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 ...
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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 ...
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- Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.
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- London :: Printed for Robert Clavel, Thomas Passenger, William Cadman, William Whitwood, Thomas Sawbridge, and William Birch,
- 1670.
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Contents
- title page
- THE DESCRIPTION OF VIRGINIA, AND THE PLANTATION OF THE ENGLISH.
- A DESCRIPTION OF THE BERMUDAS, OR Sommers Islands: THE FIRST DISCOVERY, AND PLANTATION of it by the ENGLISH.
-
Nevv-England Described,
AND THE
PLANTATION
THEREOF BY THE
ENGLISH
- The Beasts be as followeth.
- Of Beasts living in the Water.
- Of the Birds, and Fowls both of Land and Water. They are ex∣pressed in these Verses.
- OF FISH.
- Shell-fish of all sorts.
- A Description of the Plantations in New-England as they were Anno Christi, 1633.
- Of the Evils, and Hurtful things in the Plantation.
- Of the Natives inhabiting those parts of New-England.
- Of their Diet, Cookery, Meal-times and Hospitality.
- Of their Dispositions, good Qualities, as Friendship, Constancy, Truth, and Affability.
- Of their Hardness.
- Of their wondering at their first sight of any new Invention.
- Of their Kings Government, and Subjects obedience.
- Of their Marriages.
- Of their Worship, Invocations, and Conjurations.
- Of their Wars.
- Of their Huntings.
- Of their Fishings.
- Of their Arts and Manufactures.
- Of their Death, Burials, and mournings.
- Of their Women, their Dispositions, Imployments, Vsage by their Husbands, their Apparel, and Modesty.
- New Englands Prospect. Of their Religion.
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THE
DESCRIPTION
OF THE
ISLAND
OF
BARBADOS:
With an Account of the
Trees, Plants, Herbs, Roots, Fowls, Birds, Beasts,
Fishes, Insects, &c. As also of their Sugar-Canes, In∣genio's
and manner of making their Sugars.
- Of their Bread.
- Of their Drink.
- Three sorts of Meat.
- Of their Fish.
- Of The Quelquechoses.
- Of their several sorts of Timber.
- Of their Stone.
- Of their Servants and Slaves.
- Of their great Fires.
- Of their Beasts and Cattel.
- Of their Birds and Fowls.
- Of Snakes and Insects.
- Now for Trees.
- Of Plants.
- Red Pepper.
- How they Plant their Sugar-Canes.
- WITHS.
- An Ointment foor a burn or Scald, thus,
- Herbs, and Roots.
- The strength of the Island.
- Their Laws and Government.
- Their Weather.
- Negroes Heads.
- TAR.
- PITCH, and MOVNTIACK.
- An Excellent REMEDY Against the STONE.
-
EXAMPLES
OF THE
Wonderful Works
OF
GOD
IN THE
CREATURES.
- CHAP. I.
- CHAP. II.
- CHAP. III.
- CHAP. IV.
- CHAP. V.
- CHAP. VI.
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CHAP. VII.
- Glasses malleable.
- Stone-henge Described.
- Mausolus his Tombe Described.
- The Mausolaea hanging in the skie, the men of Caria's praises Deifie.
- Porsennah's Tomb Described.
- The first Invention of Printing.
- The most famous Printers were.
- The first Invention of Guns.
- A Description of the situation of Utrecht in the Low-Countries.