i6i The Hi/lory of Book II 



where he had alfo recommended his affairs to the direction of a 

 Company which undertook the advancement of his enterprises, 

 they divided the whole Ifland between them , and fet thofe 

 Boundaries to their feveral divifions, which are remaining to 

 this day, but with this particular provifion that Fifhing and 

 Hunting fliould be equally free to the Inhabitants of both Nati- 

 ons, and that the Sait-ponds 3 the more precious kinds of Tim- 

 ber ftf for Dying, or Joyners-work, Havens and Mines fliould 

 in like manner be common* 



Nay it was further agreed upon by certain Articles con- 

 cluded on both fides, that a good correfpondcnce fhomd be 

 malntain'd between them, as alfo for the preventing 1 of all jea- 

 losies, and avoiding the occasions of difputes and conteftati- 

 onsj which might eafilyarife between people of different hu- 

 mours .• They further made a Defenfive League for the mu- 

 tual relief of each other, if occafion fhould require, againft the 

 attempts of the common Enemy, or any other who (houJd en- 

 deavour to difturb the peace and quiet which they hoped toen~ 

 joy together in thole parts of the Country where they had 

 planted themfelves. 



• Thefe things thus fetled, the two Governours betray'd a 

 certain emulation in carrying on the eftabliftiment of their Co- 

 lonies s, in the pi ofecution whereof it is moft certain the EngHJk 

 had very confiderable advantages above the French to com pais 

 their defigns : For befides that that Nation, which is as it were 

 mirs'd up in the boibm of the Sea, can better endure the hard- 

 fhip and inconveniences of long Voyages, and is better vets ct 

 in the making of new Plantations 5 the Company which was 

 eftoblifh'd at London for the management of that of S. Chrijlo- 

 phers^ made fuch generous provifions, that at its firO: fetSernftit 

 itrnight be fupply'd with Men and Provifions, fuch as fhould be 

 neceffary for their fubfiftence, and took fo particular a care of 

 all things, that it was from time to time refrefh'd with newre- 

 cruits, and whatever it might frand in need of at the begin- 

 ning, that it vifibly profperd and -advanc'd while the French, 

 which was unfurnifh'd with all thofe allifrances, feem'd to pine 

 l and languid], nay indeed would have quite fallen away if the 



affection which it had for its chief Director, and the high 

 efteem it had conceiv'd of his valour had riot kept it up. 



While therefore the French Colony was reduc'd to theie ex- 

 tremities, and in a manner fubfifred only by its courage, that 

 of the Evglifh being in a good plight and condition, lpred k 

 felf into a new one, which planted it felf in the Ifland of Me- 

 vk 0 which is divided from S.Chrjftophers only byafmall arm of 

 the Sea, as we have faid elfewhere : But if the fmall number 

 whereto the French were reduc'd permitted them not to make 

 the like progrefles , their Governour Dejnamhic had in the 

 mean time the opportunity to make feveral ufeful regulations 



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