Footnote 5: St. Domingo.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 6: History of Plants, 1576.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 7: From 1541 to 1556.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 8: West India tobacco sold for 18 shillings per pound and Virginia for 3 s.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 9: Arnold in his History of Rhode Island refers to the planting of tobacco by the Indians when the State was first settled. Elliot also says in his History of the same State:—"Tobacco was universal, every man carrying his pipe and bag; and in its cultivation only, did the men condescend to labor; but occasionally all would join, the whole neighborhood, men, women, and children, when some one's field was to be broken up, and they made a loving, sociable, speedy time of it."[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 10: Trinidad tobacco was then considered the finest.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 11: A brief and true Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (London, 1588).[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 12: The World Encompassed. London, 1628.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 13: "The Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britannica."[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 14: "Spain has doubtless conquered more of the Earth's surface than any other modern nation; and her peculiar national character has also caused her to make the worst use of them. It was always easier for the Moor to conquer than to make a good use of his conquests; and so it has always been with Spain."[Back to Main Text]