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 on their coasts: the trade, winds, the North-west passage, and the commerce of the English nation, as they were all in the year 1649. Faithfully described for information of such of his countrey as desire intelligence of these perticulars. By George Gardyner of Peckham, in the country of Surrey Esq.
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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 on their coasts: the trade, winds, the North-west passage, and the commerce of the English nation, as they were all in the year 1649. Faithfully described for information of such of his countrey as desire intelligence of these perticulars. By George Gardyner of Peckham, in the country of Surrey Esq.
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Gardyner, George.
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London :: Printed for Robert Leybourn, and are to be sold by Thomas Pirrepoint, at the Sun in S. Pauls Churchyard,
1651.
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"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 on their coasts: the trade, winds, the North-west passage, and the commerce of the English nation, as they were all in the year 1649. Faithfully described for information of such of his countrey as desire intelligence of these perticulars. By George Gardyner of Peckham, in the country of Surrey Esq." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A85806.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 18, 2024.
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CHAP. 5. Martins Vineyard.
THe next Island that is seated is Martins Vineyard. It is a small Island on the coast of New England, and the Governour is appointed by the Councill of Boston, the chief government, in New England; It is 20 miles long, and 10 broad: And upon it are forty English fa∣milies, with divers peaceable Indi∣ans, that live by hunting and fish∣ing.
The soil is rocky, but affordeth some English grain, and Virginia Corn. They have no Commerce, but with the Indians of the Mayn, for skins of Bever, &c. And some little Corn they send to Boston. There is great plenty of Fish on
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the Coast, which they procure the Indians to catch them at an easie rate.
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