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Author: Blome, Richard, d. 1705.
Title: The present state of His Majesties isles and territories in America ... with new maps of every place : together with astronomical tables, which will serve as a constant diary or calendar, for the use of the English inhabitants in those islands, from the year 1686 to 1700 : also a table by which ... you may know what hour it is in any of those parts, and how to make sun-dials fitting for all those places.
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Print source: The present state of His Majesties isles and territories in America ... with new maps of every place : together with astronomical tables, which will serve as a constant diary or calendar, for the use of the English inhabitants in those islands, from the year 1686 to 1700 : also a table by which ... you may know what hour it is in any of those parts, and how to make sun-dials fitting for all those places.
Blome, Richard, d. 1705.
London: Printed by H. Clark, for Dorman Newman ..., 1687.
URL: https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A28398.0001.001
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TO HIS SACRED MAJESTY JAMES II. King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, &c.
THE PREFACE TO THE READER.
The Contents.
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THE Present State OF HIS MAJESTY's Isles and Territories IN AMERICA.
Of JAMAICA,
A DESCRIPTION OF THE Island of BARBADOS.
A DESCRIPTION Of the ISLAND of St. CHRISTOPHERS.
A DESCRIPTION OF THE Island of MEVIS.
A DESCRIPTION OF THE Island of ANTEGO.
A DESCRIPTION OF THE Island of St. VINCENT.
A DESCRIPTION OF THE Island of DOMINICA.
A DESCRIPTION OF NEW-JERSEY.
A DESCRIPTION OF PENSYLVANIA.
For this Province, the general Condition of it take as followeth:
Of Country-Settlement.
The Product of the Earth.
Of the Product of our Waters.
Of Provision in general.
Of further Improvements for Trade and Com∣merce.
Advice to Adventurers how to imploy their Estates with fair profit.
Of the Natives.
Of the Government.
Of the seasons of Going, and usual time of Passage.
A DESCRIPTION OF THE Island of MONTSERRAT.
A DESCRIPTION OF THE Island of ANGƲILLA.
A DESCRIPTION Of the ISLAND of BARBADA, or BARBƲDA.
A DESCRIPTION OF THE Islands of BERMƲDAS, OR THE SUMMER-ISLANDS.
A DESCRIPTION OF CAROLINA.
A DESCRIPTION OF VIRGINIA.
A DESCRIPTION OF MARY-LAND.
A DESCRIPTION Of NEW-YORK.
A DESCRIPTION OF NEW ENGLAND.
A DESCRIPTION OF NEW-FOƲND-LAND.
A DESCRIPTION OF THE Island of TOBAGO.
DIRECTIONS For Improvement of the Island of TOBAGO.
The Proposals lately made by Cap∣tain John Poyntz, for Himself and Company, to all such People as are minded to Transport or Concern themselves in the Island of To∣bago.
Proposals for further Encou∣ragement.
ASTRONOMICAL TABLES,
A Table shewing the Prime or Golden Number, the Dominical (or Sunday Letter,) and the Moveable Feasts from the Year 1686, to the Year 1700.
The Vse of this Table.
A Description of the following Tables.
JANƲARY.
FEBRƲARY
MARCH.
APRIL.
MAY.
JƲNE.
JƲLY.
AƲGƲST.
SEPTEMBER.
OCTOBER.
NOVEMBER.
DECEMBER.
How these Islands and Plantations are seated upon the Globe of the Earth; and of other things rela∣ting thereunto: And,
I. Of Virginia, at James Town.
II. Of Boston, in New-England.
III. Of Port-Royal, in Jamaica.
IV. Of Barbadoes.
V. Of Charles Town, in Carolina.
VI. Of Bermudas.
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The Ʋse of this Table.
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How to Set any of these Dials, or any other, tru∣ly upon a Post in a Garden, or elsewhere.
Books Printed for, and Sold by Dorman New-man, at the Kings-Arms in the Poultrey.