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Vinci: 



Water Lefli; 

 moos. 



Wheat." 



Pcafr: 



Their Vines grow wild in moft places, and bear abundance of blue, white, and 

 Muskadine Grapes : Sometime fince the Inhabitants made a confiderable advan* 

 tage by the Wine of them, which is not inferior to either ^henijhot French* 



All manner of Plants known in Europe grow in their Gardens : The Water- 

 Lemmons, no lefs pleafing to the Palate than healthful when grown ripe 5 they are 

 about the bignefs of an indifferent Cabbage : the Englifl) prefs a Juice out of them, 

 which if it did not turn fowre in a fhort time, might well be compar'd with Spa* 

 nip? Wine. 



The Calabajhes which grow there, ir^le hollow, ferve for Water.cups. 

 Pumpions are alfo there in great abundance. 



Their Wheat though Set fix Foot deep, grows very fpeedily : Kidney-Beans 

 b^ing planted amongft it, they will wind about the Stalks thereof. 

 Gray Peafe grow hereto faft, that they gather them twice a year. 

 In one Field Phyfical Herbs and Indigo grow wild in great abundance } and Bar- 

 ley fprings above a Mans heighth* 



Moreover, there are divers forts of fweet-fmelling Flowers. 



The Hills are moft of a fat and clayie Soil, fit to make Pots, Tobacco-pipes, or W^c 

 any other fort of Earthen Ware. 



In fome places alfo is (lore of Mountain Cryftal, and that fort of Mineral which 

 we call MufcoYta Glafs : Others afford Marble, Serpentine Stone, and other forts 

 of hard Stone. And though the Natives did not think it worth their while, or were 

 not in a capacity to dig for Minerals themfelves, yet it remains without contradi- 

 ction, that the Mountains inclofe both Gold and Silver. 



When Captain William Qiejf, Anno 1645. us'd the Indian Interpreter Jgberoenfe 

 (to decide the Differences which arofe between the Wejl-lndia Company and the wild 

 People call'd Makwaes,) heobferv'd him to paint his Face with a yellow glittering 

 colour, which he judg'd to be of fome rich Mineral : whereupon buying fomc of 

 the faid Jgberoenfe y he put it into a Crufible, and gain'd two fmall pieces of Gold 

 outof the fame, valu'd at fix Shillings- bin keeping it private, and purchafing a- 



T i great 



Gold and Sii- 

 ver-Mine*. 



