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Remarkable 



Voyage 



Vcrrazanus. 



The fetling of 

 Plantations. 



zJ M E *K I C J. Chap. II. 



than that of the difcovery of thofc other Countreys hitherto difcours'd of, that is 

 to fay very uncertain ; but becaufe the French boaft of Joannes Verra^anm (who though 

 an Italian, was employ'd by the French King Francis the Firft) as the firft Difcoverer, 

 not onely of Nova Francia y as hath been already intimated, but alfo of this Coun- 

 trey and the adjoyning Coaft and Regions, we (hall not think it impertinent to 

 give from their own Relations, a brief view of his Voyage, and afterwards a parti- 

 cular Defcription of the Englifb Plantations there, and of their Tranfa&ions, both 

 one with another, and between them and the Nations. The Narration of Verra- 

 ^anus's Voyage is as followeth : 



bie « /~YN command of the French King Francis the Firft, JohnVertazamu, Jnno 1524. 



°Js. « ^* letting Sail Weft ward from the Canary Ifles,difcover'd a low American Coaft, 

 " in thirty four Degrees North Latitude, inhabited by naked People, which be- 

 " hind the fandy Hills facing the Sea, Manur'd many fruitful Plains. Then Sail- 

 " ing a hundred Leagues along the Shore Northerly, he view'd a Countrey full of 

 lc Vines, which grew up amongft the Boughs of high Trees ; and Sailing up a 

 " pleafant River, Landed on the Ifland Clandia, full of woody Mountains : thence 

 " he flood for the main Continent y where after having vifited a King, Clad in 

 " wrought Deer- skin, he Sail'd by a Bay, at whofe Mouth appear'd a Rock in an 

 <c Inlet, twenty Leagues 5 where appear'd five fmall Ifles, all of them exceeding 

 " fruitful. After this (being got a hundred and fifty Leagues to the Northward) 

 " he found very falvage People, whofe Heads appear'd through Bear-skins and 

 " Sea-Calves. By this time having Terreneuf on his Starboard, he rcturn'd back to 



" Diepe. 



Thus far Verra^anus made fome difcovery of the Coaft, which hath fince not 

 onely been farther infpe<5ted by the Englijh , but alfo by them Planted and call'd 



Neit England* 



This Countrey, whether firft difcover'd by the faid Verra^anm, or together 

 with the reft of largely-taken Virginia, by Sir Walter Raleigh, or, as fome fay, by 

 Captain Gofnald, in the Year 1601. was fo well known to the Englifh in the be- 

 ginning of King James's Reign here, that the fetling and carrying on of Plantations 

 in this part of America, was vigoroufly promoted by many of the moft eminent Per- 

 fons in England : whereupon it was about the Year \6o6. being the fourth Year of 

 the faid King, granted by Patent to' feveral Lords, Knights, Gentlemen and Mer» 

 chants, under the denomination of The Plymouth Company, both in favour of thofe 

 generous Spirits, who ftudied and endeavor'd the good of the Publick by foreign 

 Plantations, and indulgence to thofe, who not well fatisfi'd with the Government 

 of Church and State, and willingly tranfporting themfelves and Families thither, 

 as to their Afylum, could more conveniently be fpar'd than the^better affe&ed part 

 of the People : And although the Colonies at firft fent over fucceeded not accord- 

 ing to expectation, yet in a (hort time there Plantations were brought to very great 

 perfection. Captain Weimouth, who had been employ'd there by the Lord Arundel 

 of Warder, for the difcovery of the North-Weft PalTage, falling (hort of his Courfe, 

 hapned into a River on the Coaft of America, call'd Temmaquid . from whence he 

 brought five of the Natives for England, three of whofe Names were Mannida, 

 SkettTt>arroes,&ndTafquantum, and Landing at Plymouth, prefented them to Sir Ferdi- 

 nando Gorges, whom hemadeufc of as Instruments for the farther advancement of 

 thefe Plantations : they were all of one Nation, but of feveral parts, and feveral 

 Families 5 he kept them with him three years, and obferving in them an inclination 

 to vertuous Defigns, and Spirits above the Vulgar, he gain'd information from 



them 



