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His land, as we are inform’d by good Hitorians, was irt dicover’d by John Gonalvo and Tritan, under the Patronage of Henry Infanto of Portugal. But the preent Inhabitants give us a different Account of its Dicovery, viz. That in the Year 1344. an Englih Gentleman, having Married a Lady of a coniderable Fortune, and etting out with her for France from the Port of Britol, was by guty weather, and oppoite winds, driven into this Iland: Where, upon his Landing, finding it a forlorn Place, both Uncultivated and Unpeopled, he fell into an extream fit of Melancholy, and yielding too much to that black Ditemper, contributed by his his