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click here for larger image.BARBADOS.
Descriptio
per
Johannem Ogiluium.
Cosmographum Regium
A TRVE & EXACT
HISTORY
Of the Island of
BARBADOS.
Illustrated with a Mapp of the Island, as
also the Principall Trees and Plants there, set forth
in their due Proportions and Shapes, drawne out by
their severall and respective Scales.
Together with the Ingenio that makes the Sugar, with
the Plots of the severall Houses, Roomes, and other places, that
are used in the whole processe of Sugar-making; viz. the Grinding-
room, the Boyling-room, the Filling-room, the Curing-
house, Still-house, and Furnaces;
All cut in Copper.
By Richard Ligon Gent.
LONDON,
Printed for Humphrey Moseley, at the Prince’s Armes
in St. Paul’s Church-yard: 1657.
To my most Honoured, and highly esteemed Friend,
Dr BRIAN DUPPA,
Ld Bp of SALISBURIE.
Honour’d Sir,