Early English Colonies in Trinidad. 
(Concluded ) 
THE DESCRIPTION OF TRINIDADA. 
(Sloane MSS. 3662, British Museum.) 
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| pa LIS Island is scittuate between the degrees g and 
to of Northerne Lattitude, and between 320 
and 321 of Longitude, counting from ye first 
and sixt Meridian of St. Michael’s; one of ye Azoras 
Islands ; and distant from the mouth of ye River Oro- 
noque, twenty leagues North, its East end from Barbados 
fifty 8 leagues South-south-West ; halfe a point Westerly. 
Its Lenth is tourty leagues, East and West in circum- 
ference 120 English leagues, and is the largest of all the 
Carrebe Islands. 
This Island was first discovered by COLLUMBUS, Anno 
1497 (8) in his Voyage from Cales, for his further dis- 
covery of ye West Indies, who sayling from thence to 
the Westward, through that narrow passage between a 
* The author of this manuscript was Major John Scot’, a Soldier- 
Planter of Barbados. He was appointed on the 29th of August 1668, 
to be the King’s Geographer. Of his chequered career much infor- 
mation will be found ‘n the Bodleian Library, at Oxford, in Rawlinson 
MSS. A175; A178 and A, 241. He seems to have been a thorn in the 
flesh of that curiosity of Humankind, Samuel Pepys, of Diary fame. 
Whatever Scott’s personal chara€ter may have been, he possessed an 
accurate knowledge of the English settlements in the West Indies, and 
the whole of the Sloane MSS. 3662 is a valuable contribution to the early 
History of Barbados, Trinidad, Tobago, Grenada, and Guiana, 
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