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foundation ofScvilla Nueva; which, from the following account, ap- 

 pears to have been fituntcd very near to the inlet where Columbus ran 

 his two fhattercd vcficls on (hore. We are told by Herrer.T, " that 

 -" whilft the admirsl was detained here, waiting for a fnipfrom Hlfpani- 

 " ola to carrv him o3", a party of his crew, headed by Francis de Porras, 

 "entered into mutiny. Thefe revokers, after rambling feyeral days 

 " about the country, committing violence on the peaceable natives, 

 " marched towards the (liips with intention to altack him ;" and being ad- 

 vanced within a quarter of a le cogues dijlancc ^xom. them, halted at an 

 Indian town called Mayma, where fome years afterwards the Spanifli 

 colony named Seville was eftablifhed." It is moft probable, therefore, 

 from this relation, that the inlet to which the admiral gave the name 

 ■of Santa Gloria, was not, as Ibme writers have fuppofed, what is now 

 ■called Port Maria (which is many leagues further Eafiward), but the 

 -cove known by the name of Don Chriftopher's, which feems to cor- 

 jefpond with the event, and is not much more than a quarter of a 

 league diftant from Seville, or St. Anne's Bay. 



It is uncertain at what time the fugar cane was introduced into Ja- 

 maica. It is faid to have been brought firft into Hifpaniola, by one 

 Aguilon, of that ifland, who in the year i 506, having carried with him 

 fome plants of it from the Canaries \a\ they were found to thrive luxuri- 

 antly in this newly-difcovered foil, infomuch that every root produced 

 from 20 to 30 canes [/^l. The cultivation of it was, thereupon, 

 very zealoufly encouraged by the Jeronomite friars, who held a large 

 fhare of authority, and, perhaps, of property, there. Thefe patriotic 

 fons of the church offered loans of live hundred pieces of eight to every 

 adventurer who fliould ercd a fugar-mill j and the premium operated 

 lb well, that three Spaniards ftt up one of thefe engines in co-partner- 

 Ihip, at Laguata, near the river Nizao; others followed their example, 

 and in a fliort fpace of time the number of thefe works augmented to 

 forty, either water or horfe-mills ; for horned cattle were not as yet 

 employed in them. 



[a] Pet. Mart. p. 499. 



[ff] Moll of our wrucvD J.itc tUcir tiiir intnxluCt-iuii trom Brafil; but Herrcra affirms, they were 

 brought tVoin Old Sp:uii into the Canary Ulaiids ; il' fo, we mull draw their origin rather from 

 Africa than America; Lut the plant was certainly common 10 both of them, as well as to 



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