. The general historie of Virginia, New England and the Summer Isles; together with the true travels, adventures and observations, and a sea grammar. enerall Historic of the Bermudas, now called the Summer lies, from their beginning in the yeere of our Lord 1593. to this present 1624. with their proceedings, accidents and present estate. Efore we present you the matters offact, it is fit to offer to your view theStage whereon they were acted, for asGeography without History seemeth acarkasse without motion, so Historywithout Geography, wandreth as aVagrant without a certaine H
. The general historie of Virginia, New England and the Summer Isles; together with the true travels, adventures and observations, and a sea grammar. enerall Historic of the Bermudas, now called the Summer lies, from their beginning in the yeere of our Lord 1593. to this present 1624. with their proceedings, accidents and present estate. Efore we present you the matters offact, it is fit to offer to your view theStage whereon they were acted, for asGeography without History seemeth acarkasse without motion, so Historywithout Geography, wandreth as aVagrant without a certaine Hands lie in the huge maine Ocean, and two The dacrip-hundred leagues from any continent, situated in 32. tionof the and 25. minutes, of Northerly latitude, anddistant from England West South-West, about , some twenty miles in length, and not past twomiles and a halfe in breadth, environed with Rocks,which to the North-ward, West-ward, and South-East,extend further then they have bin yet well discovered:by reason of those Rocks the Country is naturally verystrong, for there is but two places, & scarce two, unlesse 33i. THE HISTORIE OF THE* BERMUDAS 1623. to them who know them well, where shipping may safelycome in, and those now are exceeding well fortified, butwithin is roome to entertaine a royall Fleet: the Rocksin most places appeare at a low water, neither are theymuch covered at a high, for it ebbs and flowes not pastfive foot; the shore for most part is a Rocke, so hardenedwith the sunne, wind and sea, that it is not apt to beworne away with the waves, whose violence is also brokeby the Rocks before they can come to the shore: it isvery uneven, distributed into hills and dales; the moldis of divers colours, neither clay nor sand, but a meanebetweene; the red which resembleth clay is the worst,the whitest resembling sand and the blackest is good,but the browne betwixt them both which they call white,because there is mingled with it a white meale
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