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A Monument 

 erclied by 

 Drake before 

 his departure 



^AME%ICA, Chap. XI. 



to thofc whom they lik'd beft, being the youngeft, they falling down and crying, 

 proffer'd Offerings, as to Gods, and held their Cheeks to draw Blood out of them . 

 which the Englijh refufing, they defifted ; but fhew'd them great Wounds, and dc. 

 fir'd fome Plaiftcrs of them, which they fuppli'dthem with. 



The Englijh going up into the Countrey found the fame well grown with Woods, 

 which abounded with Coneys, whole Heads differ'd little from the European, but 

 having Feet like Moles, long Tails like Rats, and in their Sides a Bag, wherein 

 when they had fill'd their Bellies they put the remainder. They alfo faw nume- 

 rous Herds of Deer,with whofe Flefh having been courteoufly Entertain'd in fcveral 

 Villages, they return'd to the Fleet, Drake, juft before he weighed Anchor, caus'd 

 a Pillar to be fet in the Ground with a Silver Plate on the fame, with an Infcrip- 

 tion, mentioning the Day of his Arrival, Name and Arms of Qjjeen Ei^abeth, and 

 free delivering of that Realm to him by the Indians : he alfo nail'd a Sixpence with 

 the Queens Effigies on the Plate, under which he caus'd his own Name to be 

 Engraven. 



THE 



ISLANDS 



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Northern America. 



Situation and 

 Bounds of 

 XewfouNd 

 Land. 



CHAP. XI. ■ 



Terra ,!A(Vy4, or S^jvp -found Land, with the Ifland of Jjfumption. 



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Aving treated at large of all the feveral Regions and Pro- 

 vinces of the North part of the Continent of America, we 

 come now to thofe Iflands that lie within the fame De- 

 grees of Northern Latitude with that part of the Conti- 

 nent : The firft is Terre HeWVe, or T^eip'found Land, difco- 

 ver'd together with feveral other Parts upon the Continent 

 before mention'd by Sir Sebaflian Cabott y by the Counte- 

 nance and Charge of King Henry the Seventh of England.^ 

 whereupon a rightful Claim thereunto, and Intereft therein, hath been own'd by 

 the fucceeding Kings of England, as hereafter (hall be more particularly related. 



]^en> -found Land is fituated betwixt the Degrees of forty fix and fifty three of 

 Northern Latitude, and is divided from the Continent of America by an Arm of 

 the Sea, in like diftance as England is from France: The Ifland is as large as England 

 in length, greater in breadth, and lies near the Courfe that Ships ufually hold in 

 their Return from the V/eJl-lndies, and is. near the mid-way between Ireland and 

 Virginia. 



We 



