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
Blome, Richard, d. 1705., Lynch, Thomas, Sir, d. 1684?
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Its Scituation.
It is seated in the North Lati∣tude of 13 degrees,* and 20 min. and although but of a small circuit, (being accounted not above 8 Leagues in length, and 5 in breadth where broadest, being of an Oval Form) yet is it a potent Colony, being able as occasion requireth, to arm 10000 Fighting men, which, with the strength that nature hath bestowed on it, it is able to bid defiance to the stoutest Foe, ha∣ving been several times (but in vain) assaulted by the Spaniards.
