The Natural: Hiftory of JAMATC A. 
104 
This was in Colon’s fecond Voyage difcover’d in St. Fohns, and E- 
panol a, vit.f. 104. and was found cultivated and good at Ifabella. 1b. f. 106. 
aan Gonzales de Mendoza. ap. Hakl. p. 386. found thefe Vines in New: 
“Mexico, The fame were obferved in Alechuacan by Chilton ap. Hakl. p, 3 
p- 460. and by Hawks ap. Hakl. p. 3. p. 464. about Mexico.” | | 
There are many wild Grapes through the Woods (about Laos} Ga/- 
ar da Cruz. Purchas, lib. 1. p- 169. : 
They went on Land and found goodly Grapes, Hadfon near Cape- 
Cod. Purchas. lib. 3. cap. 16. p. 587. } iu Gil? 9 
Great: Trees and Vines: laden with black Grapes of pleafant Tafte; 
were obferved by Oviedo in his‘Summary, ap..Eden. p..206. and (7b. 8. cap. 
1, Coron, wild in Efpanola, - Oo? Shlicgue OWT 1 vy ews 
Bufhes over-grown with Vines were found by Go/uoll; ap. Smith, Vive. 
.17. in the Ifles to the Northot Virginia. ee 
~ And in Virginia, Smith, p. 26. / NS ¢h 7 
As alfo innumerable in Nova Francia. p. 276: Efcaibot, & p.17. where 
they are, black,: fome fmall, others as big as Plumbs, 70. p. 93. and where 
they know not the Ufe'of Grapes, {pitting them out, 7b. p.97- 
Lopez de Gomara tells us that they are ripe in March in the hot Weft- 
Indes: Hift. Gen. cap, 28. jp P2160 ae 
Jo de Veraxzano, ap. Hakl..p.297- fuppofes that they'may make good 
Wine; the Inhabitants cut away the underBoughs that ‘they may ripen, 
when they efteem them ;-they*grow in 34° N. Lat.andare fweet when 
dryed, Ramnus, p. 42h 
Landonatere, dela Floride, p. 3. ap. Hak. p. 3. p. 305. obferved them in 
Florida, p.4t. bearing Quantity of Fruit, aps Hakl. p, 323. ut 
Thefé Vines were feen along the River of Caaada, with mucli Fruit not 
fo large or fweet as ours, by: facqaes Carriers: 'p: ee p- traiflar. api 
Hakl. Pp: 218. ered nIVviz 7 2HISMOIe ot fo j 13 
Notice is taken inthe firft Voyage to Virginia, ap..Hakt. pi 246. of ins 
credible Numbers of Vinesithere om little aswell: as great!Trees: 
We find: {mall'ahd fowr Grapes’ obferv’d by ‘Harrie, 4p. Plakli p, 268. 
in Virginia, as well-as Grapes which were lufcidus fweet and large. 
Champlain ap. Purchas, p. 1611. takes Notice in Cawada of fair Grapes, 
whofe Ufesare not known,sd. 1615. | 
And.wild tall Vines running up the Trees in Florida by an’. Anonyimas 
Portugalof Elvas,p.66, Parchas. 1540.0 6 8 vi yo Yon 
Something like:this: Water-Wsth was obferved-in Amboina, vis. A Rarity 
it feemeth to me.in Nature, -Ifaw in the Woods of this Hland a Plant, 
or Tree, or neither, or. whether 3 fhal] callhit I know > not, in Sub- 
ftance much like to the Body of our Ivy, in Form like a Halter of 
five or fix Inches, in Length five or- fix Fathoms, bare without 
Sprig or Sprout, the one End faft in the Ground, the other fix’d to 
the, Limb. of a'greati"Tree,!a'Fathom ot better ‘diftant’ from! thé Body 
thereoty.and. fo..perpendicular, ‘that itis very “difputable, whether it 
grows up from the Ground of from the Limb ofthe Tree to the Ground. 
This Rope is of ‘firm: folid Wood, without’ any'Conedvity, and’ yer it 
yieldeth excellent! goodj faiy and’ fweet' Water, and as'trefh as trom 
the Fountain, ‘nor doth icoheréi@ admit ‘of any DiftinGion or Diffe- 
rence, unlefs it be the more: délitate «According to your Companies, cut 
-moreor lefs thereof, diftributing to every ‘one the? Qudntity ‘oP!two 
Foot on thereabouts and they fhall: havefuficitar, for every Piece will 
Tun to: the. Value. of, a Pint: or'thereaboutsy and that in an ‘Inftant;va 
{trange-retrefhing co thofe that: travel tholeyhigh and dry «Mountaias, 
as my felf did find by :good Experience, Fresher bitsiap, Paurthas, bas. cap. 
13 1p. 698. of Ambotna, Dd XXXVI. 
