A, D. 1669. 539 



Terjons. 



By the fiflieries at fea, and the feveral trades and traffic de- 

 pending thereon _ _ _ _ 450,000 



By agriculture of all kinds, turf-making, inland fifhing ; 

 and by furnifhing thofe people with all forts of materials, 

 they being hufbandraen _ _ _ 200,000 



By manufadures, (hipping, works of art, 8tc. confumed 



abroad ; and by trades relating to the faid manufactures 650,000 



By navigating for freight and trade jointly, exclufive of the 



fifhery and trades depending thereon. - - 250,000 



By all the above people, (men, women, and children) who 

 muft be fupphed with what they want ; as food, clothing, 

 houfing, furniture, and all other things for art, eafe, 

 pleafure, and ornament _ _ _ _ 650,000 



Gentry without employment, civil magiftrates, and officers, 

 and fuch as live on their eftates or money, foldiers, the 

 poor in hofpitals, beggars, &c. - - 200,000 



Total number of fouls in the fingle province of Holland 2,400,000 



He adds, * that the eighth part of this number could not be fupplied 

 ' with neceflaries out of the produd: of Holland, it being their gain by 



* traffic, which brings in the neceflaries for the other feven eighth parts 



* of the whole people.' 



He alfo obferves, \^part iii, c. 6] that the city of Amfterdam hath 

 been enlarged two parts in three : and yet none can obferve that either 

 the houfes or the inhabitants are thereby lefl^ened in value. Yea, that 

 it is fo augmented in buildings, that the imports on the bulky goods 

 of tliat city only, in the lail farm, yielded above 30,000 gilders more 

 than in the former farm ; and we may affirm the like of Leyden, Dort, 

 and other cities in proportion. 



In this fame year the Dutch Eafl-India company, after a long con- 

 tell with the king of MacalTar, obliged him to yield to them the fort- 

 refs of that name. 



King Charles having now received intelligence that the Spaniards had 

 abandoned the moft part of the great province of Chili in South Ame- 

 rica, was adviled to attempt a iettlement in a country fo greatly abound- 

 ing in gold, &c.: he therefor fent out Sir John Narborough, with a fhip 

 of 2S'^ guns and a pink ; with orders to make difcoveries on that coail, 

 and in other parts of the South feas. He paffed the ftraits of iMagellan, 

 and failed along the coafts of Patagonia and Chili ; but, as his orders 

 were exprefs not to moleft the Spaniards in thofe parts, and as the Spa- 

 niards at Baldivia would not permit him to trade with the Indians, and 

 had feized his lieutenant and three of his lailors, he iudsred it prudent to 



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