Tracts and Other Papers Relating Principally to the Origin, Settlement, and Progress of the Colonies in North America: From the Discovery of the Country to the Year 1776, Volume 2P. Force, 1838 - United States |
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... excellent good harbor , good land ; and no want of any thing , but industrious people . After much kindnesse , vpon a small occasion , wee fought also with fortie or fiftie of those : though some were hurt , and some slaine ; yet within ...
... excellent good harbor , good land ; and no want of any thing , but industrious people . After much kindnesse , vpon a small occasion , wee fought also with fortie or fiftie of those : though some were hurt , and some slaine ; yet within ...
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... excellent fish , as many as his Net can drawe on shore : no Riuer where there is not plentie of Sturgion , or Salmon , or both ; all which are to be had in abundance obseruing but their seasons . But if a man will goe at Christmasse to ...
... excellent fish , as many as his Net can drawe on shore : no Riuer where there is not plentie of Sturgion , or Salmon , or both ; all which are to be had in abundance obseruing but their seasons . But if a man will goe at Christmasse to ...
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... excellent fish , at their pleasures ? And is it not pretty sport , to pull vp two pence , six pence , and twelue pence , as fast as you can hale and veare a line ? He is a very bad fisher , cannot kill in one day with his hooke and line ...
... excellent fish , at their pleasures ? And is it not pretty sport , to pull vp two pence , six pence , and twelue pence , as fast as you can hale and veare a line ? He is a very bad fisher , cannot kill in one day with his hooke and line ...
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... excellent mixed coast of stone , sand and clay , much corne , many people , some Iles , many good harbours , a temperate aire , and therein all things necessary for the building ships of any proportion , and good merchandize for their ...
... excellent mixed coast of stone , sand and clay , much corne , many people , some Iles , many good harbours , a temperate aire , and therein all things necessary for the building ships of any proportion , and good merchandize for their ...
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... excellent sorts of sea - fish , as the rivers and Iles doth varietie of wilde fowle of most vsefull sorts . Mines we find to our thinking , but neither the goodnesse nor qualitie we know . Better grain cannot be then the Indian corne ...
... excellent sorts of sea - fish , as the rivers and Iles doth varietie of wilde fowle of most vsefull sorts . Mines we find to our thinking , but neither the goodnesse nor qualitie we know . Better grain cannot be then the Indian corne ...
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