Cha P- II. AMERICA. , 3 p 



As for thofe who will have Kommbtga deriv'd from NorVegia, in refpecT: of a Co. 

 lony brought thither from Jtyrwt,, if the Etymologie be not a little too much 

 fore'd, the. Invention may pafs well enough till a better be found out. 



In this Countrey the temperature of the Air is not bad, nor the Soil unfruitful, *££ 

 if it were well cultivated, chiefly towards the Rivers, and where it is not either Br** 

 overgrown with Woods, or craggy; with Hills and mountainous Rocks : neither 

 are the Woods unprofitable, for they afford good Timber, and all kind of necelTary 

 and ufeful Wood, efpecially Beeches, Fir-trees, Wallnut-trees, and other Nuts : 

 The Plains are very pleafant, and yield good Pafturage, onely the Maritime Coafts 

 are io {hallow and full of Sands, that the Sailing near them is accounted fome- 

 what dangerous , and this may be imagined to be the reafon that no Authors have 

 yet met with any Ports or Havens belonging to this Countrey, which they have 

 thought worthy their notice. 



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New England. 



AS Canada is by fome accounted a general Province/ containing ^tw France, 

 V Jccadtc, Njrumbega, and other places, fo under Vtrgima largely taken, are' 

 comprehended JS[ew England, NeT» Netherlands, and Virginia properly fo 

 call'd . however, fince that part which vulgarly goes under the Name of Virginia 

 and M?Tb England 'were poffcfs'd,if not difcover'd, at feveral times, and their Plan, 

 rations promoted and propagated upon feveral occafions, and by diftinfl: Interefts, 

 and fince 2fy* England hath been look'd uppn as a place considerable enough for 

 Perfonsof very eminent quality to concern themfelves in it, we rather are indue'd 

 to confider this Countrey as a principal part, than as any way depending on, or 

 being any Branch or Portion of Virginia. 



It lies between Njrumbega, which it hath Northward, and New Netherlands South- Ration of 

 ward, from forty one to forty five Degrees of Northern Latitude, in the midft of S**" 

 the temperate Zone, and paralell to France and fome part of Italy in the Weftern 

 Hemifphere, fo that one would think it mould enjoy the fame temperature of 

 Air . but the contrary is found, for that part which borders upon the Sea is colder, 

 partly by reafon that the Sea-waves break the reflexion of the Sun-beams, partly 

 by reafon of the abundance of Vapors, which mounting upward, abate the ardor 

 of them 5 but the more Inland parts of the Countrey are indifferently warm: 

 Moreover it hath been found by certain experience, that thofe Countreys which 

 look towards the Eaft, or Sun-rifing, are colder than thofe which lie towards the 

 Weft, or Sun-fetting, and thofe that have the Evening Winds on them, warmer 

 than thofe which have the Morning Winds , which being fo, it fhould follow, 

 that the temperature of the Air in thofe Regions is peculiar to the Bodies of thofe 

 of our Nation, who being accuftom'd to a Climate fomewhat temperate, arc nei- 

 ther able to endure extremity of Cold, nor immoderate Heat : Yet there are who 

 affirm, that Ney» England, though fituate in the midft of the temperate Zone, never, 

 thelefs feels both extremities of the two oppofite Zones, in the Summer the heat 

 of the Ttorrid, and in the Winter the cold of the Friaid. 



As for the firft difcovery of this Countrey, it is not to be cxpefted otherwife £; ft 



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