The present state of His Majesties isles and territories in America ... with new maps of every place : together with astronomical tables, which will serve as a constant diary or calendar, for the use of the English inhabitants in those islands, from the year 1686 to 1700 : also a table by which ... you may know what hour it is in any of those parts, and how to make sun-dials fitting for all those places.
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- The present state of His Majesties isles and territories in America ... with new maps of every place : together with astronomical tables, which will serve as a constant diary or calendar, for the use of the English inhabitants in those islands, from the year 1686 to 1700 : also a table by which ... you may know what hour it is in any of those parts, and how to make sun-dials fitting for all those places.
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- Blome, Richard, d. 1705.
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- London :: Printed by H. Clark, for Dorman Newman ...,
- 1687.
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"The present state of His Majesties isles and territories in America ... with new maps of every place : together with astronomical tables, which will serve as a constant diary or calendar, for the use of the English inhabitants in those islands, from the year 1686 to 1700 : also a table by which ... you may know what hour it is in any of those parts, and how to make sun-dials fitting for all those places." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A28398.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.
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THE PREFACE TO THE READER.
THE ensuing Discourse contains an Account of the Present State of His Majesties Dominions, on the Coast of America; wherein thou wilt find a considerable Discovery of the growing Greatness of those distant Colonies, which, by the most clement and wise Administration of the Monarchs of Great Britan, have al∣ready arrived to a Figure so Considerable, as may attract the Emulation of the Neigh∣bouring Potentates; the Golden Peru hardly affording so great a Treasure to the Catholick Crown, as these most Flourishing Plantati∣ons produce to the Crown of England. The vast Returns which the Merchants of London, and other Parts of His Majesties Dominions, make from those Parts, are a sufficient En∣couragement for any one that would study the Improvement of his Fortunes, to look into the advantages of that Extensive Traf∣fick
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which those Regions produce. And since our Neighbours have not been wanting (in the most Remote Courts) to represent their Foreign Plantations as vast and mighty Accessions to their Government, and to make their State look the more Considerable in the Eyes of distant Monarchs: Why may not an Essay towards the Delineation of the English Territories in Foreign Parts (at least in some measure) contribute to raise in them an Esteem and Dread of the Mighty Power of the British Crown. Little more need be said to recommend the usefulness of the en∣suing Discourse, but that the natural result of Discoveries, is the Promotion of Improve∣ment, and the Considerate know how to make their Advantages thereof.
There was intended to be added to this Volume, a Summary of the several Laws in Force in each Plantation, but that being a work which will swell to a larger Bulk than this, is reserved for a particular Treatise by it self.
I have one thing more to advertise thee, That the Printer hath neglected to fix the Running-Title on the top of every Page; therefore thou may'st find that part of the Discourse which relates to them in the fol∣lowing Table.
Farewel.