Volume 1

A paradox. Prooving, that the inhabitants of the isle called Madagascar, or St. Laurence, (in temporall things) are the happiest people in the world. Whereunto is prefixed a ... description of that island: the ... climate, and condition of the inhabitants, and their speciall affection to the English ... With most probable arguments of a hopefull and fit plantation of a colony there, in respect of the fruitfulnesse of the soyle, the benignity of the ayre, and the relieving of our English ships, both to and from the East Indies / [Walter Hamond].

  • Walter Hamond
Date:
1640
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Credit: A paradox. Prooving, that the inhabitants of the isle called Madagascar, or St. Laurence, (in temporall things) are the happiest people in the world. Whereunto is prefixed a ... description of that island: the ... climate, and condition of the inhabitants, and their speciall affection to the English ... With most probable arguments of a hopefull and fit plantation of a colony there, in respect of the fruitfulnesse of the soyle, the benignity of the ayre, and the relieving of our English ships, both to and from the East Indies / [Walter Hamond]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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