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RELATING PRINCIPALLY TO THE
ORIGIN, SETTLEMENT, AND PROGRESS
OF THE
COLONIES IN NORTH AMERICA,
FROM THE DISCOVERY OF THE COUNTRY TO THE YEAR 1776.
COLLECTED BY PETER FORCE.
Vol. IV.
WASHINGTON:
PRINTED BY W M. Q. FORCE.
Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1847,
BY PETER FORCE,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia.
CONTENTS
OF THE FOURTH VOLUME.
I. Virginia richly valued, by the description of the main
land of Florida, her next neighbour: out of the foure
yeeres continuall trauell and discouerie, for aboue one
thousand miles East and West, of Don Ferdinando de
Soto, and sixe hundred able men in his companie.
Wherin are truly obserued the riches and fertilitie of
those parts, abounding with things necessarie, pleasant,
and profitable for the life of man: with the natures and
dispositions of the Inhabitants. Written by a Portugall
gentleman of Eluas, emploied in all the action, and trans-
lated out of Portugese by Richard Hacklvyt. At Lon-
don Printed by Felix Kyngston for Matthew Lownes, and
are to be sold at the signe of the Bishops head in
Pauls Churchyard. 1609. [132 pages.]
II. A Relation of a Discovery lately made on the Coast of
Florida, (from Lat. 31. to 33 Deg. 45. Min. North-Lat.)
By William Hilton Commander, and Commissioner with
Capt. Anthony Long, and Peter Fabian, in the Ship
Adventure, which set Sayl from Spikes Bay, Aug. 10.
1663. and was set forth by several Gentlemen and Mer-
chants of the Island of Barbadoes. Giving an account of
the nature and Temperature of the Soyl, the manners and
disposition of the Natives, and whatsoever else is remark-