Chap. XVIIL 



AMERICA. 



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and of a deep Green, have alfo a delicate fmcH . the thinneft Roots appear above 

 the Ground, and are exceeding good to cure green Wounds, (loppings and fliortnefs 

 of Breath occafionM by Colds. 



The Tobacco, by the Caribbeeans call'd Y-ouli, Planted among the Fruit-Trees^ 

 grows very plentifully here 5 it (hoots up from a ftringy Root, bitter of tafte, with 

 a thick Stalk, which fhoots out Boughs with great Leaves, woolly underneath, 

 and bears a kind of Violet Flower, which when dry'd, arefucceeded by little Cods 

 full of black Seed ; and to prevent the over-growing of it, they cut off the top of 

 the main Stalk. 



The Bird Colibry, which is exceeding beautiful, makes his Neft under the To- ^f Bird 

 bacco-Leaves. 



A company of Townfmen of Walcheren, having a Grant from the States of the 

 United Provinces ,fent a Colony to Tabago . but they being fcarce two hundred in all, 

 were for the mod part deftroy'd by the Qtribbeeans ; the reft weak or fickly, fearing 

 the fame Entertainment, foughtto favethemfelves ; fo that the Ifland has not for- 

 merly been frequented but by the French from Marti?iico, and Guadalupe, who for 

 fome time came ov« onely to catch Turtles and Lamantins there. 



The Qaribbeeans alfo either in their March againft, or Return from the Arovages\ 

 Landed here for neceffary Provifions . But of late the Lord Lampfen hath Setled a 

 Plantation in this defolate Ifland. 







Sect. XXII. 



St. Chriftophers, 



ton of 



SI*. Cbrijlophcrs, a pretty diftance from 7obago y received its Penomination front wl : . 

 Qmjlopher (olumbus, invited thereto by the fliape of a great Mountain, having ^VxifLni 

 as it were another letter on one of its Shoulders, being fancy 'd to reprefent 

 the Figure of the fuppos'd Giant Cbrijlopher, who is reported to have carry'd our 



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