Discoveries of the English, French and Dutch, in America1786 |
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Sivu 184 - Ozenbrig cloth, which being hanged up, all the liquid part drips away. When it will drip no longer, it is put into wooden boxes, about three feet long...
Sivu 173 - However, the fummer fhowers are very heavy for the time they laft ; and that part of the country which lies on the bays of the fea, and the mouths of the rivers, is certainly hot and moift, but higher up in the country the air is more agreeable, efpecially fince their lands have been cleared of wood. In the heat of fummer they have however dreadful thunder, but as it cools and refrefhes the air, the people rather wifh for it than fear it.
Sivu 142 - Indeed all thefe iflands are fo environed with rocks, that they feem to threaten all the mips that venture on the coaft with prefent deftruftion } and fo many have been wrecked upon them, that the Spaniards gave them the name of Los Diabolos, or the Devil's Iflands. The air of thefe iflands has been always thought extremely falubrious , and the appearance of every thing very delightful and charming, whence people have been accuftomed to remove thither from the other colonies, in order to recover...
Sivu 145 - ... great numbers of turtle, which are as good and as large, as any in the world. The infefts in thefe iflands are generally the fame as in our other plantations, except the fpider, which is thought to be larger here than in any other country in the world, but the beautiful colours wherewith they are adorned, take off...
Sivu 193 - They prepare a circular floor of clay, declining a little towards the center; from this is laid a pipe of wood, the upper part of which is even with the floor, and reaches ten feet without the circumference ; under the end, the earth is dug away, and barrels placed to receive the tar as it runs. Upon the floor is built up a large pile of...
Sivu 193 - This heat they temper as they pleafe, by thrufting a ftick through the earth and letting in the air at as many places as they think proper. Pitch is made by boiling tar in large iron kettles fet in furnaces, or by burning it in round clay holes made in the earth.
Sivu 162 - Englifti drove the French entirely from their fettlements ; and the country being, yielded to the crown of Great Britain, by the peace of Utrecht, all the French territory was fold for the benefit of the public, which muft have produced a very large fum, fince out of it were paid 80,000 1.
Sivu 24 - Devonfhire, reprefented to to queen Eli2abeth, the expediency of fettling all thofe countries upon the continent of America, which had been formerly difcovered by Sebaftian Cabot, in order to prevent their falling into the hands of the French : Upon which her majefty granted him letters patent, to difcover, plant, fettle, and even to fortify and build caftles, in any of the northern countries, not then in the pofl'effion of any chriftian prince. Upon this encouragement, this gentleman applied himfelf...
Sivu 31 - While he thought fit to traffic with them, none but fuch as like him wore plates of gold, or copper on their heads, were allowed either to buy or fell ; but as foon as they had done, every other Indian was allowed the fame liberty. They offered very good exchange for hatchets, axes, and .knives, and would have given any thing for -fwords ; but the Englifh would not part with ;One.
Sivu 142 - K with with rocks every way extending themfelves * great way into the fea. To its natural ftrength, efpecially to the eaftward, where it is moft expofed, the inhabitants have added that of forts, batteries, parapets and lines, fo well difpofed, that they command the feveral channels, and inlets into the fea. There are no more than two places where fhipping can fafely enter, and the rocks lie fo thick, that without a good pilot from the...