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.
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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.
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London :: Printed by T. Milbourn, and sold by the book-sellers of London and Westminster,
1672.
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Its Commodities.
The Commodities which this
Countrey doth,* 1.1 and may produce,
are Wines, Oyls, Silk, (Mulberry-Trees
growing in great abundance
in the Woods) Cotton, Indico, Gin∣ger,
Tobacco, &c. And it is be∣lieved,
that here may be made of
the three first Commodities, viz.
Wines, Oyl, and Silk, such great
abundance, to theirs, and this
descriptionPage 129
Kingdoms enrichment, that be∣sides
what we shall use our selves,
we may have wherewith to furnish
Forrain Parts.