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A28392	A Description of the island of Jamaica with the other isles and territories in America, to which the English are related ... : taken from the notes of Sr. Thomas Linch, Knight, governour of Jamaica, and other experienced persons in the said places : illustrated with maps / published by Richard Blome.	Blome, Richard, d. 1705.; Lynch, Thomas, Sir, d. 1684?	1672 (1672)	Wing B3208; ESTC R7437	42,330	208

care for the time to come He further saith that they are much addicted to Mirth and Dancing they are also much prone to Honour and Valour which they place above all other Vertues which doth occasion them to be so continually engaged against one another in Wars and that side which Fortune Crowneth with Victory Triumphal Jollaties are performed by them The Countrey he saith is divided into several petty Kingdoms and the People in the one keep no good Correspondence with those that border upon them and on the least occasion wage War one against another In this Countrey of Carolina he saith that there are several Indian Towns which are generally the Habitation of the King that commands the Territory The Proprietors of Carolina This Province or Countrey of Carolina was first Possessed by the English about the year 1660 and became a Proprietorship which his present Majesty K. Charles the Second granted by Patent to the Right Noble George Duke of Albemarle Earl of Torrington Baron Moncke of Potheridge Peachampe and Teys Knight of the Noble Order of the Garter Captain General of his Majesties Land-Forces and one of the Lords of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council c. The Right Honourable Edward Earl of Clarendon Viscount Cornbury and Baron Hide of Hendon c. The Right Honourable William Earl of Craven Viscount Craven of Uffington Baron Craven of Hamsted-Marshal Lord Lieutenant of the County of Middlesex and Borouh of Southwark and one of the Lords of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council c. The Right Honourable John Lord Berkley Baron Berkley of Stratton Lord Lievtenant of Ireland for his Majesty c. The Right Honourable Anthony Lord Ashley Baron Ashley of Winbourn St. Giles Chancellour of the Exchequor under-Treasurer of England one of the Lords Commissioners of the Treasury and one of the Lords of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council c. The Honourable Sr. George Carteret of Hawnes in Bedfordshire Baronet Vice-Chamberlain of his Majesties Houshold and one of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council c. Sr. William Berkley of in the County of Knight and Baronet and to Sr. John Colleton of London Knight and Baronet and to their Heirs and Successors And the said Lords proprietors having by their Patent power to establish a Government and make Lawes for the better Regulation thereof and the inviting of Inhabitants have formed a Model which by the general consent of all the Proprietors was drawn up by the Right Honourable the Lord Ashley a person of great Worth and Prudence whose knowledg in matters of State and the Settlement of a Government is sufficiently praise worthy by all perso●● Which said Model is so well fr●med for the good and welfare 〈◊〉 the Inhabitants that it is estee●ed by all judicious persons withou● compare but the said Model b●ing too long to be set down in th●● small Treatise I must be constra●ned to omit it The Settlements of the English Here are at present two considerable Settlements of the English for so short a time the one at Albemarle-River in the North and the other about the midst of the Countrey on Ashley River which is likely to be the Scale of Trade for the whole Countrey as being scituate very Commodious for Shipping and in a healthful place A DESCRIPTION OF VIRGINIA Its Bounds VIRGINIA particularly now so called hath for its Southern Limits Carolina for its Eastern the Atlantick Ocean for its Northern Mariland and for its Western that vast tract of Land which runneth into the South-Sea It s Name This Countrey was said to b● first discovered by Sr. Franc●● Drake as indeed all this Tract o● Sea-Coast and was so named by Sir Walter Rawleigh a great promoter of this discovery in honou● of Queen Elizabeth who the● Reigned The Settlement of the English Much time was spent in the discovery of this Countrey with vast expences in the setting forth of Ships and not without the great loss o● many a poor wretches life besore it could be brought to perfection but at length through the Industry of Captain John Smith and other worthy persons who took great pains for the advancement of these discoveries fortune began to smile ●n her and about the Reign of King James a Patent was grant●d to certain persons as a Corpora●ion and called the Company of Adventurers of Virginia Afterwards other Patents were granted to them for larger Extents of Land excluded in the former ●ut the said Corporation committing of several and frequent Misdemeanours and Miscarriages the said Patent about the year 1623 was made Nul since which it hath been free for all his Majesties Subjects to Trade into these parts It s Air and Temperature This Countrey is blest with a sweet aud wholesome Air and the Clime of late very agreeable to the English since the clearing o● Woods so that now few dyeth o● the Countreys disease called th● Seasoning The Soyl. It is every where interlaced with delectable Hills and rich Valleys and of a Soyl so Fertile that an Acre of ground commonly yieldeth 200 Bushels of Corn and is very apt to produce what is put therein as English Grains Roots Seeds Plants Fruits c. besides those appropriated to the Countrey and other adjacent parts of America Their Fruits Here are excellent Fruits in great abundance which may be compared with those of Italy or Spain as Apricocks Peaches Mellons Apples Pears Plumbs Cherries Grapes Figgs Pomgranates Quinces Maracocks Puchamines Chesnuts Walnuts Olives Straberries Rasberries Goosberries and Mulberries in great abundance Of their Apples they make Syder of their Pears Perry and of their Grapes Wine Their Roots and Herbs They have several sorts of Roots as Potatoes Carrets Turnips Artichoaks Onyons Cabbages Collyflowers Sparagus c. And most sort of Garden-herbs known to us in great plenty Their Fowles and Birds Here is great plenty of Fowle as wild Turkeys which usually weigh 6 stone Partridges Swans Geese Ducks Teal Widgeons Dotterels Heathcocks Oxeyes Brants Pidgeons Cranes Herons Eagles and several sorts of Hawkes And for small Birds innumerable quantities of sundry sorts as Blackbirds Thrushes Red-birds and above all the Mockbirds which counterfeiteth the notes of all Birds Their Wilde Beasts and Tame Cattle They have great store of wilde Beasts as Lyons Bears Leopards Tygers Wolves and Dogs like Wolves but brake not Buffeloes Elks whose Flesh is as good as Beef Rosconnes Utchunquois Deer Hares Bevers Ottors Foxes Martins Poulcats Wesells Musk-Rats Flying Squirils c. And for Tame Cattle Cowes Sheep Goats Hoggs and Horses in great plenty Their Fish Here is great plenty of Excellent Fish as well in the Sea and Bay of Chesopeack as in the Rivers viz. Cods Thornback Sturgeon Grampuses Porpuses Drums Cat-Fish Basses Sheepsheads which makes broath like that of Mutton Cony-Fish Rock-Fish Creey-Fish White Salmons Mullets Soles Plaice Mackrel Trouts Perches Conger-Eels Herrings Crabs Oysters Shrimps Cockles Muscles

lay the water-side which are no bigger than a Turkeys which they ●over and by the heat of the Sun the young ones are hatched who naturally creep into the water Here are also Muskettoes and Merry-wings a sort of stinging Flies that are troublesome in some parts of the Isle but are seldome found in the English Plantations Their Harbours Roads and Bays This Island abounds with goo● Bayes Roads and Harbours th● Principal amongst which are Port-Royal formerly called Cagway situate on the extream en● of that long point of Land whic● makes the Harbour which is e●ceeding commodious for Shippin● and secured by one of the stronge●● and most considerable Castles th●● his Majesty hath in all Americ● in which are mounted about 6● peeces of Ordnance and is we●● guarded with Souldiers It is land lock't by a point of Land that run 12 miles South-East from the mai● of the Island having the great R●ver that runs by Los Angelos and● St. Jago falling into it where Ship● do commonly water and conven●ently wood The Harbour is 2. or 3. leagues cross in most places and hath every where good Anchorage which is so deep that a Ship of a 1000 Tunn may lay her sides to the shore of the Point and load and unload with planks a Float which commodiousness doth make it to be the most frequented by Men of War and Merchants Ships of any in the Island and as much inhabited by the Merchants Store-house-keepers Vintners Alehouse-keepers being the only noted place of Trade in the Isle and doth contain since the English became Masters of it about 800. Houses being about 12 miles and a half in length and the houses are as dear-rented as if they stood in well-traded Streets in London yet it 's situation is very unpleasant and uncommodious having neither Earth Wood or Fresh-water but only made up of a hot loose Sand and being thus populous and so much frequented as well by Strangers as by the Planters in the negotiation of their Affairs as being the scale of Trade provisions are very dear This Town or Port is seated about 12 miles from the Metrapolitan Town of the Island called St. Jago or St. Jago de la vega or the Spanish Town of which I shall treat anon Port-Morant in the Eastern Point a very Capacious and secure Harbour where Ships do conveniently Wood Water and Ride safe from the Windes and about this place is a potent Colony of the English seated Old-Harbour Westwards from St. Jago a good Bay for Ships to Ride in Point-Negril in the extream Western Point very good and sufficiently convenient and secure to windward in which men of war do often ply when they look for the Spanish Ships whence a little North-west was seated the Old town of Melilla founded by Columbus after the shipwrack there which was the 1st place that the Spaniards setled at and afterwards deserted Port-Antonio seated on the North a very safe land-lock't-Harbour only the coming in is somwhat difficult the Channel being narrowed by a little Island that lies off the mouth of the Port being wholly taken up by the Right Honourable Charles Earl of Carlisle Visc Howard of Morpeth Lord Dacres of Gilsland Lord Lieutenant of the Counties of Cumberland and Westmerland and one of the Lords of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Council c. Here are several other good Bayes and Harbours along the Coast of this Island the names of which are set down in the Map amongst which these are very commodious and good viz. In the South-part Michaels Hole Micary Bay Allegator Pont. Point Pedro. Pallate Bay Lewana Bay Blewfelds Bay Cabaritaes Bay All very good and Commodious Bayes for Ships In the North-part Porto-Maria Ora Cabessa Cold-Harbour Rio-Nova Montega-Bay Orang-Bay All very good Bays for Shipping The Towns There are at present but three Towns of considerable Note in the Island to wit St. Jago or St. Jago de-lavega seated 6 Miles within the Land North-West in a Plaine by a River and about 12. miles from Port-Royal already treated of which makes another of the 3 Towns This town of St. Jago when the Spaniards were Masters of the Isle was a large City and of great Account containing about 2000 Houses and for Divine Worship had 2 Churches 2 Chappels and an Abbey which when the English first took the Isle under the conduct of General Venables were destroyed to about 4 or 500 Houses and its Churches and Chappels to a fewer number those that remained were sufficiently Spoiled and haraced But since the English have made a settlement this Towne is now of considerable account where the Governour resideth and where the chief Courts of Judicature are held which makes it to be well resorted unto and Inhabited so that most of its ruinous Houses are in a faire way of being repaired and in hopes to arrive to a greater largeness then formerly it was here being several fair and well built Houses and the Inhabitants live in great Pleasure where they have their Havana in which the better sort recreate themselves every evening in their Coaches or an horse-back as the Gentry do here in Hide Park Passage seated on the mouth of the River six miles distant from St. Jago and as many from Port-Royal where there are about 20 Houses built for the conveniency of going to Port-Royal and here is a Fort raised by the English the better to secure the same In the time of the Spaniards here were several other Townes which are now of no Account of which said Townes these three following were of most nore viz. Sevilla feared on the North part of the Island once beautified with a Collegiate-Church whose chief bore the title of Abbot amongst whom was Peter Martyr who described the History of the West-Indies by Decates Mellila seated in the North East where Columbus mended his Ships at his return from Veragua where he was neer Ship-wrackt Orista reguards the South-Sea in which are many Rocks and amongst their Banks some Isles as Servavilla Quitosvena and Serrana where Augustin Pedro Serrana lost his Vessel and saved onely himself and here in a solitary and lone Condition passed away 3 Yeares at the end of which time he had the company of a Marriner for 4 Years more that was likewise there Ship-wrackt and also alone saved himself And although there are for the present no more Townes yet the Island is divided into 14 Precincts Divisions or Parishes which are set forth in the Map many of which said Precincts are well Inhabited by the English where they have very good Plantations especially all the southern part from Point-Morant in the East almost to Point-Negrillo in the West so far as the ridge or chain of Mountaines that runneth in the midst of the Isle nor are its northerns Parts especially near unto the Sea without Inhabitants and Plantations though not so thick as South-wardly about St. Jago

It hath for its Bounds on the South Virginia from which it is parted by the River Patowmeck whose Southerly bank divides the Province from Virginia on the East the Atlantick Ocean and Delaware-Bay on the North New-England and New-York formerly part of New-England lying on the East side of Delaware-Bay and on the West the true Meridian of the first fountain of the River of Patowmeck The Bay of Chesopeack giving entrance to Ships into Virginia and Maryland passeth through the heart of this Province and is found Navigable near 200 miles into which falls the Rivers of Patowmeck Patuxent Ann-Arundel alas Severn and Sasquesahanough lying on the West side of the Bay and to the East of the said Bay those of Choptanke Nantecoke Pocomoke and several other Rivers and Rivulets to the great improvement of the Soyl and Beauty of this Province The Countrey of late since the Felling of the Woods and the Peoples accustoming themselves to English Dyet is very healthful and and agreeable to the constitution of the English few now dying at their first coming of the Countreys disease or Seasoning And as to the Temperature of Air the heats in Summer receive such seasonable allayes from gentle breezes and fresh Showres of Rain and the Cold in Winter is of so little durance that the Inhabitants cannot be said to suffer by either The Soyl c. The Countrey is generally plain and even yet rising in some places into small and pleasant Hills which heighten the beauty of the adjacent Valleys The Soyl is Rich and Fertil naturally producing all such Commodities as are in the precedent discourse set down as peculiar to its neighbouring Colony Virginia as all sorts of Beasts and Fowle both Tame and Wild Fish Fruits Plants Roots Herbs Gums Trees Balsomes c. as likewise all Commodities produced by Industry are here found in as great plenty and perfection But the general trade of Maryland depends chiefly upon Tobacco which being esteemed better for a Forreign Market than that of Virginia finds great Vent abroad and the Planters at home in exchange thereof are furnished by the Merchant with all necessaries for himself his House Family and Plantation Their is a Competent stock of ready mony in this Province both of English Forreign and his Lordshipps own Coyne yet their chief way of Commerce is by way of barter or exchange of Commodities which may be judged to be no wayes inconsiderable since 100 sail of Ships from England and the English Plantations have of late Yeares been known to trade thither in one Year The Natives The Natives as to their Complexion Stature Customes Dispositions Laws Religions Apparel Dyet Houses c. are much the same as those of Virginia already treated of being likewise many different Tribes or sorts of People and each Govern'd by their particular King The Government c. of this Countrey This Province of Maryland his Majesty King Charles the first in Anno 1632 granted by Patent to the Right Honourable Caecilius Calvert Lord Baltemore and to his Heires and Assignes and by that Patent created him and them the true and absolute Lords and Propriators of the same saving the Allegiance and Soveraigne Dominion due to his Majesty his Heirs and Successours thereby likewise granting to them all Royal Jurisdictions and Prerogatives both Millitary and Civil as power of enacting Laws Martial Laws making of War and Peace pardoning of Offences Conferring of Honours Coyning of Money c. And in acknowledgement thereof yeilding and and paying yearly to his Majesty his Heires and Successors two Indian Arrows at Windsor Castle in the County of Berks on Easter Tuesday together with the fifth part of all the Gold and Silver Oare that shall be found there For the better inviting of people to settle here his Lordship by advice of the General Assembly of that Province hath long since established a Model of good and wholsome Laws for the ease and benefit of the Inhabitants with tolleration of Religion to all sorts that profess the Faith of Christ which hath been a principal motive to many to settle under that Government rather then in another where liberty of Conscience was denyed them It s division into Countyes This Province where it is peopled with English is severed into 10 Counties to wit 5 Eastwards of Chesopeak Bay as Cecil Dorchester Kent Sommerset and Talbot and 5 westwards of the said Bay as Ann-Arundel Baltemore Calvert Charles and St. Maries And in every one of these Countyes there is held an inferiour Court every two months for small matters from which there lyeth Appeales to the Provincial Court held at St. Maryes Here are likewise certain Magistrates appoynted by his Lordship in each County as Sheriffs Justices of the Peace c. Their Townes The Inhabitants being in number at present about 16000 have begun the building of several Townes which in few Yeares 't is hoped may come to some perfection as Calverton Herrington and Harvy-Town all Commodiously seated for the benefit of Trade and conveniency of Shipping but the principal Town is St. Maryes seated on St. Georges River being beautified with divers well-built Houses and is the cheif place or scale of Trade for the Province where the Governour his Lordships Son and Heir Mr. Charles Calvert hath his House and where the General Assembly and Provincial Courts are held and Publique Offices kept but at present the said Governour doth reside at Mattapany about 8 Miles distant where he hath a fair and pleasant House And for the better assisting the said Governour in matters that concerns the Government of the Province he hath his Council c. A DESCRIPTION OF New-YORK ADjoyning to Mary-Land Northwards is a Colony called New-York from his Royal Highness the Duke of York the Proprietor thereof by grant from his Majesty and is that part of New-England which the Dutch formerly seized and called the New Netherlands It s Fertility c. It is a Countrey of a Rich and Fertile Soyl well watered with Rivers as is Mary-Land already spoken of and is found to produce the same Beasts Birds Fish Fruits Commodities Trees c. and in as great plenty It s Town Here is one very considerable Town first built by the Dutch and called New-Amsterdam which name is now changed to New-York It is well seated both for Trade Security and Pleasure in a small Isle called Mahatan reguarding the Sea made so by Hudsons-River which severeth it from Long-Island which said River is very commodious for Shipping and is about two Leagues broad The Town is large containing about five hundred well-built Houses and for Civil Government it hath a Mayor Alderman a Sheriff and Justices of the Peace for their Magistrates For the further security of this Town here is raised a Fort called James-Fort which is very strong and well Defended and Maintained with Men and Ammunition The Town is Inhabited by the English and Dutch and