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’The Discoveries and Settlements Boole f, 
the Bifiory of this Country within this Period, wherein is demonf rated our clear and indiibitahle Pio-hf t§ 
the If and of Cape Breton. 14. Phe fever al Voyages to Guiana, down to the Death of Sir Walter Ra« 
leigh, after Ins laft expedition thither, and an Account of our Settlemefit at Surinam. 15.-/^ fort Ac-^ 
count oj- the firf planting the rich and fruitful If ajid of 16. Phe BIflory of this advanta- 
geous Settlement^ down to the Reforation. ly. Phe Situation, Climate, Soil, Produce, and incredible 
Advantages that have accrued to Great Britain this Colony, which is proved to be the bed in the 
World. 18. Phe Difeovery, Conquef, and Settlement ofh>t. Chriftopher’s, Nevis or Mevis, Montferrat Cfc 
19. Phe Grant of the Province ^ Maryland to the Lord Baltimore, and the Settlemeilt of that Country, 
with other Particulars relating to it within the Compafs of this Period. 20. Phe Expedition by the Di- 
reSlion of the ProteAor Qxomvct\\, for the taking \ILp2A10\2i fro?n the Spaniards, with the true Caufes 
of Its Mifcarriage.. 21. Phe Bifory of the Conquef and Settlement of the mof noble and moft important 
If and oJ Jamaica. 22. A fort Defeription of the If and, a View oJ the vaf Profits derived to Great 
Britain from the Pofeffion of it, and other Particulars. 23. Phe Conclufon of the SeBion, with fo?i 2 e Re- 
marks and Obfervations on the principal Events mentioned thereius 
I* A T the Time of King James‘s AccelTion to the 
I \ Englijh Throne, there were the faireft Opportu- 
nities offered for extending and fecuring the Commerce 
of this Ifland that could be wifhed j and therefore we 
need not be furpnzed at finding fuch vaft Improvements 
made, and fuch mighty Advantages gained to this Na- 
tion, under a Government that has not hitherto been re- 
prefented in the faireft Lights to the People. We muft, how- 
ever, obferve, that the peaceableTemperof King was 
of greatUfe to the trading Part of hisSubjefts ; for thePower 
,of Queen Elizabeth had raifed fuch a Veneration in fome, 
and ftruck fuch a Terror into others, that there was fcarce 
any Nation which did not willingly embrace the Friend- 
Ihip of King James, and offer him whatever Term_s could 
be thought moft fuitable to the commercial Views of 
his Subjects ; which was extremely agreeable to the Eng- 
lijh, at that Time, who began to entertain very true 
Notions of Trade i to fee its Importance, above all 
Things, and to wifh. for the Means of promoting and 
extending it on all Sides, to which they began to think a 
Peace with Spain would not a little contribute. At theTime 
of the Queen’s Deceafe there was a Fleet preparing under 
the Command of Sir William Monfon, intended for the Spa- 
nijh Coaft ; for it was a wife and juft Policy in that Prin- 
cefs, to keep the War at a Diftance from her own Do- 
minions, to find her Enemies work enough at Home, 
and thereby prevent their difturbing any of her Territo- 
ries. But upon the Acceffion of King James this Fleet 
was countermanded ; and, it feems, not without Rea- 
Ibn ; for the Archduke, who was then Governor of the 
Low Countries, thought fit to recall his Letters of Re- 
prizal, and thereby opened a free Trade between England 
and Flanders, a thing highly fatisfaftory to the Merchants, 
who immediately reaped the Benefit of it. 
There was likewife another Defign on foot at the Time 
of the Queen’s Demife, which was the profecuting the 
Difeoveries and Trade to North America, in which feve- 
ral Gentlemen and Merchants of Brijiol were concerned, 
and amongft them the Reverend Mr. Hackluit, whom 
we have fo often mentioned ; and who, having a Prebend 
in the Cathedral Church of Brifiol, and having a great 
Genius for promoting fuch Enterprizes, was fixed upon to 
apply in behalf of himfelf, and the reft > of the Perfons 
concerned, to Sir Walter Raleigh, who was ftill looked 
upon as the Proprietor of Virginia, in order to procure 
his Licence for this Trade. Upon his Application to 
that worthy Perfon, they received all the Encourage- 
ment they could defire ; for he not only granted them a 
Licence under his Hand and Seal, but alfo made over to 
them all the Profits which fhould arife from the Voyage. 
After they were thus impowered, they raifed a joint 
Stock of a thoufand Pounds, and fitted out two fmall 
Veffels, the one called the Speedwell, commanded by 
Capt. Matthew Fringe, of the Burthen of fifty Tons, 
with thirty Men and Boys ; the other a Bark of twenty- 
fix Tons, called the Difeoverer, commanded by Mr. 
William Brown, who had under him a Mate, and eleven 
Men, and Boys befides. Thefe Veffels were vidlualed 
for eight Months, and had a large Cargo on board, con- 
fifting of all forts of Goods that were thought proper 
for that Country. They failed from King’s-Road, near 
BriJlol, on the 20th of March, 1683. Being hindered 
by contrary Winds, they put into Haven, wfiere 
they continued till the loth of April following, and then 
continued their Voyage. The Rout they took was by the 
Azores, and they arrived without any remarkable Accident 
on the Coaft of North Am eric a dm theLat, of 43 Degrees; 
and, after having examined the Coaft, on which^ thef 
found nothing for their Purpofe, they failed on South- 
weft in fearch of that Part of the Country where CapD 
Cofnold had been. 
At length, they found in the Latitude of 41 Degrees,- 
and fome few Minutes, a very convenient Bay, to which 
they gave the Name or hitfoPs-Bay, in honour of Mr, 
John Whitfon, who was then Mayor of Brifiol. Here 
they landed, and cut a good Qiiantity of Saffafras, and car- 
ried it on board ; but, left they flioiild be furprized in 
the Woods by the Natives while they were at Work, 
they eredted a little Fort or Redoubt, wherein they left 
their Effedls, and four or five Men to guard them, 
while the reft were at v/ork. The Natives came and 
trafficked with the Englifij, forty or fifty in a Company, 
and fometimes upwards of an hundred, who eat and 
drank, and were very merry with our Adventurers j 
efpecially when they obferved a Lad in their Company- 
playing upon a Guitar, they would get round about him, 
and, taking Hands, dance twenty or thirty in a Ring, 
after the American Manner. ° 
Our Seamen obferved, that the Natives were more 
afraid of two Maftiff-Dogs they carried with them 
than of twenty Men ; and when they defigned to get rid 
of their Company, they let loofe one of thefe Maftiffs ; 
whereupon the Natives would ftiriek out, and run away 
to the Woods. But ’tis probable this Ufage, and the 
eredling a Fortification in their Country, made the Indi- 
ans at length look upon the Englijh as their Enemies : 
For our Adventurers inform us, that a Party of Indians 
came and furrounded their Fort a few Days after, when 
moft of them were abfent, and would probably have 
furprized it, if the Captain of the Ship had not fired 
two Guns, and alarmed the Workmen in the Woods, 
who thereupon returned to the Relief of the Fort. 
The Indians pretended indeed they had no hoftile In-' 
tentions, but our People never cared to truft them after- 
wards: And the Day before the embarked, the 
Natives came down again in great Numbers, and fetfire to 
the Woods where they had cut the Saflafras; which, ’tis 
probable, was defigned to let Englijh know they would 
preferve nothing in their Country which fhould invite fuch 
Guefts to vifit them again ; for no doubt the great Guns 
and Fire-arms had rendered the Englijh very terrible to 
them, as well as their Dogs. The Account thefe People 
gave of the Country and the Inhabitants was, as m%hc 
very well be expeded, much the fame with what had 
been given before by Capt. Gojnold, and thofe who had 
failed with him into thofe Parts, and therefore we need 
not dwell upon the Subjed. Amongft other Curiofities 
they brought back with them, the moft remarkable was, 
one of the Boats ufed by the Inhabitants, made of the 
Bark of a Birch Tree, fowed together with Twigs, the 
Seams covered with Rofin or Turpentine; andtho’ it was 
feventeen Foot long, four broad, and capable of carry- 
ing nine Perfons, it did not weigh fixty Pounds. Thefe 
Boats the Inhabitants rowed, or rather paddled, with 
two wooden Inftruments like to our Bakers Peels, by the 
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