The Vallys are fruitfull & run in some Miles, but far up the Mountains are Inaccessable being very steep & frequently drenchd with rain, and the only road to ascend the Mountains is from the sea side along the ridges by which rout those who Travel them must proceed.

The produce of these Islands in General are Hogs which are large and Plenty and their flesh excellent — Goats which are also Plenty & good food — Dogs which are here esteemd a Delicacy, and are allowed by former Voyagers to equal an English Lamb — these are all the quadrupeds which they esteem good Food; they have also Cats & Rats but eat neither — and what Black Cattle has been left there they hold in no esteem — Fowles are plenty and good, and if kilid young are equal to those of Europe either for tast tenderness or Flavour; they have a number of Birds & fish which shall be described in their places. Their Vegetable productions are Fruits & Roots of Diffirent Sorts and are these—

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