Salt might be made here in great abundance, there being three good Salt-pans; and Salt-petre hath been found in many Parts.
Ginger is reported to grow better here than in most of the Caribbee Islands; and Cod-pepper very plentifully; and also a certain kind of Spice call’d Piemete, being in the form of East-India Pepper, of a very aromatical and curious taste, partaking as it were of divers species together: it grows wild in the Mountains, and is very highly valu’d amongst the Spaniards.
Of Drugs and medicinal Plants there is here a very great abundance, as Guaiacum, China-Root, Cassia-Fistula, Veuillard, Achiotes, Tamarinds, Contrayerva, Ciperas, Adiantum Nigrum, Aloes, Cucumis Agrestis, Sumach, Acacia, Misselto, with several others, both Drugs, Balsoms and Gums.
Cochinele is produc’d by a Plant that grows in this Countrey, but it is not made without much care and curiosity, and the English are not yet well experienc’d in the Husbanding thereof, besides that the Growth of the Plant is much obstructed by Easterly Winds.
Beasts.
There is here greater store of Cattel than in any of the rest of the English Plantations in America, as Horses, which by reason of the great number of them, are bought very cheap.
Cow’s, of a large size, and of which vast numbers are yearly kill’d.
Asinego’s and Mules, both wild and tame, being a very serviceable sort of Cattel in those Countreys.
Sheep, large and tall, and whose Flesh is counted exceeding good, but the Fleece worth little.
Goats in great abundance, being a sort of Cattel very peculiar to that Countrey.