CHAP. 21. Antego, Margelante, Dominica, Matinina Santalusa, Gardelupa, Dodos sanctos, Deseada.
ANtego lyeth between 14 and 15 degrees. It hath a good
A description of the new world, or, America, islands and continent and by what people those regions are now inhabited, and what places are there desolate and without inhabitants, and the bays, rivers, capes, forts, cities and their latitudes, the seas by George Gardyner ...
About this Item
- Title
- A description of the new world, or, America, islands and continent and by what people those regions are now inhabited, and what places are there desolate and without inhabitants, and the bays, rivers, capes, forts, cities and their latitudes, the seas by George Gardyner ...
- Author
- Gardyner, George.
- Publication
- London :: Printed for Robert Leybourn and are to be sold by Thomas Pirrepoint ...,
- 1651.
- Rights/Permissions
-
This text has been selected for inclusion in the EEBO-TCP: Navigations collection, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. To the extent possible under law, the Text Creation Partnership has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this keyboarded and encoded edition of the work described above, according to the terms of the CC0 1.0 Public Domain Dedication ( http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). This waiver does not extend to any page images or other supplementary files associated with this work, which may be protected by copyright or other license restrictions. Please go to http://www.textcreationpartnership.org/ for more information.
- Link to this Item
-
http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A42314.0001.001
- Cite this Item
-
"A description of the new world, or, America, islands and continent and by what people those regions are now inhabited, and what places are there desolate and without inhabitants, and the bays, rivers, capes, forts, cities and their latitudes, the seas by George Gardyner ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A42314.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
Pages
Page 76
air, and is planted by the English with Tobacco, Indico, Cotton∣wool, and Sugar. It lyeth ueer unto Gardelupia, and Dodos Sanctos on which there lives some French with the Canibals, which are in great numbers on these two Ilands. The Deseada is six leagues to the Gardelupia in 14 degrees and a half, seated by the Canibals Margalante, is five leagues from Dominique, and seated by the Canibals, with French amongst them. Dominica lyeth in 13 degrees, and is 12 leagues in length. It hath good Roads, and watting places, but in danger of the Canibals, that are the Lords of this Iland, with whom the French live in peaceable manner. And neer Dominica, is Matinina and Sancta Lusia, which is 14 degres 20 minutes, and both possest by Canibals.