id 



The Hiflory of Book I. 



liv'd a longtime in very good correfpondence. Monf Parquet 

 is the prefent F rench Governour of it. 



Of all the Caribbies this is the moft uneve n Ifland, that is, the 

 moft full of Mountains, which are very high, and intermixt 

 with inacceffible Rocks. The fruitful parts of it confift in 

 certain round Hills or eminences } as alfo in very delightful 

 Ikirts of Mountains, and fome Plains or Valleys, which areex- 

 treamly pleafant. 



The Mountains of it are not to be inhabited, and fervefor 

 the feeding and retreat of wild Beafts, Serpents and Snakes, 

 whereof there is great abundance. Yet are thefe Mountains 

 well furnifh'd with wood, which, in bignefs and length, ex- 

 ceed any in Europe, and bears fruit and food for the wild Boars 

 and Birds. 



As for the Hills and fkirts of Mountains, they are for the 

 moft part, inhabitable ^ and of a good foil, but verytrouble- 

 fome to manure. For fome of them are fo high and fteepy, 

 that people can hardly work on them without danger, or at 

 leaft without holding by a Tobacco-ftalk, or fome Tree with 

 one hand, that they may work with the other. 



The Tobacco which grows on thefe emintnr places is ever 

 the belt, and efteem'd above that which grows in tht: Valleys, 

 and bottoms , which have not fo much prefence of the Sun. 

 For the Tobacco, which grows in botroms, and places eiicom- 

 pafs'd with Woods, is ever full of yellow-fpots, as if it were 

 burnt, and neither takes well, nor keeps well. Thefe enclofed 

 places are alfo unhealthy, and thofe who work in them con- 

 tract an ill colour, and the new comers, who are not accu- 

 ftomed to that air , do fooner, in thefe, then in any other 

 places, catch that griping of the Belly, which is fo common in 

 thefe Iflands. 



There being two different Nations in this Ifland, it is accord- 

 ingly divided between them, to wit, the Indians , the natural 

 Inhabitants of the Country 3 and the French, who laid the 

 foundations of this Colony in July, in the year 163 5. under 

 the Conduct of Monf. Defnawbuc , who brought them from 

 St. Christophers, and left them in quiet pofleffion of this place. 



That part of the Ifland which is inhabited by the Indians is 

 comprehended in one quarter, which is called the Cabes-terre, 

 without any other diftinction. 



The part occupied by the French, and called Bajfe-terre, is 

 divided into five quarters, which are by them called. La Cafe 

 du Pilote, La Cafe Capot, Le Carbet, Le Fort St. Pierre, and Le 

 Prejcheur. In each of thefe Quarters there is a Church, or at 

 leaft a Chappel, a Court of Guard, and a Magazine for Arms, 

 about which are built feveral large and fair Srore-houfts, 

 both for the Commodities that are imported, and thofe of the 

 growth of the Ifland. 



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