two hundred Paces distance of 〈◊〉 which was furnished with fresh Water by 〈◊〉 very large Cisterns with Cocks for the use of the Inhabitants There is also near the City 〈◊〉 a Hill a small Lake surrounded with other Hills where the Cattle belonging to the Inhabitants are furnished with Water The People of Quality in the Isle of Teneriffe are very obliging But the Vulgar are here as all over Spain very proud and lazy there being scarce a Handycrafts-Fellow but what has his great Sword on his side whether at home or abroad and will rather starve at home or at the best rather be contented with Pulse and Roots than to go to fetch it from abroad there being great store of Wild-Fowl here The Women wear Veils but have a way of squinting through it with one eye Their Wheat is not unlike the Turkey Wheat The Products of Teneriffe Malvasier Wine they have in great plenty A whole Pipe cost commonly not above twenty Ducats They pay seventeen Reals for Custom when it is exported so that in all it does not amount to above fourscore and nine French Livers A Pipe containing four hundred and fourscore pints of Paris measure which is above a hundred English Gallons They have here great plenty of Money for which reason your Foreign Merchants Trade hither with very great advantage The chief Commodities to be vended here are Swords Pistols Knives Combs Cloths Clokes Black and Grey Broad Hats Ribons and Linen-Cloaths Just opposite to Santa Cruz there is another Harbour which they call La Rota the rest of this Island being environ'd by unaccessable Rocks The Famous Picque of Teneriffe which is two Leagues distant from L●gona is 47812 Feet high The top of it is never without Snow CHAP III. Of the Cities of Fernamboucq and Olinde on the Coast of Brasil THE City of Fernamboucq is built upon a Point of Land having on one side the Ocean and on the other a small branch of the Sea which they call the River Sallee The City of Fernamboucq It s figure is Circular containing not above three hundred edifices which deserve the name of well built houses the rest being rather cottages not above one story high The Parish-Church stands in the Center of the Town There is a small Island which being separated by the abovementioned Branch of the Sea from the City is joyned to it by a long narrow Bridge sustained by forty five Arches whereof some are of Stone the rest of Wood the last are built for the conveniency of the Tide and the first to serve as a solid foundation of the whole Fabrick It is called St. Anthony's Island it contains about a hundred Houses besides three Monastries one belonging to the Recollects which is a fine structure the other to the Jefuits and the third to the French Capucines There is all along the Coast of Brasil a vast tract of Rocky Mountains which run all along the Southern Coast of America even as far as the Streights of Magellan being above seven hundred Leagues in length They are called the Recif in their Language This Congeries of Mountains has its large Breches in several p●aces which most of them make convenient Harbours as all Fernamboq which is counted one of the best Ports in all America At the entrance of this Port you see two very strong Forts Forts near Fernambouq one of which is built upon some of the Rocks of the Recif lying Perpendicular with the surface of the Water at High-Tide Just on the point of Land upon which is the City of Fermambouq opposite to that of the Recif is a Fort-Royal Surrounded with very strong Pallisadoes Two other Forts are Erected on the Land side for the defence of the City one of which lies on the West the other on the South side of the Town About a League and a half North from Fernambouq The City of Olinda is the City of Olinda formerly a very handsome City approaching in bigness to the City of Orleans in France before it was ruined by the Hollanders It was built upon four Hills which afford a very delightful prospect There are as yet remaining a few goodly Houses but the ruins of the old ones are sufficient testimonies of its former lustre The remains upon one of these Hills standing to this day the house belonging to the Jesuits which has cost a Hundred thousand Pounds building Besides which there are several other Monasteries belonging to the Benedictines Capuchines the Carmelites and Grey-Friars CHAP. IV. Of the Isle of Ceylon and the Forts the Dutch are Possess'd of in that Island THE Hollanders have several Colonies in the Isle of Ceylon among which the Cities of Portugal and Colombo are the chiefest The City of Portugal Portugal lies in a very convenient Bay about three Leagues distant from a very high Mountain which appears at Sea in the shape of a Pique like that of Teneriffe and serve● as a guide to the Mariners Near the City is a very regular Fort which defends the entrance of the Harbour To the South of Portugal betwixt that City and Colombo there is another goodly Plantation upon an Eminence near the Sea-side called Barberin About twenty Leagues distant from Portugal is the City of Colombo it 's situate in a very fair plain near the Sea-shore The City of Colombo being surrounded with a vast number of fine Trees which afford a very delightful Prospect Just by is a very large Castle very considerable for its strength Besides which they are Masters of Negombo and Japhnepatan two very considerable Cities and have Fortified all the Western Nothern and Southern Coasts of this Island as for the Eastern parts they have