Identifier: historyofamerica02cruss (find matches)
Title: The history of America, : from its discovery by Columbus to the conclusion of the late war. : With an appendix, containing an account of the rise and progress of the present unhappy contest between Great Britain and her colonies.
Year: 1778 (1770s)
Authors: Russell, William, 1741-1793. cn
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Publisher: London : Printed for Fielding and Walker
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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has confifted only of the peninfula formed by thefea on the channel of Bahama, between Georgia and Louifiana, was difcoveredin 1497, by the famous John Cabot, to whom England is fo much indebted forher American claims, if not for her poflelTions. The different attempts of the Spaniards to conquer this country from the na-C D. 1565. tives, their jealoufy of any European nation fettling in it, and the maflacre of theFrench proteftants, have been already related *. After de Gourgues had takenvengeance on the murderers of his countrymen, in 1,-67, ^^^ Spaniards keptquiet poflcffion of Florida, till their coafls were vifited by Sir Francis Drake,who reduced all their fettlements near the fliore. Thofe fettlements neverdeferved the name of colonies ; they were little more than Spanilh garrifons, fup-ported at a confiderable expence, in order to prevent the population of a countryabounding with all the conveniencies of life, and capable of yielding moft of its * Book IV. chap. ii. luxuries.
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TI-I E HISTORY OF AMERICA. 307 hiXLiiies. St. MatheoorSt. Juan, continued to be their mofl: northerly fettlement-, CHAP. \)l.and though it is fituated on a navigable riviT, and in an agreeable and fertile ^——v~—Jplain, it was Iuffered to go to decay, and would in all probability have beenfinally abandoned, had they not difcovered thejajjafras in its neighbourhood. This tree, which is a native of America, is of a better Ipecics in Florida thanin any other part of the New World. It grows equally in the vicinity of the fea,and upon the mountains, but alwr.vs in a foil that is neither too dry nor too damp.It is ftraight and ioftv, like the fir-tree ; it has no branches, and its top is formedfomewhat m the fhape of a cup. It is an ever green, and its leaves refemblethofe of the laurel. Its flower, vv/hich is yellow, is intufed for drinking in themanner of tea. Its root, which is well known in trade, being very fervicable inmedicine, ought to be Ipungy, light, ot a greyifh colour ; of

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