§. 4. Nova Scotia.
WHICH Country (first discover'd by Sebastian Cabot, at the Charge of Henry the Seventh) was once inhabited by a Scotch Colony, sent over Anno 1622. by Sir William Alexander [then Lord Secretary of Scotland] to whom King James by Letters-Patent made a Donation thereof; but that Colony failing, the French be∣came Masters of the Country, and settled themselves therein, calling it by the Name of Accadie.
But leaving these Northern Parts of Terra Canadensis, as Countries little known, and of less Note unto us: Proceed we to that which more nearly concerns us, viz. a particular View of the various Parts of the Western English Empire; and that according to their Order, as they lie in the foregoing Table. The first whereof is