CHAP. 7. The Bermudas, or So∣mers Islands.
THis Island lyeth distant from the Main 200 leagues, in 33 degrees, and 20 minutes. It is 20 miles long, and something more then two miles in breadth. And
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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temperate in relation to heat and cold, but violent in the blustring winds, which often haunteth their coasts, but a most wholsome place to live in, and wel replenished with our Nation, that live there with∣out want, for there is store of Milet or Virginia Corn, and Potatoes, di∣vers sorts of fruits, as Muskmelons, Water-melons, Figs, Plants, Pa∣pans, Limons, Oranges & Limes: Plenty of flesh, as Turkeys, Hens, Pork and Beef, and on the Coast much Fish. The Commodity they yearly export, is some Tobacco of the worst sort, Beef, and Pork.
The Spanish wracks that often happens on their Coast, furnisheth them with pieces of eight. And the best sort have their Negro Slaves to work for them.
This Iland is almost surrounded with rocks and shelves, but on the South-side is an open road, and to∣ward the East end a good harbour, but
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hard to hit, without an Islander for Pilot. When you first marke the Island, it appears as a Rock in the Sea, going almost right up a a great way from the water, and it hath a delightfull aspect, but 'tis little better then a Rock, there be∣ing but two foot of mould on the greatest part of it, under which, there is a kind of hard substance, much like pumistone.