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 THE 
 
 COMMODITIES 
 
 OF THE ILAND CALLED 
 
 Manati ore Long Ile 
 
 WHICH IS IN THE 
 
 Continent of Virginia. 
 
 
 Imprinted by J. M. for J. G. S. 
 
 And for f ale at the Jign of the Two Storks. 
 
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THE 
 
 COMMODITIES 
 
 Iland called Manati 
 
 Ore Long lie w^ is in the 
 Continent of Virginia. 
 
 I. 
 
 gp^ IRST thear grow 
 ^_r naturally ftore of 
 Black Wilde Vines w'^ 
 make verie good Ver- 
 gies or Vinniger for to 
 ue w^" meate or to drefle Stur- 
 p;on but by the Frenchmens Arte 
 b:ing boylde and ordred is good 
 \/ine and remeanes for three 
 nioneths and no longer. But re- 
 
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planting the vines in 2 yeares c 
 will then be excellent Wine. 
 
 11. 
 
 There is alfo great ftore of deere 
 theare and of three foarts, w^^ on! y 
 by impaling the Thickets ore For- 
 refts ore plafhing trees acrofle are 
 eafely imparted. 
 
 III. 
 
 There are verie fayre Turkey,'^ 
 fare greater then heere 500 in 
 flocke w^^ infinite ftore of Berries, 
 Chefnuts, Beechnuts and Maft ^ "" 
 the feed on. 
 
 iv. 
 
 Thears Oacks of three fevral 
 foarts, w'^ Afh and Wallnutt tn es 
 fweet red Ceader & Pines, Fers 
 and Deale, and Spruce for Marts 
 
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 of Shiping and Afhe all excellent 
 hudge and infenite, Pitch and Tarr 
 and Mafts and Yeards for fhips of 
 400 tunne heere worth 30 and 40 
 £ a peece. 
 
 V. 
 
 Whole Groves of Wallnutt Trees 
 to make Wallenutt oyle ore milke, 
 in Fraunce worth ^20 a tunne 
 and efteemed theare before other 
 oyle or milke. 
 
 VI. 
 
 Groves of Mulberrie trees for 
 Hike wormes w''^ in Ittalay are lett 
 theare as howfes are heere for rent 
 at 6|' the leaves of one Tree by the 
 yeare and likewife are fo lett in 
 fome part of the Province of 
 Fraunce att ye like rates. 
 
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 VII. 
 
 Fitt places for to make bay falte 
 in as low clay lands as y^ doe in 
 Fraunce and foner becaufe hotter ; 
 ore white falte by boyling brine 
 theare made by the fonne. And 
 y^ in New England and Verginea 
 to y^ Fifhers is deerer folde than 
 heere. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Ther are alfo fitt places to 
 build and launch ihips and fet up 
 fawing mills for Timber and 
 Plancke and Winfecote and for 
 Cabonets of fweete red Ceader 
 and Barrel boarde for the Canaries 
 or Spaine. 
 
 IX. 
 
 Ther are Ponds of Frefh Watter 
 
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 3 ore 4 miles in Compaffe to fet up 
 Iron and Water Mills and fanday 
 and Clay Cleefs likely for Iron 
 Mines, and on y^ Continent North- 
 wards heigh rockey hills w^^ Chrijft- 
 alls fphure and glittering oare and 
 after great raines and wafhings the 
 bring a third w^^ fome Copper. 
 
 X. 
 
 Theare is infinite ftore of ftur- 
 gion and mulliote very lardge : 
 The mulliote is to be dryed and 
 faked for Spaine, Canaries & 
 Ittaley and are treble the price of 
 Codfifh ore poore John and doe 
 take them in nets by 500 att a 
 draught in the fandey fholes: 
 Wheras the Portugales 50 fayle att 
 a time att Cape Blanque in Bar- 
 barie doe hooke them, being much 
 
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 leffe and not a quarter the gaine 
 to be made by them and the quan- 
 tatie of Sturgion great ftore, of y^ 
 Roes of w^^ y^ make Caviarie and 
 Potargo w''^ bringeth redday golde 
 and iilver and retorneth from the 
 Straites, Wines Frutes and Silks. 
 And this is the Staple to imploy 
 Ships and faylors 4. moneths: As 
 in fommer where each man bred 
 to fifh may erne £20 wages, £20 
 to the honnor of the Ship and 
 £20 to the Vi6luler as att thirds is 
 the ufual cuftome of y^ Wefterne 
 Fifhers. And for making of 
 greene fifh dryde curd and traynde 
 oyle is alfo 60 miles to the North- 
 wards a Bancke where there is 
 alfo good places to dry it as ftages, 
 much better then in Newfound- 
 lande, and is much bigger fifh. 
 The fifhing begineth in Martch 
 
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 and endeth in Jimne and fo is 
 caught and fowlde before New- 
 foundlande fifh is caught, and att 
 double the gaine and is worth 20 
 Marks a vyoge w''^ in Newfound- 
 land is worth but J4. a fhare att 
 the thirds. 
 
 XI. 
 
 The Planters and Coloney one 
 moneth after Cattell brought as 
 Cowes Goats and Hoggs doe digg 
 and plant Mayfe, Wheate in Aprill 
 and is reapt in Auguft ore planted 
 in Junne and rept in October. 
 
 XII. 
 
 There is infinite ftore of grownde 
 nuts, and fo much maft and walenuts 
 as Hoggs increafe 20 for one in a 
 year and Goats three for one w^^out 
 anney chardge. 
 
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 XIII. 
 
 Ther are deere breede 2 a peece 
 of w^^ y^ heigheft are 1 6 handfulls 
 and ther is alfo a race of Bufaloes 
 w''^ will be ridden and brought to 
 draw and plowe and be milked. 
 
 XIV. 
 
 The trade for hatchets knives 
 and nayles beads and toyes w^^ the 
 Savages for their Beavers heere 
 worth Ji: 2 a waight and otters 
 and deere fkins and for their Mayes 
 wheat is worth ten for one by way 
 of trucke. 
 
 XV. 
 
 Ther is infinite ftore of Fowle 
 and Egs of all foarts, of ponds of 
 frefh fifh moft excellent, fea and 
 fhell fiih in abondance and 1000 
 
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 loade of oyjfter fhells in a heape to 
 make lyme of. 
 
 XVI. 
 
 By letting out a Pond 500 ac of 
 meadow 8c Curable Lande is made 
 in a weeke. 
 
 XVII. 
 
 Irifh Cowes of y^ Englifh breede 
 at 5B1 io|' in Aprell are befttobe 
 carried w'^ y^ PafTengers goeing 
 50 in a fhip, w^^ oate meale and 
 wheat meale. 
 
 XVIII. 
 
 He that can lay out 5B20: for a 
 man's armes, bedding, victualls, 
 wages and Paffage w^^ a Carpenter 
 ore Woodman may erne for it 
 after in building fhiping Barrell 
 
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 board Wenfcott and maft &c £60 
 p"^ ann. 
 
 XIX. 
 
 A Fifher in fix moneths may 
 make his Wages worth J 60 per 
 ann. 
 
 XX. 
 
 For Pitch and Tarr and hops 
 and woade and Hike grace & fine 
 flax w'^^ growes theare. 
 
 XXI. 
 
 Ther is Greene Tobacco & dryed 
 w^^ you may have theare by way 
 of trucke w^^ the Savages. 
 
 XXII. 
 
 The firft yeares chardge will be 
 to builde and to fortefie and to be 
 provided of Laborers and not of 
 
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 Droanes and factious Mutino'' but 
 good tradefmen is the gaine. 
 
 XXIII. 
 
 As for freedom and pleafure to 
 hancke hunt iifh and fowle theare 
 is great varietie and alfo all daynties 
 of fruits that Ittaley or the Gardens 
 of Spaine affordeth may be had 
 out of thofe ritch grownds, for it 
 is as hott as Spaine ore Ittaley and 
 as full of pleafure and comforte. 
 
 XXIV. 
 
 The Winter for y^ space of two 
 moneths is as fharp as heere, and 
 ftormes then, for by reafon of the 
 raine and the woods being fo thick 
 the fonne enters not. 
 
 XXV. 
 
 The Spring Waters thear are as 
 
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 good as fmall beere heere, but thofe 
 that com from the Woods are not 
 fo good but alltogeather naught. 
 
 XXVI. 
 
 By unitie and focietie of Part- 
 ners fecuritie and hope of gaine 
 growes if order and diflapline & in- 
 telligence w*^ the Savages Verginia 
 on the Sowth, New England on the 
 North, the Dutch Plantation 60 
 miles on the Weft be had. 
 
 XXVII. 
 
 So that 30 idle men as fouldiers 
 or gent be reftdent in a rownd ftone 
 towre and by tornes to trade with 
 the Savages and to keep their Or- 
 dinance and Armes neat, fo y^ 300 
 in one Coloney of Tradefmen, fo 
 y^ 100 of them be Negro flaves 
 condemned men or apprentaftes 
 
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 will free all danger if a Govner for 
 his Watch and Ward and trayninge 
 and ammunition be carefull, And 
 y^ 8 of y'^ Planters be in Councell 
 w^^ their voyces w^^ the Govnor to 
 fee all Planters and Searvants and 
 all Tennants y^worke att halfe in- 
 coraged & well ufed. And y^ to 
 worke in fommer clofe all lande 
 from tenne till two out of y^ fhade 
 & abroad in the Water for after it 
 is hott and y^ muft reft. 
 
 XXVIII. 
 
 The Partners are willing to 
 mentaine y^ Govnor & 2 men to 
 wayte on him & a Steward & a 
 Factor & his man theife to be att 
 the chardge of y^ Adventurors and 
 25 Soldiers and 25 marriners to 
 trucke and trafficke by torne w^^ the 
 
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 Savages and never above tenn of 
 them abroad at once in a Pinnace 
 planqued againft arrowes. 
 
 XXIX. 
 
 And laftly the feare of the Span- 
 iards or Forriners theere are litle "by 
 reafon the fowndings and CoafI: to 
 them is unknown unto aney, Beiides 
 the Verginnians being neer us 
 where are 4.000 Inhabitants and 
 the Barmodes 2000, the two Dutch 
 Foarts 2000 New Plimmouth and 
 Salem 2300 All theife in three dayej 
 faile and fome in one are allyed 
 unto us to aflijft us if need require 
 againft anny ftrangers. As for tht 
 Savages 10 peeces will affright 3 00 01 
 them and put them to flight, having, 
 no other defence for themfelves but! ' 
 bowes and arrowes and all naked 
 People. 
 
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