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	The Air is almost always serene, sometimes moist and hot, but very healthful, agreeing well with the English Bodies, who have here at divers times settled and established a fair and powerful Colony, and have strongly fortified the Approaches, which at present are very difficult; and the Earth is exceeding fertil, yielding two Crops a year;* 1.76 their Mayz they gather in July and December: They have excellent Fruits, as Oranges, Dates, Mulberries, &c. They have plenty of Tortoises, which is their ordinary food, and the Hogs which the Spaniards formerly carried thither are excellent, and much increased; they have many Sea-birds, and other' Fowl; they have no fresh Water but that of Wells and Pits, there being neither Fountain nor Stream in these Islands. They have no venemous Beasts, their Spiders not being poysonous, but of sundry and various colours;* 1.77 and in the Hot weather they make their Webs so strong, that ofttimes Birds are entangled and catched in them. Cocheneil and Tobacco, with some Pearls and Amber,* 1.78 are their principal Riches, for which they have a good trade. Their Governour is sent them by the King of England, who governs them by our English Laws, whom they also own as their Supream; and it is observed, that scarce any are found to die but with Old age.</blockquote>		The Air is almost always serene, sometimes moist and hot, but very healthful, agreeing well with the English Bodies, who have here at divers times settled and established a fair and powerful Colony, and have strongly fortified the Approaches, which at present are very difficult; and the Earth is exceeding fertil, yielding two Crops a year;* 1.76 their Mayz they gather in July and December: They have excellent Fruits, as Oranges, Dates, Mulberries, &c. They have plenty of Tortoises, which is their ordinary food, and the Hogs which the Spaniards formerly carried thither are excellent, and much increased; they have many Sea-birds, and other' Fowl; they have no fresh Water but that of Wells and Pits, there being neither Fountain nor Stream in these Islands. They have no venemous Beasts, their Spiders not being poysonous, but of sundry and various colours;* 1.77 and in the Hot weather they make their Webs so strong, that ofttimes Birds are entangled and catched in them. Cocheneil and Tobacco, with some Pearls and Amber,* 1.78 are their principal Riches, for which they have a good trade. Their Governour is sent them by the King of England, who governs them by our English Laws, whom they also own as their Supream; and it is observed, that scarce any are found to die but with Old age.</blockquote>

			=== 1685. Geographia universalis: the present state of the whole world by Pierre Duval. ===
			<blockquote>THe Name of Canada is that which the Canadians gave their Countrey, thro which passes the greatest River of Northern America, which they call the River of Canada.

			This Countrey is full of Woods, and the Climate colder than that of France, tho' both be in an equal distance from the Equinoctial. Canada furnishes [Us] with Beavers, Stock-fish, Mouse-skins and Whale-oyl. According to the late Relation, you cannot go for half a League together along the great River, without meeting with either another River or a Lake. Wood costs nothing more than the trouble of cutting it. All these Conveniencies would be considerable, if there happen'd not from time to time horrible Tempests, which they call Hurricanes. In the Year 1663. an Earthquake lasted there for above six Months.

			The Savages are distributed into several Nations under the Government of their Sagamos's, who are the eldest of their Families. They wear Vestments of Skins, almost like to those which our Painters very generously bestow upon Hercules, or John Baptist. They make use of Bows and Arrows, the points whereof they garnish with Iron and Fish-bones, and make War by Courses and Surprises. They are almost most all alike in manners, but are different in tongues; some are wandring and Vagabonds, others have Villages and setled Abodes; that is to say, Hamocks, which consist in some Cottages. They live almost all of them without any care of Futurity, and are very fond of Tobacco. And therefore they call their Festivals and their Feasts, Tabagies. They can bring but very few men into the Field, for which reason the Europeans found it no difficult matter to settle themselves there, tho' they brought along with them for that purpose, but very inconsiderable Forces. The French have Forts here for the security of Commerce, and to put a stop to the Courses of the Savages, who are their Enemies. The Jesuits, Capuchins and other Religions have their Convents.

			Canada contains the following Countries, New France, New Denmark, New Wales, New Britain, otherwise the Land of Labrador, and Terra Coterialis; Accadia, New England, and New York, formerly called New Holland. Besides these Countries, there is that of Saguenay, which receives its name from a River, whose mouth is not above a quarter of a League broad, but which enlarges it self when you go up it, and is above two hundred fathoms deep in several places. This Circumstance hath given occasion to some Adventurers to seek a passage there for the going to China thro' the Northern Ocean. Quesbeck the Principal Colony of the Country, Founded in 1608. is the Capital of all Canada, the Residence of a Vice-Roy and Bishop. The City is divided into High and Low, with a Fortress upon the Rock, which commands the great River, that carries the flowing of the Sea above the City. Tadousac, the three Rivers and Montreal upon the same River, are three very considerable Colonies of the French. The two best Sea Ports are Miscou, and the Port Royal of Accadia. As concerning the people, the Hurons and the Algonquins towards the beginning of the great River, have ever been friends of the French, the Iroquois are cruel and great Buccaniers, that is to say, they suck the flesh of their Enemies, they fortifie their abodes with Palisadoes: They have been sturdy Enemies to the French, and have done them great damage by means of the fire Arms they had from the English and the Hollanders of their Neighbourhood. Yet the French boast that they have prevailed over them; and that tho' these Savages have been able to bring several Troops into the Field without disgarrisoning or emptying their Retreats, which are inaccessible; they have nevertheless been constrained to yield to the Arms of France. Their Country is pretty fruitful, seeing it produces Muscadine Grapes, Lemmons, vence and Melons, even as good as those of Pro- in France.

			The principal Isle of New-Found-Land, is one of the greatest in the World, with a great number of Ports, whereof that of Plaisance possessed by the French, is the best. Heretofore they burnt one part of the Forests of this Island, to render it the more habitable; But the Rosin and other Gums which ran into the Sea, were the occasion of the Fishery being spoiled in the Neighbourhood for above seven years. Almost the like thing happened in the Isle of St. Christophers, when several Ships loaded with Tobacco, perished there; the strength and bitterness of that Herb poysoning the Fish. France sends every year a great number of Ships to this Island, which it calls for that reason Terra Neuviers. The English have likewise fetled themselves here. The Isle of Cape Breton, has the Port of Chibou in its Eastern parts, which Nature has formed with all possible advantages for the security of a Fleet.

			There is a Shoal and Ridge of Sand on the East of New-Found-Land, notorious for the taking of Stockfish, and its extent of two hundred and sixty Leagues, which has given it the name of the Great Bank. 'Tis not a Rock as several do imagine; they call it Bank by reason of the shallowness all along by its side, in respect of the Depth which is very great in the other parts of that Sea. The fishing there is of two sorts, The one for Cod, and the other for dry Stock-Fish. The Seamen who Fish there, have at the same time the pleasure of taking with the Line great Birds, or Fowl, which they call Fauquets and Happefoyes, which they effect by baiting their Hooks with the Livers of Cods.</blockquote>

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