RICHARD HAKLUYT'S NOTES a.d. 



1578. 

 finde the Olive tree to growe : Then you may be 

 assured of a noble marchandize for this Realme, con- 

 sidering that our great trade of clothing doeth require 

 oyle, and weying how deere of late it is become by 

 the vent they have of that commoditie in the West 

 Indies, and if you finde the wilde Olive there it may 

 be graffed. 



Or if you can find the berrie of Cochenile with which 

 we colour Stammelles, or any Roote, Berrie, Fruite, 

 wood or earth fitte for dying, you winne a notable 

 thing fitte for our state of clothing. This Cochenile is 

 naturall in the West Indies on that firme. 



Or if you have Hides of beasts fitte for sole Lether, 

 &c. It will be a marchandize right good, and the 

 Savages there yet can not tanne Lether after our kinde, 

 yet excellently after their owne manner. 



Or if the soyle shall yeeld Figges, Almonds, Sugar 

 Canes, Quinces, Orenges, Lemonds, Potatos, &c. there 

 may arise some trade and trafiique by Figs, Almonds, 

 Sugar, Marmelade, Sucket, &c. 



Or if great woods be found, if they be of Cypres, 

 chests may be made, if they be of some kinde of trees, 

 Pitch and Tarre may be made, if they be of some 

 other, then they may yeeld Rosin, Turpentine, &c. and 

 all for trade and trafiique, and Caskes for wine and 

 oyle may be made, likewise ships and houses, &c. 



And because trafiique is a thing so materiall, I wish 

 that great observation be taken what every soyle yeeldeth 

 naturally, in what commoditie soever, and what it may 

 be made to yeelde by indevour, and to send us notice 

 home, that thereupon we may devise what meanes may 

 be thought of to raise trades. 



Now admit that we might not be suffered by the 

 Savages to enjoy any whole country or any more then 

 the scope of a citie, yet if we might enjoy trafiique, 

 and be assured of the same, we might be much inriched, 

 our Navie might be increased, and a place of safetie 

 might there be found, if change of religion or civil 



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