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saint_n	lie_v	north_n	south_n	1,718	5	10.2022	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07216	A briefe discourse of the Nevv-found-land with the situation, temperature, and commodities thereof, inciting our nation to goe forward in that hopefull plantation begunne.	Mason, John, 1586-1635.	1620 (1620)	STC 17616; ESTC S109928	7,050	16

A BRIEFE DISCOVRSE of the Nevv-found-land with the situation temperature and commodities thereof inciting our Nation to goe forward in that hopefull plantation begunne Scire tuum nihil est nisi te scire hoc sciat alter EDINBVRGH Printed by Andro Hart. 1620. TO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFVLL SIR IOHN SCOTT of Scots-Tarvet KNIGHT c. SIR you are like to haue none other accompt for the present than such as Marchant-Factors after bad markets returne that is papers for paymēt for liuers lines The which though not so acceptable as more solide returnes yet giues some satisfactiō for the expenses of time questionable I haue sent you a discourse of our Countrie penned at the request of friends for the better satisfaction of our Nobilitie vnpolished and rude bearing the countries badge where it was hatched onely clothed with plainnesse and trueth I intreat your fauourable acceptation thereof as your wonted clemencie hath beene to the Author if you thinke it may doe good by incouraging any of your Countrie to the interprise I am willing you publish it other wise let it bee buried in silence as you shall thinke meetest and esteeme mee still one of whome you haue power to dispose IOHN MASON To the Reader FOR as much as there bee sundrie relations of the New-found-land and the commodities thereof Some too much extolling it some too much debasing it preferring the temperature of the aire there of before ours the hopes of commodities there without paines and mineralles as if they were apparent which as I deny to bee a veritie yet I affirme not to bee impossible with other narrations dissenting from the trueth the which although done out of a good affection yet had they better beene vndone I haue therefore gentle Reader hoping of thy fauourable construction set downe in few and plaine tearmes out of that experience I haue gained in three yeares and seuenth monthes residence there the trueth as thou shalt finde by proofe thereof to the which I recommend thee and vs all to his Grace that is able and will plant those that feare him in a better Kingdome Farewell Thine and his Countries in part not whollie his owne IOHN MASON A BRIEF DISCOVRSE of the Newfoundland with the Situation temperature and commodities thereof inciting our Nation to goe forward in that hopefull plantation begunne THE Countrie commonly knowne and called by the name of Newfoundland albeit it is so much frequented and resorted yearely to by thousands of our Nation and others which haue scarcely so much as a superficiall knowledge thereof onely so much as concerneth their fishings excepted is an Iland or Ilands as some plats haue described it situate on the front of America betwixt 46. and 52. degrees of Northerly latitude of the bignes of Ireland the Eastermost side thereof bounded with the Ocean extendeth it selfe nearest North and South the variation allowed 100. Leagues the south face deuided from the Iles of Cap. Bretone by the Gulfe of Sainct Lowrence a straight of 27. Leagues ouer lyeth West and by North northerly and East and by South Southerly in length 77. Leagues on the West part imbraced by the Grand-bay stretching it selfe Northeast and Southwest 75. Leagues and on the North confined by the Norther arme of the Grand-bay which separateth it from the continent of Noua Francia making a fret of 7. Leagues wide is described by the Rhombe of W. and by North and E. and by S. 25. Leag Almost of a Triangular forme sauing that many bays Inlets making incroachment haue disfigured the face therof with Scars eating into the land into 40 leagues space on the South part where we haue searched 30 as good Harbours as the world affords The longitude thereof reackoned from the westermost part of the Insulae fortunatae is 330 degrees distant in the Line of West by the South from our Meridian 45. degrees by cōmon account which in the midle parallell of the differēce the Latitude betwixt the lāds end of England the bodie of Newfoundland at 39. one halfe miles answerable to each degree in the same maketh 1764. miles or 588 Leagues The aire subtle wholesome the Summer season pleasant conforme to the like latitude in Europe sauing that the woodie places in Iune Iulie are somewhat pestered with small Flies bred of the rottenes of ruined woode moysture like as in Russia The Winter degenerating therfrom being as cold snowy as 60 degrees in Europe of the like temperature in December Ian. Febr. March as the northermest parts in Scotland viz. The Hebrides and the Orcades wherin I haue twise wintered or of the Coast betwixt Hamburgh the mouth of the Sownd or Nose of Norway yet more comfortable for the length of the day in Winter which exceedeth theirs three houres at the least And albeit it be thus cold in the Winter season by accidentall meanes contrarie to the naturall position thereof in the Spheare yet is it tollerable as by experience so that there needs no Stoaues as in Germanie Likewise fruitefull enough both of Sommer and Winter corne an example for our comfirmation thereof we haue in Poland one of the greatest corne Countries of Europe yet as cold and subject to freizing as Newfoundland as also our owne experience both in Wheate Rye Barlie Oates and Pease which haue growen and ripened there as well and al 's timely as in Yorkshire in England And for grouth of Garden herbes of diuers sorts as Hysope Time Parsely Clarie Nepe french Mallowes Buglosse Collombines Wormewood c. There is at this present of 3. yeares old of my sowing likewise Rosemary Fenell Sweete marierim Bassell Purselyn Lettise and all other Herbes Rootes as torneps Pasnepes Caretts and Radishes we haue found to growe well there in the Sommer season The common wild herbes of the Countrie are Angelica Violets Mints Scabius Yarrow Ferne Salsaparilla with diuers other sorts whereof I am ignorant But suppose would for variety and rariety compose another Herball of these kinds wee haue only made vse of certain great green leaues plētifully growing in the woods and a great Roote growing in fresh water ponds both good against the Skiruye and an other prettie Roote with a blew stalke and leaues of the nature of a Skirret growing in a dry Beachy ground good meate boyled The Countrie fruites wild are cherries small whole groaues of them Filberds good a small pleasant fruite called a Peare Damaske Roses single very sweet excellēt Straberries and Hartleberries with aboundance of Rasberries and Gooseberries somewhat better than ours in England all which replanted would be much inlarged There is also a kinde of wild Coranies wild Pease or Feetches in many places which we haue both found good meat and medecine for the Skiruy The Land of the North parts most mountanye woodye very thick of Firre trees Spruce Pine Lereckhout Aspe Hasill a kinde of stinking wood the three formest goodly Timber and most conueniēt for Building No Oakes