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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85818	A true description of Carolina	Gascoyne, Joel, b. 1650.	1682 (1682)	Wing G284; ESTC R232077	4,975	5

A true DESCRIPTION OF CAROLINA CArolina is part of the Main in America and so much celebrated by Monsieur Laudonere that he entitles it Florida because of her florid and fragrant Fields imbellish'd with Flowers that perfume the Air whose sweet Scituations by reason of most delicious and pleasant Meadows and flourishing Savana's adorn the Continent and whose benevolent Breast sends daily Supplies to the Planter and hourly Relief to the poor and necessitous Native whose spacious Arms as if circulating the Ocean proclaims her Shores Sanctuary to distressed Mariners and a generous protection to deplorable Seamen that sollicit refreshment from her replenish'd Harbours which extend themselves southward to the River St. Mattheo so dilates to Luck Island near Roanoack on the promontories of Virginia in thirty six degrees North Latitude now called Albemarle a large and spacious settlement consisting of some two or three thousand Inhabitants upon a fertil Soil But the late and flourishing settlement lies yet more Southerly in and about 32 Degrees odd Minutes parallel with Jerusalem in Palestine and equals the heighth of Bermudos upon the navigable Rivers of Cooper and Ashly formerly known by the Names of Wando and Kiawah This is that famous Carolina which his Majesty the King of Great Britain has united to his Imperial Crown and by his Royal Grant established it a Province and has dignified it a Principality which by consent amongst the Lords is transferr'd to the eldest Proprietor But the Proprietors are eight in number and their Names and Titles as followeth Lord Chancellor Clarendon Lord Duke Albemarle Earl of Craven Lord Anthony Ashly Cooper Earl of Shaftsbury John Lord Berkley Sir George Carteret Sir William Berkley and Sir John Colleton Kt. and Bar. These are the Lords Proprietors whose Laws and Government because to proceed in my Description is suspended till farther Opportunity presents to usher them in The Heavens shine upon this famous Country the soveraign Ray of health and has blest it with a serene Air and a lofty Skie that defends it from noxious Infection nor is there any known Distemper incident to the Inhabitant whereby to terrify and affright him who for the most part lives by the Law of Plenty extended to the utmost limits of Sanity Several Families have transported themselves from the Ports of Barbadoes but what from the rest of the Caribbies I know not yet am credibly inform'd and from very good hands that divers are gone and going from thence as also from New-Providence Bermudus New-York New-Jersey New-England Long-Island De-la-ware Maryland and Virginia but great numbers from Scotland and several from the borders of Ireland besides divers good Ships with some eminent Families that are lately gone off from the Kingdom of England Moreover it s a salubrious Air to the sick and diseased and a generous retirement to necessitous and abject Families as also the assurance of such as study to be rich Engins strong enough one would think to induce Mankind to hope the prosperity of this famous Settlement But the settlement of Albemarle otherwise called Roanoak presents first to our view and is the oldest and remotest Northern County in the fair Province of Carolina scituated about 35 Degrees and odd Minutes North Latitude from whose replenished Meadows as also from the more Southern Inhabitants as good Beef and Pork is saved and sent off to Barbadoes and other the Charibbee Islands as Art and Industry can husband Now Ashley County is yet more southward and lies scituated 32 degrees 45 minutes where the Setlers and Inhabitants toil not in Summer to accommodate themselves with Winter's Provision because hitherto they have considered it useless and altogether unnecessary for the Planter to employ his Hands and Strength where Nature so liberally stocks them with Herbage and the Winter because so softned with a moderate Air represents it much of the cast and temperament with our March in England and that 's as much as to consider it the relique only of a mild and short Winter or rather the surprizal of an approaching Spring that breaths forth to iniciate the Summer And here it is that their Ships are built and drest up by Bermudian hands the most approved Mariners and a general Errour if not the best navigating Ships in America And now by way of Advice the first thing requisit and necessary for the Setler to embrace is to fell Timber and to clear the Ground which is reasonably undertaken as by an Advertisement in the last Paragraph as some already have done and planted Potatoes the Cassaida Root Yams Eddies Carrots Cabbidges Onyons Turnips Parsnips Shelots but they grow naturally there Collyflowers Artichokes Musk-Melons and Water-Melons besides Wormwood Nep Scurvy-grass Rue Meadsweet Trefoil Cinquefoil Elecampane Annis Cububs and Cardamome Seeds Radishes and Horse-Radishes Mellelot Angellica Arch-Angel Rosemary Thime Lettice Spinage Sweetmarjarum Summer and Winter Savory Endive Succory Hopps Water-Cresses Cena and China-Root with other Druggs and Saxafrage Sassafras and Sassaperrilla besides divers other Vegitables without number Moreover all sorts of English Grane as Wheat Rye Barley Peas Beans Oates Lentills Fitches and Indian Corn with other European and American Roots and Plants which Carolina beyond dispute with small industry will produce as large and as good as the World has The next thing worthy our consideration is their plentiful Eating because having their accommodation very cheap within themselves where Beef two years since was sold at 12 s. a 100 and Pork at the rate of 16 s. So that Cattel you may read begins to be plentiful and Hoggs of a prodigious encrease And most of those Cattel very fair and large-headed Beasts now grazing up and down in beautiful Savana's little or nothing inferiour to our English Meadows there are several industrious Setlers and Planters that prosper very well tho not having much to begin with Moreover there are Barrows which by reason of the superabundant plenty of Mast and Roots in those parts that some have weighed three or four hundred weight a-piece and such had the Lady Yeomans as I am credibly informed who had 400 Hoggs in a Herd and 500 Turkies in a Drove besides Dunghil Fowls too numerous to relate without suspition And which Plantation of hers consisting of 1500 Acres was by the industry of one Mr. James Moore an English Gentleman cleared from Charge in some three years time and with the natural produce of the Country only which amplifies the great fertility of the 〈◊〉 ●●gether with the encrease of Beef and Pork which if well saved and sent off to 〈◊〉 as some has already been sent to Barbadoes must of necessity bring in consider●●●● 〈◊〉 Upon Honey some have strong Inclinations when because having such variety and Blossoms that invites to accommodate the Laborious Bee where as b● 〈◊〉 they become so prolifick as frequently to swarm four times in a year and such ●●crease from one single Hive brought over from Bermudus tho half of them wer● 〈…〉 that within less than