In this Countrey the temperature of the Air is not bad, nor the Soil unfruitful, if it were well cultivated, chiefly towards the Rivers, and where it is not either overgrown with Woods, or craggy with Hills and mountainous Rocks: neither are the Woods unprofitable, for they afford good Timber, and all kind of necessary and useful Wood, especially Beeches, Fir-trees, Wallnut-trees, and other Nuts: The Plains are very pleasant, and yield good Pasturage, onely the Maritime Coasts are so shallow and full of Sands, that the Sailing near them is accounted somewhat dangerous; and this may be imagin’d to be the reason that no Authors have yet met with any Ports or Havens belonging to this Countrey, which they have thought worthy their notice. [Illustration] CHAP. II. New England. As _Canada_ is by some accounted a general Province, containing _New France_, _L’Accadie_, _Norumbega_, and other places, so under _Virginia_ largely taken, are comprehended _New England_, _New Netherlands_, and _Virginia_ properly so call’d; however, since that part which vulgarly goes under the Name of _Virginia_ and _New England_ were possess’d, if not discover’d, at several times, and their Plantations promoted and propagated upon several occasions, and by distinct Interests, and since _New England_ hath been look’d upon as a place considerable enough for Persons of very eminent quality to concern themselves in it, we rather are induc’d to consider this Countrey as a principal part, than as any way depending on, or being any Branch or Portion of _Virginia_. [Sidenote: Situation of _New England_.]