As for the Towns or Cities of this Province, there is but a very uncertain account to be given, forasmuch as the pretended great City _Norumbegua_, from whence the Province should take its Appellation, is not acknowledg’d by any of the most authentick modern Writers, nor in any late Voyage or Discovery any mention made either of that or any other considerable Town or City. Dr. _Heylin_ supposeth it to be no other than _Agguncia_, a poor little Village, that seems compos’d of a company of Hutts or Sheaves, cover’d with the Skins of Beasts, or the Barks of Trees. But the most favourable conjecture is, that it might haply be the Ruines of an ancient Town, which the Natives call’d _Arambeck_, and had probably deserted it long before the arrival of the _Europeans_ in those parts; however, it is not very probable that the Name of the Countrey should be deriv’d from this City, if ever there were any such, or from the River, which appears to have been term’d _Norumbegua_ on purpose to make way for this derivation, whereas _Pemtegovet_ is the ancient Appellation that properly belongs to it; nor hath any modern one been apply’d to it but that of _Rio Grande_, by _Buno_ in his _Comment_ upon _Philip Cluverius_, upon what ground is hard to tell, since it is observ’d by _Heylin_ and others, to be neither large, nor otherwise much to be commended, being Navigable not above twenty or thirty Miles, in respect of its many great Cataracts and Falls of Water, an Inconvenience with which many other Rivers of _America_ are prejudic’d, and rendred impassable. Before and about the Mouth of this River, which is judg’d to be about eight or nine Miles broad, lie many small Islands, or rather Hills, inviron’d with Water, the chiefest of which is by the _French_ call’d _La Haute Isle_, from the high and Mountainous appearance of it to those that see it from afar off at Sea. The aforemention’d _Buno_, though he names, as belonging to _Norumbega_, these several places, _viz._ _Porto del Refugio_, _Porto Reale_, _Paradiso_, _Flora_, and _Angolema_, from some obscure _French_ testimonies, without particularising any Author, yet he afterwards confesses, that the Names given by the _French_, and those apply’d by the _Spaniards_, are so various and disagreeing, and breed such a confusion, that no Charts or Descriptions had concluded upon either. As for those who will have _Norumbega_ deriv’d from _Norwegia_, in respect of a Colony brought thither from _Norwey_, if the Etymologie be not a little too much forc’d, the Invention may pass well enough till a better be found out. [Sidenote: The temperature and nature of its Soil.]