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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... vpon the top of a Rockie Île in 43. 1,4 leagues from the Main , in May , that grew so well , as it serued vs for sallets in June and Iuly . All sorts of cattell may here be bred and fed in the Iles , or Peninsulaes , securely for ...
... vpon the top of a Rockie Île in 43. 1,4 leagues from the Main , in May , that grew so well , as it serued vs for sallets in June and Iuly . All sorts of cattell may here be bred and fed in the Iles , or Peninsulaes , securely for ...
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... vpon this Coast . In the end of August , September , October , and Nouem- ber , you haue Cod againe to make Cor fish , or Poore John : and each hundred is as good as two or three hundred in the New- found Land . So that halfe the labour ...
... vpon this Coast . In the end of August , September , October , and Nouem- ber , you haue Cod againe to make Cor fish , or Poore John : and each hundred is as good as two or three hundred in the New- found Land . So that halfe the labour ...
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... vpon an occasion ; because of the abuses which haue beene offered the poore Saluages , and the liberty both French or any that will , hath to deale with them as they please : whose disorders will be hard to reforme ; and the longer the ...
... vpon an occasion ; because of the abuses which haue beene offered the poore Saluages , and the liberty both French or any that will , hath to deale with them as they please : whose disorders will be hard to reforme ; and the longer the ...
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... vpon euery yeare or six monethes re- turne . 2000. pound will fit out a ship of 200. and 1 of a 100 tuns : If the dry fish they both make , fraught that of 200. and goe for Spaine , sell it but at ten shillings a quintall ; but commonly ...
... vpon euery yeare or six monethes re- turne . 2000. pound will fit out a ship of 200. and 1 of a 100 tuns : If the dry fish they both make , fraught that of 200. and goe for Spaine , sell it but at ten shillings a quintall ; but commonly ...
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... vpon these Hes ; and that the Riuer doth pearce many daies iourneies the intralles of that Countrey . We found the people in those parts verie kinde ; but in their furie no lesse valiant . For , vpon a quarrell wee had with one of them ...
... vpon these Hes ; and that the Riuer doth pearce many daies iourneies the intralles of that Countrey . We found the people in those parts verie kinde ; but in their furie no lesse valiant . For , vpon a quarrell wee had with one of them ...
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