A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia by Thomas Hariot
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declaration of such commodities there alreadie found or to be raised,
which will not onely serue the ordinary turnes of you which are and shall bee the platers and inhabitants, but such an ouerplus sufficiently to bee yelded, or by men of skill to bee prouided, as by way of trafficke and exchaunge with our owne nation of England, will enrich your selues the prouiders; those that shal deal with you; the enterprisers in general; and greatly profit our owne countrey men, to supply them with most things which heretofore they haue bene faine to prouide, either of strangers or of our enemies: which commodities for distinction sake, I call 'Merchantable'. In the second, I will set downe all the comodities which wee know the countrey by our experience doeth yeld of its selfe for victuall, and sustenance of mans life; such as is vsually fed vpon by the inhabitants of the countrey, as also by vs during the time we were there. In the last part I will make mention generally of such other comodities besides, as I am able to remember, and as I shall thinke behoofull for those that shall inhabite, and plant there to knowe of; which specially concerne building, as also some other necessary vses: with a briefe description of the nature and maners of the people of the countrey. THE FIRST PART, OF MARCHAN- TABLE COMMO- DITIES. 'Silke of grasse or grasse Silke.' THere is a kind of grasse in the countrey vppon the blades where of |
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