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A True and Faithful Account of the Four Chiefest Plantations in America

Published: 1670
Length: 61,333 words
Reading: ~4 hours
Divisions: 73

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A true and faithful account of the four chiefest plantations of the English in America to wit, of Virginia, New-England, Bermudus, Barbados : with the temperature of the air, the nature of the soil, the rivers, mountains, beasts, fowls, birds, fishes, trees, plants, fruits, &c. : as also, of the natives of Virginia, and New-England, their religion, customs, fishing, hunting, &c. / collected by Samuel Clarke ...

London Printed for Robert Clavel, Thomas Passenger, William Cadman, William Whitwood, Thomas Sawbridge, and William Birch 1670.

Original spelling, as transcribed by the Text Creation Partnership.

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VirginiaTHE DESCRIPTION OF VIRGINIA, AND THE PLANTATION OF THE ENGLISH.
PartThe Commodities that are in Virginia.
BermudaA DESCRIPTION OF THE BERMUDAS, OR Sommers Islands: THE FIRST DISCOVERY, AND PLANTATION of it by the ENGLISH.
New EnglandNevv-England Described, AND THE PLANTATION THEREOF BY THE ENGLISH

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PartOF FISH.
PartShell-fish of all sorts.
PartA Description of the Plantations in New-England as they were Anno Christi, 1633.
PartOf the Evils, and Hurtful things in the Plantation.
PartOf the Natives inhabiting those parts of New-England.
PartOf their Diet, Cookery, Meal-times and Hospitality.
PartOf their Dispositions, good Qualities, as Friendship, Constancy, Truth, and Affability.
PartOf their Hardness.
PartOf their wondering at their first sight of any new Invention.
PartOf their Kings Government, and Subjects obedience.
PartOf their Marriages.
PartOf their Worship, Invocations, and Conjurations.
PartOf their Wars.
PartOf their Huntings.
PartOf their Fishings.
PartOf their Arts and Manufactures.
PartOf their Death, Burials, and mournings.
PartOf their Women, their Dispositions, Imployments, Vsage by their Husbands, their Apparel, and Modesty.
PartNew Englands Prospect. Of their Religion.
BarbadosTHE DESCRIPTION OF THE ISLAND OF BARBADOS: With an Account of the Trees, Plants, Herbs, Roots, Fowls,…
PartOf their Bread.
PartOf their Drink.
PartThree sorts of Meat.
PartOf their Fish.
PartOf The Quelquechoses.
PartOf their several sorts of Timber.
PartOf their Stone.
PartOf their Servants and Slaves.
PartOf their great Fires.
PartOf their Beasts and Cattel.
PartOf their Birds and Fowls.
PartOf Snakes and Insects.
PartNow for Trees.
PartOf Plants.
PartRed Pepper.
PartHow they Plant their Sugar-Canes.
PartWITHS.
PartAn Ointment foor a burn or Scald, thus,
PartHerbs, and Roots.
PartThe strength of the Island.
PartTheir Laws and Government.
PartTheir Weather.
PartNegroes Heads.
PartTAR.
PartPITCH, and MOVNTIACK.
PartAn Excellent REMEDY Against the STONE.
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PartEXAMPLES OF THE Wonderful Works OF GOD IN THE CREATURES.
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