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by ridges of mountaines; and ’tis probable for these 
reasons it had its name.* 
This is a most fertile Island, hath severall fresh Rivers, 
and the accommodation of many excellent springs, and 
from the abundance and quallity of its woods and trees, 
the most excellent in all the world, might bee made 
great advantages, from some of them, issuing very rich 
Gumms, from others rich oyles, balsome and Odoriferous 
rossins, abundance of woods, proper fordyes. The very 
mountains covered wth, large cedars, white wood, and 
excellent timber for building, or sheathing of ships, 
especially in those parts of the world, where the worme 
eats both oake and firre, wc. in regard of ye bitternesse 
of the timber, they forbeare doeing injury, divers yeares 
abundance of excellent timber, for joyners use, for Cabi- 
netts, and all other kind of rare workes. 
The Cocoa, groweth heere in great plenty, and the best 
of the sort, in all the Indies, cotton and sugar-canes 
growe there very well and the Tobaccof of Trinidada is 
ye the best in the knowen world, from some of the 
* See Sir Walter Raleigh’s account of the distribution of the Indians, 
or § Naturals’ of Trinidad, as extraéted in Se Stion 16, Supra. 
t+ This praise of the quality of Trinidac Tobacco would seem to 
justify the opinion of those who hold that it is te Tobacco of that 
Island that reference is made when Captain 3obadill says : 
’Tis your right Trinidado, 
(Scene 2 of Act Ill, of tvery man in his humour.) 
In the context, however, Ben Jonson seem to have had Cuba, or San 
Doming> in his mind. When Bobadill <sks for his match, Cash 
exclaims ; 
Would his match and he and pipe and all weve at Sanet? Domingo, 
To distinguish Trinidad-de-Guba from the Island, the Spaniards added 
the word Bavlovente, to the name of the latter, 
