. America : being the latest, and most accurate description of the New World : containing the original of the inhabitants, and the remarkable voyages thither : the conquest of the vast empires of Mexico and Peru, and other large provinces and territories, with the several European plantations in those parts : also their cities, fortresses, towns, temples, mountains, and rivers : their habits, customs, manners, and religions : their plants, beasts, birds, and serpents : with an appendix containing, besides several other considerable additions, a brief survey of what hath been discover'd of the
. America : being the latest, and most accurate description of the New World : containing the original of the inhabitants, and the remarkable voyages thither : the conquest of the vast empires of Mexico and Peru, and other large provinces and territories, with the several European plantations in those parts : also their cities, fortresses, towns, temples, mountains, and rivers : their habits, customs, manners, and religions : their plants, beasts, birds, and serpents : with an appendix containing, besides several other considerable additions, a brief survey of what hath been discover'd of the unknown south-land and the Arctick region. . 106 AMERICA. Chap! II. Englift (who arc new Planted at Albemarle Toint on Jjlley River) made ufe to fallen the Gate of their Pallifado to, was fo large, that all who came from thence fay, they never faw any Oak in England bigger, which is but the ordinary fize of the Mul- berry-Trees of this Countrey, which is fo fure an Argument of the richnefs of the Soil, that the Inhabitants of Virginia enquiring of the Seamen who* came from thence concerning the Quality and Product of the Countrey, when they werein- form'd of the large Mulberry-Trees it produced, were fo well fatisfi'd with it, that they made no farther Enquiry. There are alfo other Trees, as Afti, Poplar, and Bay, with feveral forts unknown to us of Europe; but thofe which make it almoft all one general Forrcft of large Timber-Trees, are Oak, both red and white, and Cedar. There are alfo here and there large Groves of Pine-Trees, fomc a hundred Foot high, which afford a better fort of Maft than arc to be had cither in Marj- Land or Norway. Thefe larger Trees weaving their luxuriant Branches into a clofc Shade, fuffer no Under-wood to grow between them, cither by their Droppings, or elfe the Heads of Deer which loofening all the tender Shoots, quite deftroy it-fo that a great part of the Countrey is as it were a vaft Forreft of fine Walks, free from the heat of the Sun,or the in
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