Volume 1

Travels and works of Captain John Smith, President of Virginia, and Admiral of New England / edited by Edward Arber.

  • John Smith
Date:
1910
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Travels and works of Captain John Smith, President of Virginia, and Admiral of New England / edited by Edward Arber. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    NEW ENGLANDS T rials. Ew England is a part of America betwixt [1614] the degrees of 41. and 45. the very W-wgsz, meane betwixt the N orth Pole and the 70 '93' Line. From 43. to 45. the coast is moun¬ tainous, rockie, barren and broken lies that make many good harbours. The water is deepe close to the shoare; there are many riuers and fresh springs : few Saluages, but an incredible aboundance of fish, fowle, wilde fruits, and good timber. From 43. to 41. and halfe, an excellent mixed coast of stone, sand, and clay : much corne, many people, some lies, many good harbours, a temperate ayre, and therein all things necessarie for the building [of] ships of any proportion, and good merchandize for their fraughts; within a square of twelue leagues 25. harbours I sounded, thirtie seuerall Lordships I sawe, and so neare as I could imagine, three thousand men. I was vp one riuer fortie miles, crossed the mouths of many, whose heads are reported to be great Lakes ; where they kill their Beuers; inhabited with many people, who trade with those of New England, and them of Cannada.