Cap. VIII. The Guibby-Iflands. 



have had heretofore, and that which they profeis at this day, 

 as we have the particulars thereof from the Englijk 0 who have 

 traded among them, and have not long fince laid the founda- 

 tions of a Colony in the midftof the nobleft, and beft known 

 of their Provinces. 



The Territories of the Apalachites confift of fix Provinces, 

 whereof three are comprehended within that noble and fpaci- 

 ous Vale which is encompafs'd by the Mountains of the Apa- 

 lates , at the foot whereof thefe people inhabit : The moft 

 considerable of thofe Provinces, and which lies towards the 

 Eaft, wherein the King keeps his Court, is called Bemarin ; 

 That which is in the midft, and as it were in the centre of the 

 three, is called Amani or Amana : And the third of thofe 

 which are within that Vale, is known by the name of Matica n 

 True it is, that this laft, which begins in the Vale, reaches a 

 great way into the Mountains, nay goes yet much beyond , 

 even to the South-fide of the great Lake, which they call 

 Theomi : The other Provinces are Schama and Meraco 0 which 

 are in the Apalatean Mountains 5 and Achalaqnes, which is 

 partly in the Mountains, and partly in the Plain, and com- 

 prehends all the Marfties and Fenny places, confining on the 

 great Lake Theomi, on the North-fide. 



The Country under the King of the Apalachites being thus 

 divided into fix Provinces, there are in it fome Mountains of 

 a vaft extent and prodigious height, which are for the moft 

 part inhabited by a people living only upon what they get by 

 hunting, there being great ftore of wild beafts in thofe Wil- 

 dernefles : Befides which, there are alfo certain Vales, which 

 are peopled by a Nation that is lefs barbarous, fuch as addidts 

 it feif to the cultivation of the earth, and is fuftain'd by the 

 fruits it produces : And laftly,there are abundance of Marflies 

 and Fenny places, and a great Lake, whereof the Inhabitants 

 are very numerous, maintaining themfelves by fiftiing, and 

 what the little good ground they have furnifties them with- 

 all. 



The three Provinces which are within the Vale, which, 

 as we (aid in the precedent Chapter 5 is fixty leagues in length, 

 and about ten more in bredth, lie as it were in a Champion 

 Country, fave only, that in fbme places there are certain ri- 

 fings and eminences, on which the Towns and Villages are 

 commonly built $ many little Rivers, which defcend from the 

 Mountains, and abound in FiOi, crofs it up and down in feve- 

 ral places : That part of it which is not reduc'd to culture is 

 well furnifiYd with fair trees of an exceffive height : For in- 

 fiance, there are Cedars 0 Cyprefe, Pines Oaks, F mamas > which 

 the French call Saxafras, and an infinite variety of others 

 which have no proper names among us. 



As concerning the Fruit-trees of this Country ^befides Cbeft- 



nut 



