A VIEWE OF THE ISLANDS.
THE FIRST PART.
CHAP. i.
The Description of Jersey, the nature of ye. Soile, number of Inhabitants, theire occupations, hauens, Townes, fortifications & other principall things therein conteined.
The Isle of Jersey in Mr. Cambdens accompt, & of others who hâve written of it, exceeds not twelve miles in lenght, & thirty or, at most, thirty six in compasse: but by a late more exact Survaye, it is found to exceed forty; and yet if one should measure it following closely the surface of ye. ground, ye. is to say descending with ye. Vallyes & then ascending with ye. Hills, there would be found a much greater proportion: for ye. whole Island esp̃ally towards the West, South & Southwest parts is a continued series of hills dales & meadowes lying betweene them, some indeed stony & barren as to corne, but for the most part capable of some kind of husbandry, as trees & Orchards, or at least pasture of sheepe, and fewell, Ferne Furzes & broome. It lay heretofore, about a hundred years since, allmost open, with fewe Inclosures in it & very fewe Orchards; the ordinary drinke of those times being, not as at p̃nt cydar, but a kind of meade made of hony as ye. principall ingrédient, of two sorts; the one called Vittoe, soe strong, that it made men drunk as cydar doth nowe; from whence there is still a Proverb vsed among the People: "Vous estes Envittoe," for one who knowes not what he doth: ye. other sort was called Boschet; for then the people
