(4^) 
Kan^kigh they were mmei^Virginiay and fj 
remained untill King James divided the 
Countrey into Provinces. New-l^ngland 
then is all that trad of land that lyes be- 
twecti- the Nurthcrly latitudes of 40 and 
^(5, that is from Ve-la-npare-Eay to New* 
foHnd4md , foffie will have it to be in lati- 
tude from 41 to 45an King Jame^s Letters 
Patents to the Council of Tlimouth in De- 
(vo^pire from 40 to 48 of the fame latitude, 
it is judged to be an Ifland, furroundcd on 
the Norch with the fpacious River of C^a* 
i^^^f/, on the South with M^//^eg<^?/« or Hud^ 
foHi River^having their rife, as it is thought, 
from two great lakes not far off one ano- 
ther, the Sea lyes Eaftand South from the 
land, and is very dcep^ fomc fay that the 
depth of the Sea being meifured with line 
and plummet^ feldom exceeds two or three 
miles, e> c pt in fome places near the Sm* 
z/i^?f-(horcs5 and about PontuSj obferved by 
P/f/fy. Sir Francis Drak^ threw out 7 Hogs- 
heads of line near Porto-hello and found no 
bottom, but whether this be true or no, or 
that they were deceived by the Currants 
carrying away their kadi and line, thisis 
certainly true, that there is more Sea^ in the 
Weftern than the Eaftern Hemifphere^ on 
the fl:iore in more places than one at fpr ing- 
tides, that is at the full or new of the moon, 
the 
