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Wherein you have the fetting out of a Ship, | ver with the charges 5 The prices of all neceflaries for; |. furnifhing a Planter and his Family ar his firftcom-) | ing; A Defcription of the Countrey, Natives and Creatures, with their Merchantil and Phyfical ufe ; The Government of the Countrey as it is now pof- feffed by the Englifh,&c.A large Chronoiogical Ta- ble of ghe moft remarkable paflages,from the firft dif- covering of the Continent of America, tothe year 1693-0 ah | ee Memner. diftich rendred Englith by Dr. Heylin, Heart, take thine eafe, | Men bare to pleafe : Thou haply mighs'(t offend, Though one {peak ill Of thee, fome will | Say better, shere’s an end. London, Printed for Giles Widdows, at the Greets Dragos in St. Paul’s-Church-yard, 1674. = sae RIGHT HONOURABLE, AND MosT: ILLU STRIOUS | THE pear & F ellows OFTHE ~ Roya Socigty: | The following g Account of Two VOYAGES New Hinghaik Is Mott Humbly prefented a ae the Authout rs on ing ‘y To the Reader ; os gee U are defired by the Authour to cor- | rect fome literal fuults, which. by rea- fon of theraggednefs of the Copy have been committed. ere" putes i G. Widdows. ERRATA. * \ge 4. line 10. for Sattler, read Soufler: p. 8.1. ge fir fad, t. id: p, 126 1, 28. for porta re pint: p. 15. l.rx. for Two pouadt. Two fhillengs: | p» 16 1.27. for b ads r, [feels « p. 88. 1; 3. to the 18 ts mifplaced, it flaouid come inthe next page in the be ginning of the 101. after costrebute your belief — p. 89.1. 14. for borns, yr. bora: p. 89, 1.17. for for. law: p.99. 1.9. for this, r. bis 2 p. 98. 1. 13. for thee r. fi: p. 110. for poiat, x. foynt : p. 114s |. 9.° for ét will, rv. that will : p.118, |. 2.for conventam &, convediant : op. 132.1 7. for with, r. in: pe 153. for Auraria, rv. Awana: p, 154.) Br. for Longlace, r. Lovelace: p. 180. lg. r. true Keligiot : p. 181. 1. 16. tor main traveling Women, r~ many firarge women: {ome ftops and points . £,0 are nor rieht, as p.WSt. 1.4. the ftop fhould be at onely, fo pr8t.l.go. the flop fhould b2 after evil eyes p. 201.2, ot muff be at low water: p. 191.1. t.5. 1624. p- 397, 1-13, ¥.T dynes: p.202.1, 17. r. AcOuenticns : p.229,1-21. for aud r.who:p, 252. |. 10. xr. Thomas Dudly, Ifaac Fobnfua, Efquires * pe 274, 1. 13. and 14. fa Bacerneers, aioe i | a } | N ew-Eng land. Ra CAIN NO Dom. 1638.. April the tea 26th being Thurfday, I came to AA **' KB Gravefend and wert aboard OA the New Supply, alias, the Nis | “— cholas of London Me Ship of | good force; of 300 Tuns burden; carrying | 20 Sacre and Minion, man’d with 48. Sai- Jers, the Maller Robert Taylor, the’ Merchant _ or undertaker Mr. Edward Tinge, with — 164 Paflengers men, woinen and ehildrens (2) - As Gravefend I began my Journal; from whence we departed on the 26. of April, about Six of theclock at night, abd went down into the Hope. The 27. being Friday, we (et Gils out va the Hope, and about ‘Nine of the clock ae night we-came to an “Anchor in’ Margaret- Koad in three fathom.and a half. water : by the way we paft a States man of war, of 500 Tun, caft away a month before upon ‘the. Goodwin, nothing remaining, Vifible a- bove water but -her- main mafttop, 160 her men were drowned, the reft faved PY Fifhermen. The 28. we twined into the. Bowne. wheré Captain Clark one of His ‘Majefiies Captains i in the Navy, came aboard of us in the afternoon, and -preft. two of our Trumpeters. Here we had good ftore of Flounders from the Fifhermen, new-taken oat ofthe Sea and living, which being-rea- dily. gutted, were fry’d while, they~ were warm; me. thoughts. I never. tafe of : a delicater Fifh in all my life before. “> Fhe Third of May being Afcenfion” ay >, . in-the afternoon we weighed. out of: the” Domxgs.the wind at E. and ran’ down: into Dover Road, and lay by the lee, whill: they fene the Skiffe afhore for one of the Matters mes 3 by the way. we Sousa Sandwithyin the F i fe Hope, (3) Hope,Sandown-Cafile,Deal, So we Reered a- way for Donieffe,from thence we ficered 5, W + S.for the Beachie about one of the clock. at night the wind took usa ftayes with a. guft, rain, thunder and lightning, and now. a Servant of one of the paffengers fickned - of the {mall pox, <3 set Tate . The Fifth day in the afternoon we An- chored,the Ifle of Wight W.N.W.10 leagues: off, Beachie E. N. E. 8 leagues off, rode in 32 fathom-water at low water, at 8 of the. clock at night the land over the Needles bore N. ¥. 4 leagues off, we fiecred W.a- fore the Start, at noon the Boult was N.- W.by W. about 3 } leagues off; we were. becalmed from 7 of the clock in the morn-, ing, till 12 of theclock at noon, where we (ook good ftore of Whitings , and half a {core Gurnets , this afternoon. an infinite number of Porpijces fhewed themfelves a- bove water round about the Ship, asfar as we could kenn, the night proved tempeftu- ous with much lightning and thunder. The Sixth day being Sanday, at five of. the clock at night the Lizard was N.W. by; IY. 6 \eagues off, and the Blackhead which, isto the weftward of Falmouth. was N.W: about sleaguesoff, e2ecuk4 ty ceo As The Seventh day the uttermoft part of Sillywas N. E. 12 leagues off, and. now we began to fail by the loge. - B2 The. C4) . The Bighth day, one Boremans man a paffenger was duck’d at the main yards arm (for being drunk with his Mafters firong waters which he ftule )thrice, and fire given to two whole Sacree, at that infiant. Two mightyWhales we now faw,the one {pouted water through two great holes in her head into the Air agreat height, and making a great noife with puffing and blowing, the Seamen called her a Soutler; the other was further off, about a league from the Ship, fighting with the Sword-fith, and the Flail- fith, whofe ftroakes with a fin that growes upon her back like a flail , upon the back. of the Whale, we heard with amazement :: when prefently fome more than half as far 2pain we {pied afpout from above, it came pouring down like a River of water; So. thae if they thould light in any Ship, the were in danger to be prefently funk down into the Sca, and falkth wich fuch an ¢x- ‘ream violence all whole together as one drop, or as water out of a Veflcl, and du- red a quarter of an hour, making the Sea to boyle like a pot, and if any Veflel be near, it fucks it in. I faw many of thefe — fpouts afterwards at nearer diftance. In the afternoon the Mariners ftruck a Porpifce , ealled alfo a Marfovias ox Sea~nogg, with an harping Tron, and hoifted her aboard, 5 eee ee chey (5) they cut fome of it into thin pieces, and fryed, it tafts like rufty Bacon, or hung Beef, if not worfe; but the Liver boiled and foufed fometime in Vinegar is more grateful to the pallat. About 8 of the clock at night, aflame fettled upon the main maft, ie | was about the bignefs of a great Candle, and is called by our Seamen St. Elmes fire, it comes beforé a fiorm, and is .commonly thought tobe a Spirit’; if two appear they prognofiicate fafety ; Thefe are known to the learned by the names of Caffor and Pol- ~dux,to the Italians by St. Nicholas and St. Hermes,by the Spaniards calledCorpos Santos. The Ninth day, about two of the clock in the afternoon, we found the. head of our Main maft clofe to the cap twifted and fhive- _-red, and we prefently after found the fore- top-maft cracke a little above the cap; So they wolled them both, and about two of the clock in the morning 7 new long Boat _ Oars brake away from our Star-board quar- terwithahorridcrack, = «= § | The Eleventh day, they obferved and _ made the Ship to be in latitude 48 degrees 46 minuts, having a great Sea all night ; a-— bout 6 of the pd in the morning we fpake with Mr. Rupe in a Shipof Dart- mouth, which came from Marcelloes ; and now is Silly N. E. by E.-34 leagues off; a B 3 ae EBD -about.g.of the clock at night. we founded, and had 85 fathom water, (mall brownith ~. pepperie fand, with a fenall piece of Hakes Tooth, and now we are 45 leagues off the Lizard, great Seas all night, and now we fee ro the S, W. fix tall Ships,the wind be- ‘The Twelfth day being Whitfunday, at prayer-time we found the Ships trine.a foot by the ftern, and alfo the partie that was fick of the {mall pox now dyed, whom we ‘buried in the Sea, tying a bullet (asthe manner is ) to his neck, and another to his leggs, turned him out at a Port-hole, giving fireto a great Gun. In the afternoon one Martin Fuy a tiripling, fervant to Captain Thomas Cammock was whipt naked at the Cap-ftern, with a Ca¢ with Nine. tails, - for filching 9 great Lemmons out of the Chicane which he eat rinds and allin lefs than an hours time. _ on: The Thirteenth day we took a Sharke, a great one, and hoifted him aboard with his two Companions ( for there is never a Sharke , but hath a mate or two ) that is the Pilot-tith or Pilgrim, which lay vpon his back clofe to, a long finn; the other fh ( fomewhat bigger than the: Pilot, ) about two foot long, called a Remora, it hath no _ feales and flicks clofe ta. the Shsikes belly. age tenn So. # €n). So the Whale hath the Sea-gudgeon,a {mall fith for his mate, marching before him, and guiding him 5 ‘which I have feen likewife. The Seamen divided the Sharke into quar- ters, and made more qaarter about it chan: the Purfer, when he makes five quarters of an Oxe, and after they had cooked him, he proved very rough Grain’d, not worthy of . wholefome preferment 5. but in the after- noon we took ftore of Bonitoes, or Spanith Dolphins, a’ fith about the fize of a large Mackarel, beautified with admirable varie- tie of glittering colours in ‘the water, and wasexcellent food. — The Fourteenth day we fpake with a Plimouth man (about dinner time ) bound. for New-found-land, who having gone up weft-ward fprang a leak, and now bore back for Plimouth.Now was Silly 50 leagues off, and now many of the paflengers fall fi ck of the {mall Pox and Calenture. ~The Sixteenth Mr. Clarke, who came out of the Downs with us, and was bound for the Ifle of Providence, one of the fummer Hands ; the Spaniards having taken it a little before, though unknown, to Clarke, | and to Captain Nathaniel Butler going Go- vernour, they now departed fromus the Wind N. W. great Seas and formic winds all night. > —— B Saar The ico ieee : The Since day, the windat NW. about $ of the clock we faw 5 great Ships bound for the Channel, which was to. the Weltward of us, about two leagues off, we thought them to be Flemmings ; here we expeGted to have met with Pirates, but were happily deceived, ~The One .and. twentieth eg the wind S. by W. great Seas and Wind fu’d our courfes, and tryed from 5 of the clock af- ternoon, till4 inthe morning, the night be- ing very ftormie and dark; we loft. Mr. Giodlad and his Ship, who came out with us, and bound for Bojton in New-England. - The Bight. and twentieth day, all this while a very great Srpmin ‘Sea and mighty winds. - | Fene the firft day in the afternoon, very thick foggie. weather, we failed by an in- chanted lilindfaw a great deal of -filth and rubbith floating by the Ship, heard Camdi- mawdies, Sea-gulls and Crowes, ( Birds that alwayes frequent the fhoar ) but. could fee nothing by reafon of the mitt: towards Sun- het, when we were pat the Iilandsit resis up. ) The Fourteenth day of Guia very fog- gic weather, we failed by an Mfland of Ice which lay. on the Star-board fide ) three jag in length m mountain in high, in form of : | land, | (9) land, with Bayes and Capes like high dlife land, and a River pouring off it into the Sea. We faw likew:le two or three Foxes, — or Devils skipping upon it. Thefe Hands of Ice are congealed in the North, and brought down in the ipring-time with the Current tothe banks on this fide New-found-land, and there ftopt, where they diffolve at laft to water, by that time we had failed halt way by it,we met with a Freach Pickeroon.: Here is wasas cold as in the middle of Fz- nuary in England, and{o continued till we were fome leagues beyond ite | The Sixteenth day we founded, aid: found 35 tathom water, upon the bank of New-found-land, we calt out our hooks for Cod-fith, thick foggie weather, the Codd being taken on a Sanday morning , the Sc- _ Ctaries aboard threw thofe their fervants took into the Sea again , alchoagh ithey wanted frefh victuals, but the Ssilers were © not fo nice, among{t many that were taken, - we had fome that were wafied Fith, & it is obfervable and very firange, that fithes bo- _ dies do grow flender with age, their Tails and Heads retaining their former bignefs; Fith of all Creatures have generally the biggeft heads, and the firlt part that begins fo faint ina fith is the head. | The Nineteenth day, Captain Thomas : Cammock | (10) | Cammock ( a near kinfman of the Earl of Warwicks ) now had another lad Thomas Jones, that dyed of the {mall pox at eight of the clock at night. MES TM The Twentieth day, we faw a great — number of Sea-bats, or Owles, called alfo flying fith, they are about the bigne{sof a Whiting , with four tinfel wings, with — which they fly as long as they are wet, when purfued by other fifhes. Here like- wife we faw many Grandpi(ces or Herring- hogs, hunting the {choles of Herrings,in the afternoon we few a great fifh called the vebuella or Sword fifh,having a long, ftrong | and fharp finn like a Sword-blade on the top of hishead, with which he pierced our _ Ship, and broke it off with ftriving to get loofe, one of our Sailers dived and brought it aboard. | qrei- : | - The ‘One and twentieth day, we met with two Briftow men bound for New-Eng- — land, and now we are 100 and 75 leagues off Cape-Sable, the fandy Cape , for fo Sable in French fignifieth, off of which ly-. eth the Ifle of Sable, which is beyond New- found-land, where they take the Amphibious - Creature, the Walrus,Mors, or Sea-Horfe. The Twoand twentieth, another paflen- ger dyed of aConfumption. Now we paffed by the Southern part of New-found-land, | ere: m with -. dyed of the Phthifick. : “CHD | within, fight of it; the Southern part of New-found-land is {aid to be not above 600 leaguesfrom England. ) _ The Six and twentieth day, Capt. Thomas © Cammock. went aboard of a Barke of 300 Tuns, laden with Hland Wine, and but 7 men in her, and never a Gun, bound for Richmonds land, fet out by Mr. T: relaney of Plimouth, exceeding hot weather now. The Eight and twentieth, one of Me. Edward Ting’s the undertakers men now _ The Niné and twentieth day, founded a¢ night, and found 120 fathome water, the head of the Ship firuck againft arock 5 A¢ 4. of theclock we defcryed two fail bound tor New-found-land,and fo for the Streighes, they told as of a general Earth-quake in New-England, of the Birth of a Monfter at. Bofton, in the Maffachufers-Bay ammortality, and now we are two leagues off Cape Aun. The Thirtieth day proved flormie, and having loft the fight of Land, we faw none untill the morning ; doubtfully difcovering the Coaft, fearing the Lee.fhore all night’ we bore out to Sea. BS : Fuly the fir(t day, we founded at 8 of the clock at night,and found 93 fathome water, dcfcried land. ° ting: Weise eue _ The Third day, we Anchored in the Bay _ | ae | ? of (12) of Maffachufers before Bufton. Mr. Tinges ‘other man now dyed of the friall pox. The fenth day, I went ‘a thore upon Noddles Uland to Mr. Samuel Maverick ( for my paflage ) the only hofpitable man in all - the Countrey, giving, entertainment to. all Comers gratis. Now before I proceed any furehér, § it will not be Impestinent to give the intend- ing planter fome Inftrudtions for the fur-_ nifhing of himfelf with things neceffary, and for undertaking. the nreeee of his Family, or any others. To. which end obferve, that aship of 150 Tuns, with 2 Decks and ahalf, and -26men, with £2 pieces of Ordnance, the - charge will amount per moneth, with the Mariners, to 120 pound per fhoneth. It is better to let the Owners undertake for the Vidtualling of the Mariners, and their pay for Wages, and the Tranfporter' ‘6 only to take care of the paflengers, | ‘The common proportion of V; selwals nah the § ce toa a Mefs, being 4 — is as followeth + 5 Two pieces of Beef, of 3 pound and 4 4 Per picce. pee Sone pound of Bread! One pound ? of Peale.’ : bour ee 5) | Four Gallons of Bear, with Mufard and Vinegar for three ficth dayes in the week. For four fith dayes, to each mefs per day. © Two picces of Codd or Habberdine, making three pieces of a fith. ae t Srey ~ One quarter of e pound of Butter, . - Four pound of Bread. 27 hee Three quarters of a pound of Cheefe. : yey abe ~ Beatag before. =. a Oaimeal per day, for 50 men, Gallon 1. and fo proportionable tor more or fewer. | _ Thus youfce the Ships provifion, is Beef: OF Porke, Fife, Butter, Cheefe, Peafe, Pottage, Water-grucl, Bisket, and fix fhilling Bear. . For private frefh provifion, you may car- ry with you (in cafe you, or any of yours fhould be fick at Sea ) Conferves. of Rofes, Clove-giliflowers, Wormwood, Green-Ginger, Burnt-Wainc, Englith Spirtts, Prunes to ttew, | ~ Raifons of the Sua, Currence, Sugar, Nut- meg, Mace, Cinnamon, Pepper and Ginger, - White Biskes, or Spanifh rusk, Eggs, Rice, juice of Lemmons we\l put up to cure, or - prevent the Scurvy. Small Skillets, Papkins, Porrengers, and {mall Frying pans. | . Fo prevent or take away S:a ficknefs, Conferve of Wormwood is very proper, tui _ thefe following Troches I prefer before 1g. Firft make pafte of Sagar and Gam-Dra- gagant mixed together, then mix therewith id a (14) a teafonable quantitie. of the powder of 3 pi een atid: Ginger, and if you pleafe a little Must alfo, and make it up into Roules of feveral fafhions, which you may gild, of this when you are troubled in your ‘Sto- mach, take and eat a quentiey pete 7 to. difcretion. pee Apparel oe one init, and aes the rate fs “mores ie | Wh Se d. One attics Je SIAR Gg” - | One Mins Cap Se I-10 Three falling bands —-——- - ——o0 1-3" Thrée Shirts-- —_——-—= Oo7 6 One Waftcoat-—--—_.-—_——--—-0 2 6 One fuit of Frize-——---—--~ 0 19 © One fuit of Cloth-— O 150. One fuit of Canvas——— O77 6 Three pair of Irijh Stockins ——"0 5 0 Four pair of Shoos- — ~0 80 0 8 oO One pair of Canvas Sheets Seven ells of courfe Canvas to? © make,a bed at Sea for two a7 5 oO to befilled with ftraw————---+» eS One courte Rug at Sea for two meno 6 Oo ae: 4 F “Sam Total 4 oO = Victue. Cts) - Vidtaals for awhole year.to be carried out of _ England for one man,and fo for more’ after - 7 Hie Ssic Fo S44 m9 i the rates ere ae Hi sek Ob wet yaad day ona Eight buthels of Mea] ——~———- 2. 9 6 Two buthels of Peafe at three fhillings a bufhel phi WE Two buthels'of Oatmeal, at four}? _ and fix pence the bufhel ~~ bone ~ One Gallon of Aqua vite- gues _ One Gallon.of Oyi————--—___-5 36 ~- Two Gallons of Vinegar ——~——@ eo. : Aw o — Note © = vical etn OF Sagar and. Spice, 8 pound make the — ftone, 13 ftone and an half,z: e. 100 pound © maketh the hundred, “but your bett way is to buy your Sagar there; for it ischeapeft, — but for. Spice. -you muft carry itover with you. = ce os eee ee A Hogthead of Englifh Beefy “Wall COR ae & Hogthead of -Irif Beef will’ Goft-2 10 A Bartel of -Oztmeal- - et eS A Hogthead of Aqua-vite will coft-4 0° A Hogfhead of Vinegar ene Loe A-bufhelof Muftard-feed -<-22- -~0 6 QO QF OQ. OO (16) _A Keatal of fith, Cod or Habberdine is | 112 pound, will coft if it be merchantable fith, Two or three and thirty Rialsa Kental, if ie be refufe you may have i it for 10 OF If fhillings a Rental. | Warden Wares ZS : | Vs I Se de S -2°0 A pair of Bellowes soa A Skoope— 7 A pair of Wheels for a Cart, it } you buy them in the ae 9 14 0 ghey will coft 3 or 4, pound | Wheelbarrow you may have there’ 6 in England they coft ele Agreat pailin England will coft--.o ¢— 10 A Boat called a Cano w,will coft | se 0 0) in the Countrey ( with a pair of Paddles )if it be a good one _A fhort Oake ladder in England 00 I¢ 6 | will coft but - _o A Plough eae toe 3 9 An Axletree ---—--——---.—_9 0 3 A Cart-———---__~-—___.-___-9 10 0 For ‘calling fhovel OO 16. For a {hovel —---——__— eo 6 For a Sack “-———-—--—-@ 2 4 Fora pone sateen “Oo I 3 For Tobacco pipes fhort beads, and great Douls Be pence and 16 pence she ent : ror (17, . For sipbing an an hundred theep in}, : 3) Englaud For winding the Wool—=—0 | & For wafhing them: For one Garnifh of Petiter — ae Prizes of Iron Wares 7 Arms for one ¢ man, but if balf - your men bave Armour it is fuffictent, fe that all have Pieces and froords. > One Armour -compleat, light— One long, piece five foot, or ine, and a half near Maske, bore One Sword - One Bandaleer-——= 2 One Bk Twenty pound of powder - - Sixty pound of {hot or adi ‘% and Goofe fhot : e Tools for a a F malty of Six er te = : s : : and fo after the rate for mores Five broad howes at two tiling a piece = picce 0.5 ce | © 10-0 Five narrow. -howes at 16 pence a z. Bos | 5 bt Ae i tsi ( 4 i | a Sar ‘i it : : ca aa as 7 ‘ ae ms a f ve av ean i 4 # | Py re ; ™ aren © © Or aig © Oath @ Oa Net Sag) tage 7 hy + ¥ ’ z : ” oo 08D) a | ee f ed fe \ de | Five felling Axes at 18 pence a pieceo” 7 6 Two fteel hand- lawes 3 at 16 Pence’? ah _ ihe piece ~~ GOS 58) "Pwo hand- lawes at 5 Ahllings a HARES piece. ¢ Se Ts eS One whip faw, > fet and filed elo Pere with box | tows bs Pe A file and wreft a 0.°o 10 - Two Hammers 13 pence a piece~0 eo ‘Three fhovels 18 pence'a piece fhado- 4 6 Two f{pades 18 pence'a piece----5- 3 0 Two Augars- materia: Oo 1 x; wv 8 pence -a- Piece Six Chiffels Fhree Gimblets—=— Two Hatchets” One and Be “perice a piece | Two froues to leave! pals at ee pence a. piece © rare Hf: -Twohand-bills at 20 pence a pieces Nails of all forts to be. valu cd ce Two pick-Axes-.- - Three Locks, and 3 pair of Fides “10 Two Currie. Combs--—-—— _—___— -O 0 It For a Brand to brand Bealts with--6" OC. Py BoraiChain and lock for a Boaj—o- (ae ey per a Coulter ede ro pound5° 3 4 Por @ Hiandsvile ea OE 6 = For Two ‘broad Axes. at. 3 pny fer scent i t a 4 ~ LLG # rt a O DQ AO + =O. QO of BO 8. gOS 0 ww co OM NT =] Cay Sali 3 For a Bitch-f lide i gt For one hundred cache of. Sette: 3 o Nails and pins 120, to the hundred | = For a hare: a ee Pie ay ; Houftrould rabhiniser for a F amily ; of fix perfons,and fo ‘eth more or — — the rate. One Iron Pot- i 0 For one great Copper Kettl——2 0 0 For a {mall Kettle 9 10 © For a leffer Keetle ~ 0 6 0 For one large Feria: pan——--——-0 2 6° For a {mall Frying- sie =e - S For a brafs Morter- Oo 30 oe Fora erase oo 2 0 For one: Gad Nowe O21 O. For two Skillets ——0 5 @ Platters, dithes, & iene if wort e" For Sugar, Spice and ituits at 2 Sk i 5 for fix men , The fraught will be for 0 ome man velf a@lun - Having refrethed my ble far vaiie two upon Noddles-ifland, Leroffed the Bay Ina {mall Boat to Boffoz, which then wss rather a Village, than a Town; there bese ae 2 Hoe (20) vot above Twenty or thirty houfes ; and prefenting*my refpedts to Mr. Winthorpe the Governour, and to Mr. ‘Cotton the Teacher of Boftoi Church, to whom I deli- vered from Mr. Francis Quarles the poet, the Tranflation of the 16,25, 51, 88, 113, and 137. Plalmsinto Exglijp Mecter, for his approbation, being civilly treated by all I had occafion to converfe with, ‘T returned inthe Evening tomy lodging. - ~ ~The Twelfth day of Fuly, after~ I had ‘elias my leave of Mr. Maverick, and fome . other: Gentlemen., I took, Boat for the Raftern parts of the Countrie,and arrived at Black pointin-the Province of _Main, which | is 150 miles from Bojton, the Fourteenth day, which makes. my soyent It weeks and ra edayes. » The Countrey all along, as I failed, bout no other than a meer Wildernefs, here and there bythe Sca-fide.a few. fcattered planta- tions, with as few honfes. . ‘About the Tenth of Augaft, ‘I bapned ‘fo walk into the Woods , not-tar trom the, § .-lide, and falling. upon "a piece of ground. over-grown with buthes, called there black Corrénce,-but differing from our Garden Currenee , they being ripe and hanging, in love ly. bunches.s d fer up my piece againita Hately Oal ke, wich a xefolution to hllmy 3 i) (21) | belly , being near half a mile. from’ the | houfe; of a fudden I heard a. hollow. thumping. noife upon the Rocks approach= ing towards me, which made me prefently to recover my piece, which Phad no fooner cock’d, than a great and grim .over-grown ~ the- Wolf. appears , at. whom I fhot, and: finding her Gor-belly ftuft with fleth newly. | taken in, I began prefently to-fufpe@ that: fhe had fallen foul upon our Goats, which: were then valued ( our fhe Goats ) at Five pound a Goat; Therefore to make further: difcovery, I defcended ( it being low wa- ter ) upon the Sea fands, with an intent to walk round’ about a neck of land where the Goats ufually kept. I had not gone far before I found the footing of two Wolves, and one Goat betwixt. them, whom they had driven into a hollow, betwixt two Rocks, hither I follawed their footing, and - perceiving by the Crowes,. that there was _ the place of flaughter, I hung, my piece up- on.my back, and upon. all four clambered up to the: top of the Rock, where Imade — _ ready my piece and fhot at the dog Wolf, who was. feeding upon the remajnder of the Goat,which was only the fore fhoulders, ‘head and horns, the reft being devoured by the the- Wolf, even to the very -hair of the | Goat and j it is very obfervable, that ~_ | | C the (22)) the Wolves have kill’'d a Beaft,ora Hog, not a Dog- Wolf amongi{t them offers to eat any of it, till the fies Wolves have fd: their paunches. , The Twenty firth of Seprember, betta Munday about 4 of the clock in the after- noon, a fearful ftorm ‘of wind .beganto rage, called a Hurricane. It is an impetuous wind shat goes commonly about the Compafs inthe {pace of 24° hours, it began from the Ww. N. W. and continued till next morning, the greateft mifchief it did us, was the wracking of our Shallop, and the blowing down of many tall Trees, in fome places amiletogether. — December the Fenth, happened an Eclipfe of the Moon at 8 of the clock at night, it continued cill after: II, asnear as we could © guefs; in old Englandit began after mid- night, and continued till 4 of the clockin the morneng 5 if Seamen won aM make obfervation of the time, either of the beginning or ending of the Eclipfe, or total darknefs of Sun and — Moow in all places where they (pall bappen to | be, and confer their obfervations to fame Arsift, hereby the longitude of all places might be certainly known, which are now bes uncer tainly reported tous. © 7 3639. May, which fell outto be: cxtream hot and foggie, about the middle of kittd gp OW kill?’d within a fones throw of our houfe, above four fcore Snakes, fome of them: as — big as the {mall of my leg, black of colour, and three yards long , with a tharp horn — on the tip of their — tail two: inches in length = | SO Betas er ~Fune the Six and twentieth day, very ftormie, Lightning and’ Thunder. Eheard now two of the greateft and fearfulleft ‘thander-claps that ever were heard, I am confident. At thistime we had fome neigh- bouring Gentlemen in our houfe , who — came to welcome me into the Co intrey 5 where’ amongft variety of difcourfe they told me of a young Lyon(not long before ) kill’d at Pifeataway by am Indian, of a Sea- Serpeut or Snake, that lay quoiled up like a Cable upon ‘a Rock at Cape-Ann: a Boat pafling by with Englifh aboard, andtwo Indians, they would have thot the Serpent, but the Indians diflwaded them , faying, that if he were not kill’d out-sight, they -would be all indanger of theirlives. ©. ~~ One Mr. Mittin related: of a Triton or Mereman which he faw in Cafcobay, the Gentleman was a great Fouler, and ufed to. goe out witha fmall Boat or Canow, and ‘fetching a compafs about a {mall Vil nd, - q ( there being many {mall Ifandsinthe Bay) for the advantage of a thot, was encountred ats : C4 = with 4) with a ‘Triton, who laying: his hands’ upon the fide of the Canow,had one of them chopt | off with a Hatchet by Mr. Mittix#, which ~was in all refpedts like the hand\of a man, the Triton prefently funk, dying’ the water. with his purple: blood, ‘and was no more een. The next. ftory. was told by Mr. Foxwell, now ‘living in the province of lain, who having been tothe Eaftward. in aShallop, as far as: Cape-Ann-a Waggon in his return was overtaken by the night, and fearing to land upon the barbarous fhore, he _ put off alittle furtherto Sea; about mid- | night they were wakened with a loud voice ‘from the fhore,calling upon Foxwell,F oxwell come a fhore,twoor three times ; upon the Sands they faw. a great: fie, and Men and Women hand in hand dancing, round about itin aring, after an hour or »two they va- nithed, and as foon as the day appeared, F svearel putsinto afmall Cove, it being about three quarters floudjand traces along the | firore, where he Fiend the footing of Men, “Women and Children fhod with thoos 5 and -an infinite numberof brands-ends thrown sap by the water, but- neither Indian nor Englifh could, he meet with onthe thore, ‘nor in the woods s thefe with. many other ftories they told: me; the credit whereof et will neither impeseh nor inforde; but th jl | fatishe = (25, fatisfie my felf, and I hope the Goaled here- of, with the faying of a wife, learned and honourable Knight > that there are many flranger things in the world, thax are to be feen between London and Stanes.. September the Sixth day, one Mr. Fob | Hick ford the Son of Mr. Hick ford a Lirinen- Draper in Cheapfide, having been fometime _ inthe province of Main, and now determi- ned to return for England, fold and kill’d his ftock of Cattle and Hoggs, one great Sow he had which he made great account ~ of, but being very fat, and not fafpeAing chat the was with pig, he canfed her to be kilPd, and they found 25 pigs within her belly 3 verifying the old proverb, As fruitful asa whitefow, And now we were told of afow in Virginia that brought forth fix pigs , their fore-parts Lyons, their hinder- _ parts hogs. I have read that at Bruxels, Anno 1564: 4 fow brought forth fix pigs, the fit whereof ( for the lat in generating is alwayes in bruit beafts the firlt brought forth ) had the bead, face, arms and legs of a man, | but the whole trunck of the body from the peck, was of a fwine, afodomitical monfter is more like the mother than the father in the or- gans of the vegetative foul, The Three and twentieth, Left Black: | point, and came to Richmonds Ifland iat cnrce (26) | three leagues tothe ‘Eafiward, where Mr. Fralanie kept a fifhing, Mr. Fbn Winter a grave and difcreet man was his Agent, and imployer of 60 men upon that defign, The Four and twentieth day being Mun- o diy, I went aboard the Fellowfbip of 100 and 70 Tuns aFlemifh bottom, the Matter George Luxon of Bittiferd in Devonjbire, fe- veral of my friends came to bid me fare- well, among the reft Captain Thomas Wan- —nerton who drank fo me_a pint of kill-de- vil alias Rhum at adraught, at 6 of the, | clock in the morning we weighed Anchor; and (et fail for the Maffachufets-bay. a The Seven and twentieth day being Fry- day, we Anchored in the afternoon in the Maffachufets-bay before Bofton. Next day T went aboard of Mr. Hinderfon, Mafier of a thip of 560 Tuns, and Captain Fackfow in the Queen of Bobemia a privateer, and — from thence I ‘went afhore to Bofton, where: I refrefhed my felf at an Ordinary. Next morning I was invited to a fifhermans houfe fomewhat lower within: the Bay, and was there by his Wife prefented with a hand- ful of {mall Pearl, bat none of them'bored nor orient. From ‘thence I croft the Bay to @harles-tomn, where at one Longs Ordinary “Imet with Captain Fackfon and others, walking on the back fide we {pied a rattle | | Snake | (27) ee Snakea yard and half long, and as thick in the middle as the fmall of a mans leg, on _ the belly yellow, her back {potted with black, ruffet, yellow and green, placed like {cales, at her tail the had a rattle which js nothing but a hollow fhelly buftinef joynt- ed, look how many years old fhe is, fo ma- ny rattles fhe hath in her tail, her neck feem- ed to be no bigger than ones Thumb 3 yet the {wallowed a live Chicken, as big as one they give 4 pence for in England, prefently as we werc looking on. In the aftérnoon I returned to our Ship, being no fooner - aboard but we had the fight of an Indian- Pinnace failing by us made of Birch-bark, fewed. together with the roots of fprufe and white Cedar ( drawn out into threads )with. adeck,and trimmed with fails top and top gallantvery fumptuoufly, 9, * The Thirtieth day of September, ¥ went afhore upon Noddles-Ifland, where when I was come to Mr. Mavericks he would not let me go aboard no more, until the Ship was ready to fer fail; the next day a grave _ and fober perfon defcribed the Monfter to me, that was born at Boftoz of one Mrs. Dyer a great Sectaric, the Nine aud eventieth of June, it was (it fhould feem ) without a bead, but having borns like 2 Beaft, and etrs, feales on a rough skin like a fib ie da pene Se sas (28) called @, Thornback, legs and claws like a Hawke, and in other refpecis as @ Woman- child. geet BAS “ee The Second of OGober, about. 9 of the clock in the morning,Mr. Mavericks Negro | woman came tomy chamber window, and in her own Countrey language and tune fang very loud and fhril, going out, to. her, fhe ufed a great deal of refpect towards — -. me, and willingly would have expreffed her grief in Englifhy but Lapprehended it by her countenance and deportment, whereup- on I repaired to. my hoft, tolearn of him. the caufe, and refolved to intreat himin her behalf, for that Tunderftood before , that fhe had been a Queen in her own Countrey, and obferved avery humble and - dutiful garb ufed towards her by another _ Negro who was her maid. Mr. Maverick was defirous to have a breed of Negroes, | and therefore feeing fhe would not yield by perfwafions to company with a Negro young man he hadin his houfe; he com- , manded him willd the nilld the to goto - bed to her, which wasno fooner done buc — the kickt him out again, this the took in high difdain beyond her flavery, and this was the caufe of her grief. In the after- noon I walked into the Woods on the back fide of the houfe, and happening into a Sih Sy ee SR ~*” fine \ (a) fine broad walk (which was a fledg. - way) I wandered till I chanc’t to fpye a fruit as I thought. like a pine Apple plated with . {cales, it was as big as the crown. of a Wo- mans hat 3 I made bold to ftep unto it, with an intent. to have gathered it, no foo- ner had £toucht it, but hundreds of Walps were about me; at laft Icleared my fel€ from them, ‘being ftung only by one. upon the upper lip > glad Lwas that. 1 fcaped. fo well; But by that time Iwas come. into: the houfe my lip was {well’d fo extreamly, that they hardly knew me but by my: Gar- ments. _.The.Tenth of Oéteber, I wetit sbaand ‘and we fell down to Navtafeor, here Mrs Davies (Mr. Hicks the Apothecarie in Fleet-- ftreets, Son-in-law ) dyed of the Phthifick a- board on a Sunday in the afternoon. -. The nextday Mre Laxon our Matter. having ‘been afhore upon. the Governours. Ifland, gave me half a {core very fair Pi pins which he brought from thence, there eing not one Apple-tree, nor Pear planted yet in no part of the ee but Bas that Hiland.-. | The Fifteenth day, we fur fail from, den Palcot. <=. <: . The Sixteenth day Mr. Robert Foter, or one of our vag Preached aboard Os the (30) ihe 1 113 Pialm; The Lord foall preferve iby going out,e thy coming ins The Sectarics be- gan to quarrel with him, efpecially Mr. _ Vincent Potter, he who was afterwards que- 2 ftioned for a Regicides ee The Seventeenth day, towards Suntet a Lanner fettled upon our main Maft-top, when it was dark I hired one of the Sailers tofetch her down, and I brought her into England with much ado, being fain 'to. feed _ herwith hard Eggs. After thisday we had _ very cold weather at Sea, our deck ina morning ore-{pread with hoarie froft, and dangling Ifickles hung ‘upon the Ropes. Some fay the Sea is hotter in winter, than in fammer but I did not find it fo. , Era ‘November the Fifth day, about three of the clock in the afternoon, the Mariners | _ obferved the rifing of alittle black cloud in the Ni”. which incteafing apace , made — them prepare again{t a coming ftorm, ‘the _ wind ‘in fhort time grew to boitletous,bring- _ ing after us a huge grown sts at of the - clock 1 it was pitchie pole 2 : Ant the bitter form augments the ‘wild | winds wage i War from all parts 5 ond joyn with the Seas rage. 7 The (31), T be fad clouds fink, in a) 3 sir wild a have thought, 50 *S | That bigh Soon ease coer anto. Hoon ba “-prought 5 And es to Seas afer ca 7 frown a. Mie ees Blind nialt in y deka ee ad he OWR | Dread tervours oft 5 ace ‘this dir ire icbing a turns — (aa —— To more sfear'd lights > the Sea with signing Burns. 3 The Pilot knew not Ee to chufe or he: : Art fioga amaz a i in Ambiguity. = The form auEmenting fill , ‘be next day about 4 of theciock afternoon we loft our Rudder, and with that our hopes, fo neceflary a part ic is, that a thip without it, is like a wild horfe. ‘without a_bridle 5. yee | Ariftosle that Eag e-ey d Philofo opher could not give areafon, why fo {mall a thing as a aoe rule the Pe: | . The (32) The Seventh day at night, the. wind bes gan to dye away, the next day we had. lea- {ure to repair our breaches; it continued calm till the 13 day, and all the while. we: {aw many dead bodies of men and women Hoating by us. The Four and twentieth, we arrived ‘ba “fore Bittiford, having pall before undet Lane oe: - ‘The saasastnseanssstee ‘The - ‘Second VOYAGE. Have heard of a certain Merchant in| the weft of Exglznd, who after many -gteat loffes, walking upon the Sea-” mi bank in a calth Sun-fhining day; ob- ferving the fmoothnefs of the Sea, coming in with a chequered or ditnpled wave > Ah( quoth he ) thou flattering Element; many a zie 3 hati thou inticed the to throw thinking to to°find hee a Mathes of net _Thave found thee to be the Mother of duit chief and wickednefs 5 ‘yea the Father of prodigies ; therefore, being now fecure! I will eruft thee no more: But mark this. mans refolution a while after spericulam mars Ses lucri fuperat. So fared it with me; that having elcaped the dangers of oné Voyage, ; mut needs put on a refolution fora fecond, wWhereia T I plowed bie a chiuslith billow | | with (34) with litdle or no advantage, but rather to my lofs and detriment. In the fetting down, whereof I purpofe not to infiflin a metho- dical way, but according to my. quality, in a plain and brief-relation as Ihave done al- ready 5 for I perceive, if I ufedall the Art that poflibly I could, it would be difficultto pleafe all, for all mens «yes, ears, faith, judpetnent, are not of a fize. There be a fort of flagnant flinking {pirits; who, like flyes, lye fucking at the botches of carnal plea- fures, and never travelled fo much Sea, as is between Heth-ferry; and Lyon-Key 3 yet notwithftanding, (fitting in the Chair of the {cornful over their whifts and draughts of intoxication ).-will defperately cenfure the relations of the greatetft Travellers, It, was.a good previfi of alearncd Man, never » to xeport wonders, for in doing, of the greateft he will be dure ne be believed, but laughed at, which certainly bewraies their, ignorance and. want of difcretion. Of — Foots and Mad-men then I fhall. take no. care, I will not invite thefe in the leaft to honour me witha glance from their fuper- cilicus eyes; but sather advife them. to. ' keep their infpc@tion for their finetongwd. Romances,and playes. This homely piece, 1 proteft ingenuouily, is prepared for fuch only — wha well know how to make ufe of their | cha- — by W. at Nore. (35) | charitable conftruGtions towards works of ‘this nature, to whom I fubmie my felf in all my facultics, and proceed in my fecond voyage. as hee eee Ree Anno 1663. May the Three and twen- _tieth, Twente down: to Gravefend, itbeing Saterday U lay afhore till Monday the fifth, — about 11 aclock at night, I went aboard the Society belonging to Bofton in the Maffa- chufers a Colony of Englifh in New-England, of 200 and 20 Tun, carrying 16 Iron Guns’ moft unferviceable, man’d with 33 {ailess, a 77 paliengers, men, women and chil- ren. The Six and twentieth day, about 6 of the clock in the morning we weighed An- chor, and fell down with the tide three. or four miles below Gravefend. : The Seven and twentieth in the after-— noon, we weighed Anchor and came into the Hope before Deal-Caftle, here we. were wind bound till F be dent The 30 day, we fet fail ont of the Downs , being Saturday about g of the clock in the morning, about 4 of the clock in the afternoon we came up with Beachy 3 : 4 1 _ The One and thirtieth at 4 of the clock in the morning we came up with the Ile of Wight, ata of the clock in the afternoon D 2 We C36) we chad Portland N.N. W. of us, 6 leagues off, the wind being t then at WN. W. by N. at 5 Of the clock we came to Dartmouth, the wind VW. §.W. : ’ - Fune the firf Pee being’ Monday about 4 of the clock Plimouth was about 9 leagues “off, our courfe 7. S. W. the Start bore North diftant about 6 leagues from whence ‘our reckonings began 3 the wind ene ‘E. N. Eva fais gales Fhe fecond day the Lizard ext N, W. W. ‘in the latitude 51. 300 leagues from Cape-_ ‘Cod in New England, our courfe #7. and by “§:-One of our paflengers now dyed of a Confumption. The Fifth day we fleered S: vw. obferved and found the’ hip in latitude 47 degrees, ‘and 44 minutes, ~~ 3 _- The Tenth day obferved “eh ita the fhipin la'i tide 49 degrees, and 24 minutes. ‘The Five and twentieth day, about 3 of ‘the’ clock in, the:morning we difcovercd land, about 6 of the clock Flow:rs,fo called : from abundance of flowers, and Corvo from a multitude of “Crdwes 3 two of the AZzn*S “ef weltern Hlands, in the’ Atlantique Ocean Hit above 256 ledeues: from Lisbon bore NW” of us tome 3 leagues off. we fleered “away VY. by WP oblerved and found Flemers — =e umes in the Prepress 34 part in anne 39 de- = | moe B res ee LT eae _ grees 13 minuts, we defcryed a Villageand _ a fmall Church or Chappel feated in a plea- fant valley to the Eafter-fide of the Mand, _the whole filand is rockie and mountanious _ about 8 miles in compafs, ftored with Corn, __ Wine and Goats, and inhabited by out-— law’d Portingals, the Town they call Sanzz Cruz. Corvo is not far from this, I fuppofed — two or three leagues,a meer mountain, and very high and fieep on all fides, cloathed — with tall wood onthe very top, uninhabi- _ ted, but the Flowreans here keep fome num- ber of Goats. | Sea = The Seven and twentieth day, 30 leagues tothe weftward of thefe Iflands we met — witha {mall Veffel ftoln from Famzaico, but — | 10 menin her,and thofe of feveral nations, - Englifh, French, Scotch, Dutch almoft fa- mith’d, having been out as they told us, by © reafon of calms, three moneths, bound for Holland. — aes So July the fixth, calm now for two or — _ three dayes, our men went out to fwim, _ fome hoifted the Shallop out and took divers Turtles, there being an infinite number of them all over the Sea as far as we could ~ Ken, and aman may ken at Sea in a clear Air 20 miles, they floated upon the top of the water being a fleep, and driving gently ° upon them with the Shalop, of afudden_ oe DS they pee (38) a they took hold of their hinder legsand . lifted them into the boat, if they be not — very nimble they awake and prefently dive under water;. when they were brought aboard they fob’d and wept exceedingly, continuing to do fo till the next day that . we killed them,by chopping off their heads, and having taken off their fhells ( that on | their back being faireft, is called a Gally patch ) we opened the body and took out — three hearts in one cafe, and ( which was more firange ) we perceived motion in the hearts ten hours atter they were taken out. | I have obferved in England in my youthful dayes the like in the heart of a Pike, and the heart of a Frog, which will leap and — skip as nimbly as the Frog ufed to do when it was alive from whom it wastaken. Like- wife the heart of a Pig will fiir after it is exenterated. Being at a friends -houfe in Cambridg-fhire, the Cook-maid making rea- _ dy toflaughrer a Pig, the put the. hinder parts between her legs asthe ufual manner is,and taking the (nut in her left hand with | a long knife the ftuck the Pig and cut the {mallend of the heart almott in two, letting. it bleed as long as.any blowd came forth, then throwing of irinto a Kettle of boy-. ling water, the Pig {wom twice round a- bout the k-ttle, when taking of it ont to. | ; the igs the dreffer fhe rubd it with powdered Rozen _and fiript off the hair,and as the was cutting off the hinder pettito, the Pig lifts up his head with open mouth, as if it would have bitren : well, the belly was. cut up, and the entrails drawn out, and the heart laid upon the board, which notwithftanding the . wound it received thad motion in it, above four hours after ; there were feveral of the Family by, with my felf, and we could not otherwayes conclude but that the Pig was bewitched ;but this. by the way. Of the Sea Turtles there be five forts, firft the | Trunck-turtle which is biggeft, Secondly, the Loggerhead-turtle. Thirdly, the Hawk- bill-turtle, which with its bill will bite hor- ribly, Fourthly,the Green-turtle which is beft for food, it is afiermed that the feeding upon this Turtle for atwelve moneth, for- bearing all other kind of food will cure. abfolutely Confumptions, and the great pox; They are avery delicate food, and their Eges are very wholefome and _reftora- _ tive, it is an Amphibions Creature going -_afhore, the male throws the female on. her. back when he couples with her, which is | termed cooting, their Eges grown to ptr- fection the female goes afhore again and making a hole in the Sand, there layes her Eggs which are numerous, I have feena peck (49) of: Eges ‘taken out of one Turtle; wher they ‘have laid they ccver the hole again | with fand , and return to‘ the Sea’ never looking after her Eggs, which | hatching in the fand and coming to fome firength break out and repair to the Sea. Having fil?'d our bellies with Turtles’ and Bonito’s, called Spamjh Dolphins excellently. -well cooked meh of them, the wind blowing fair, The Righth day.we {pread our fails and went on ‘our vcyage, after a while we met with abundance of Sea-weeds called Gul*- ‘weed coming: out of the Bay of Mexico, and firr-trees'floating on the Sea, ‘obferved and found the edie to Beit 39 degrees “ 49 minuts., © © The: Fiieeeiiths ag we vtdate a. young Shiarke about three foot long, -which being dreft_ and difhed: by a young Merchant a> pafienger happened to be very good fith, having very white flefhin flakes hike Codd but delicately curl’d, the back-bone which | is perfetly round, joynted: with hort | Joynts, the: “fake between not above a quar- ter of en inch thick, {epatated® they make ‘fine’ Table-men, ‘being apenas on aissil fides with curious works. 7 “The One: and cbiaed ieee: hate wea- ther. gel St - The- Five! anid: ‘orenteth we! met: eniili ~ i | ae (41) Plimouth man come from: St. Malloes. in France, to weeks out, laden with cloath, fruit, and honey, beecd for Bofton i in New: England. | The Six and twentieth wehad 6 ght of land. The Seven and sates we Aaichined at Nantafcot,in the afternoon I went aboard of a Ketch, with fome other of our paffen= _ gers, in hops to get to Boffon that night 5 but the Mafter of the. Reich. would not con- fent. The Eight and twentieth being T. ibe | - in the morning about 5 of the clock he lene us his Shallop and three of his men, who brought us to the weftern end of the town _ where we landed, and having gratified the men, we repaired to an Ordinary ¢ for fo they call their Taverns there ) where we were provided with a liberal cup. of burnt Madera-wine, and ftore of* plum-cake, a- bout ten of the clock I went about my | Adiairs. | » Before I purfue. my Voyage to an ane I thall give you to underftand what Countrie New-England is, New-England is that part of America, which togetherewith Vire ' ginia; Mary-land, and Nova-fcotia were by the Indiaus called ( by one-name ). Winga- dacoa, after the difcovery by Sir Walter oan Rapleige (42) Rawleigh they were named Virginiz, and fa remained -unull King James divided the | Countrey into Provinces. New-England then is all that tract of land that lyes be- tween. the Northerly latitudes of 40 and 46, that is from De-la-ware-Bay to New- found-land , forme will have it to be 1m lati- tude from 41 to 45.1n King Fame’s Letters Patents to the Council of Plimouthin De- vonfbire from 40 to 48 of the fame latitude, it is judged to be an Mand, furrounded on the Norch with the fpacious River of Ca- nada, on the South with Mabegan or Hud- fons River, having their rife, as itis thoughr, from two great lakes not far off one ano- ther, the Sea lyes Eaftand South from the — — Jand, and is very deep, fome fay that the dipth of the Seabemng meafured with line and plummet, feldom exceeds two or three miles, exc pt in fome places near’ the Swe- vian-(hores, aid about Pontus, obferved by Pliny. Sir Francis Drake threw out 7 Hogs- heads of line near Porto-bello and; found no » bottom, but whether this be true or no, or that they were deceived by the Currants carrying away their lead and line, thisis — certainly true, that there is more Sea_in the Weftern than the Eaftern Hemifpbere, on — the fhore in more places than one at fpring- tides, that is at the full or new of the moon, GoTISRaZ : che (43) the Sea rifeth 18 foot perpendicular,the rea™ fon of this great flow of waters I refer tothe: learned,onely by theway I fhall acquaint you with two rcafons for the ebbing and flow=: ing of theSea; the one delivered in Com-. mon conference, the otherin a Sermon at_ Bofton in the Maffachafets-Bay by an eminent man; The firft was, that God and bis {piri | moving upon the raters caufed the motions the other,that the fpirit of the waters gathered the waters togethers as the {pirit of Chrift gathered Souls. 1 The fhore is Rockie, with high cliffs, 7 having a multitude of confiderable Hare bours,; many of which are capacious enough for a Navy of 500 fail, one of a thoufand, the Countrie within Rockte and mountanious, full of tall wood, one fiately” mountain there is furmounting the reit, a- | bout four {core mile from che Sza: The. de(cription of it you have in my rarities of New-England, between the mourtiins arc” many ample rich and pregnant valleys as ever eye beheld, befet on each fide with va- riety of goodly Trees, the prafs man-high | unmowed, uneaten and ufelcily withering:s. within: thefe valleys are {pacious lakes: or - ponds well ftored with Fifh and Beavers; the» / original of all the great Rivers in the Coun- trie, of which there are: many with leffer : pS flreams . i a (44) ftrearus (wherein ‘are an infinite of fith) manifefting the goodnefs of the foil which is black, red-clay, gravel, fand,loom, and very deep in fome places, as in the valleys’ and fwamps, which are low grounds and bottoms infinitely thick fet with Trees and Buthes of all forts for the moft part; o- thers having no other fhrub or Tree grow-’ ing,but fprufé,under the (hades whereof you may freely walk two or three mile toge- ther; being goodly large Trees, and conve-: nient for mafts and fail-yards. The whole Countrie produceth fprings in abundance — seplenifhed with excellent waters, having all the properties afcribed to the beft j in | the. world. | | | Swift ist in : paces Ugh poz’, to bok tt clear, , And. quick in boiling € which “efeemed were ) Such qualities , as rightly sib oad Withouten thefe no water could be ae One Spring thereis, at Black-point iz the | Provence of Main, coming out of muddy-clay that will colour a fpades as if hatebt. with fil- : oer it 3s Ji nao and cures - ee — ; aa | “The Mountains: avid ‘Roiky! Hills are. richly f tases with mines of Lead S. isk 2 | Cop. (45) - | Copper, Tin, and divers forts of minerals, branching out even to their fummits,where Jn fmall Crannies you may meet with threds ‘of perfect tilver; yet have the Englifh no maw to open any of them, whether out of ignorance or fear of bringing a forraign Enemy upon them, or (like the dog in. the inanger ) to keeptheir Soveraign from par- taking of the benefits, who certainly may — claim an intereft inthem as his due, being . eminently a gift proceeding from . ..; > ‘divine Akt tohim; no perfon 14% 3°. can pretend intereft in Gold, Silver ,.or Copper by the law of Nations, but-the Soveraign Prince ; but the fubje&s. of -our King have a right to mines difcovered- in theix own Lands and inheritances; So ‘as that every tenth Tunof fuch Oar is-to ‘be ‘paid tothe proprieters of fuch lands, and Not to the fiate, if icbe not. a mine-Royal; if it prove to be a mine-Royal, every fifth _ Tun of all fuch Oar as fhall hold Gold or Silver worth rcfining, is to be rendered to the King. The learned Fudges of our Kiug- dom have long fince concluded, that alibough- the Gold or Silve? conseined in the bafe mettals of a mine in the land of a Subj EL, be of lefs value than the bafcr mettal yet if the Gold - or Silver do countervail the charge of refining it, or be more worth iban the bafe mettal {pene | | in i 39 ee “an refining it, that then it is a mine-Royal, ‘and as well the bafe mettal as the Gold and ‘Silver in it belongs by prerogative to the “Crome Bre Se | - The ftones in the Countrey are for the ‘moft mettle-ftone, fyee-ftone, pebble, flate, ‘none that willrunto lime, of which they have great want, of the flate you may make Tables eafie to be fplit to the thick- nefs of an inch, or-thicker if you pleafe, and long enough for a dozen men to fit at. Pretious ftones there are too, but if you de- fireto know further of them, fee the Rari- ties of New-England , oncly let me add this obférvation by the way , that Cryfial fet in the Sun taketh fire, and fetteth dry ‘Tow or brown Paper on fire held to it. ‘There is likewife a fort of glittering fand, which is altogether as good as the elafflie _ ‘powder brought from the Indies to dry . up Ink on paper newly written. The cli- mate is reafonably temperate , hotter in ‘Summer, and colder in Winter than with us; agrees with our Conftitutions better than hotter Climates, thefe are limbecks to our bo- dies, forraign beat will extralt the inward and adventitious heat confume the natural, fo much ‘More heat any man receives ouswardly from the beat of the Sun, fo much move wants. he the fame inwardly, which is one reafon why i | 7 they C47) they are able to receive more and larger draughts of Brandy, & the like firong {pirits than in England without offence. Cold is lofs tolerable than heat, this a friend to nature, shat an enemys Many are of opinton thar the — greateft enemies of life, confifteng of beat and —-moifiuresis cold and drynefs, the extremity of cold is more eafie to be endured than extremity of beat, she violent fharpnefs of winter, than she fiery raging of Summer. To conclude,they are both bad,tco much heat brings a bot Feaver, too much cold diminifherh the flelh, withers the face, bollowes the eyes, quencheth natural beat, peeleth the hair, and procureth baldnefs. Afironomers have taken fpecial know-— ledge of the number of 1024 of the prin- cipal apparent noted Stars of all the reff; befides the 7 Planets, and the 12 Signs, and it is agreed upon that there are more Stars under the Northern-pole, than under the Southern, the number of Stars under both poles are innumerable tous ; but not to the Almighty Creator of Heaven and Earth, who calleth chem all by their names. Yai. 40. Levate in CECA oculos viftros & vi~ dete quis creavit bac ? quis educit in numebo militiam eorum & omnia fuis: nominibus vo-— cat ? In Fanuary 1668, two Suns appeared and two Moons. The year “before was pub- —-Tithed the Suns prerogative, vindicated by , | Altx- (48) | ‘Alexander Nowela young fiudient at Haf- —-yard-Colledge in the Maffachufets Colony , Which was as followeth. é “Mathematicians bave that priviledge -above other Philofophers, that their foundations are fo founded upon, and proved by demonjtration , that reafon volens nolens mut approve of them, when they are once viewed by the eye of the intelleG, iplo fatto zt grants aprobatum elt if uponthofe foundations be raifes famous Architeciures, which are infeparably joynted in, and joyned to their ground-works, yet are not their Elements of {uch vaft extenfions, a to have tbeiy dimenfions adequated with,the machine of the primum mobile, aad fo in- clude the Fabrick of created beings 5 but there are {pbears abave the [phear of their Adivity, and Orbs plaeed above the reach of their In- firuments, which will non-plus the moft acute & > tne 25 “ay 4 iy. eee ea ke 5 Bea eR Se znguifitors, at leaft on reference £9 an accurate — Jerutiny : bence diffenttons about Celeftial bodies, whether the planets have any natural light, bas been a queftion, proving that they borrow their light fromthe Sun: be being the primitive, they derivatives 5 be the Aug- mentum primum, they Orta, who though they bave light in {e, yet not ex fe. This affer- tion is not expugned by Geocencricks mbo praduce fenfe and Antiquity to fuppor ther | fappofitions 5 nor oppugned Aes (49) ae wew obfervations : for, quicquid in ambitu alicujus,circuli aétu. diffufam, comprehen- ditur,.id in centro ejufdem , continetur po- tentia collectum. Should I pus the: queftion, to the vote, queftionlefs the major part of mo- dern Ajtronomers would carry it affirmatively 5, ae a sefiiony Debug Nnaztehicalis/Argnoeny tum, I foall found my-pofition upon a more. Artificial Bafiss As for she multiplication, of: Eclipfes mbich fome fear, it’s weedlefs , for the. extent of the Cone of the earths fhaddow ( a. Centro terre ) being 250, Szmidiarheters, i; cannot reach Mars; Venus and, Mercury never. ‘oppofe the Sun. It has beem obferyed by the, help of Optick Tubes, that Venus.bas divers faces.,,.accerding to ber diverfe pofition to the, — Sun. Some affirm she fame of Mercury 5 but he’s not fo liable to obfervation ,\ be- ing feldom clear of the radiancy of the Sux. Dee fosrae Pleven Rona aieteabe San ee the fame fide 10 the Sun, as they do to us. Ve-, nus and Mars are morelucia in thetr Patheli-. on, than in their Aphelion. The Telefcope may convince ws of this truths. Evincit enim crafls, opaca &¢ diffimiliumn plane partium., corpora, plan@aseffe. Laftly God made the. Sun ana Moon, the two greater lights (though . nos the greater lucid bodies )that the Moons light, is adventitious , followes from ber invifidilivie (56) ida central Eclipfe : : hence the otber planets are ‘deftitute of native light ; nama majore adt minus valet conftquentia negative. In the year 1664.2 Star or eine appea- | red in New-Englaad in December in the Soutb-Eajt, rifing conftantly about one of the clock in the morning, carrying the tail lower and lower till’ it came into the Weff, and thén bare it dire@tly before it; the Star it’ (elf was ‘of a duskifh red, the tail of the colour. of via lade, or the tmilkie | way. A fortnight after’ it appeared again rifing higher near the Nadir of point over our heads, of the faire’ form and colour » of | which hear the forther Scholar. “Comets ( ‘fay Nye ali) procecd roi i nia- tural ‘caufess but ibey oft preceed preternatn-- ruleffeds. That oR bave ibeen Anvecedents to firange ‘confequents is an univerfal truth, ana proved by particulars, viz. Thar which’ b acs ‘over Aierufalen before ats extirpation | by Vcfpatian, that verfical to Germany, be+ furethofe blondy Wars &e. Sothar experience Attefts, and reafon. Affents, that they bave fer- vid fir Sid Prologues to Tragical Epilogues. Fur the future, preladinms to what events they l prose, may be proved by confe equence , if they hans faffered a privation of their power- ful Energie. Dr. Ward to falve Contefts 5 ifingnifacs between. Cometaite , which are Suo~ BE 2 os a Sublunary exbalations, and Comete, which are beavenly bodies, coevons with the Stars 3 tbe caufe of the inequality of whofe motion , és their Apoge and Periges. Concerning the beight ef the late Comets Orb, becaufe of the defici- ency of Inftraments, here's . pars deficiens. As for its motion December 10. twas abint the middle of Virgo. Jan. 24. 26 deg. Aries. Some obferve that Comets commonly follow a Conjunction of the fuperiour planets. Aftro- nomers attribute much to the predominancy of _ that planet which rules it, which they judge by the Colour , a dull leaden colour, claims Sa- - turn for bis Lord , bright, Jupiter; Red, Marss Golden, Sol;Yellow, Venus, variable,Mercurys pale, Luna. Alfo to the Afpedis it receives from other planets, the fignit is in , and the boufe of the Heavens in which it firft was. Hence fome may judge 2 febean of the Heavens neceffary, but unlefi Calculated for its certain vife ( which is uncertain ) it's adjudged by the judicious, fuperfluous. Some put much trujt or virtue in the tail, terming it the Ignomon, cc. Bue that ts probable of all, which bas been ob- ferved of fome., that it?s alrvayes oppofite to ‘the Sun bence when the Sun is at the Meri- dian of the Antipodes it turus, Ke. Which Regiomont obferved of that in 1475+ and Keckerman of that in 1607. Longomonta sius obferves of that in 1618. that its fir | 2 Be (52) | appearance was vertical to. Germany and spent Northward , fo its effe@. began there, and made the like progrefs: it’s rational, | that as a caufe, it fhonld operate moft power- fully on 'thofe in whofe Zenith it is, as the me- vidional Altitude, nor is it irrational, shat as a fign, it fhould prefage fomerbat to all thofe, . ‘in whofe Horizon it appears, for in reafony Relata fe mutuo inferunt,bence fignum ixfers fignatum, and the fignifier implies a fignified. Diverfe defire to be certified of the event s but ~beis wife that knowes it.Some prefume prophe- ‘tically to fpccificate from generals truths ; others defperately deny generals and all 5 of all whom it’s a truth, Incidunt in Scyllam,&c. Noble Ticho conclades,( with whom I conclude) ‘that its not rational particularly to determine ‘the fequels for fhould any, it would be only in. a cntingent Axiom, and proceed from fancie 5 therefore of no nect{fary confequence and would “produce only opinion.” “A friend’ of thine thewed me a {mall Treatife written and printed: in the Maffu- chufets-Bay by B, D. Intisaled An Aftrono mical defcripsion of the Late Cumet,or Blazing- _ * Star, as it appeared in New England ix the Ninh, Tenth, Eleventh, and the beginning of “the Teeifih moneth, 1664. printed at Cam- _ bridge by Samucl Green 1665. An. ingeni- «ous piece, but becaule I could not perfwatle : | Dy o Wo es = . : Cy. my friend tO part with it, I took out fome. fhort notes being ftraitned i in ‘time, which, are as followes, Comets are diftinguithed in 5 pepedt of _ their figure, according to the divers afpedts _ of the Sun, into Barbste, Caudate, and Cri- nite. 1. When the fiream like a beard goes before the body. 2. When the fiream fol- lowes the body. 3. When the fiream’ goes right up into the Heavens. - AComet is faid to be ‘Vertical to any | people, when the body of the: Comet Eas {eth over their heads. The light of the Comet alters and varies according to the diverfe Afpects of the Sun -enlightning it. Some took notice of it in the beginning of November. — In Anno Dom. 1668. Fuly the Fifteenth happened an Eclipfe of the moon from g of the clock at night, «ll after II, digits 95 and 35 minutes. . In November following @dared a Star between ‘the horns of the Moon in the midft, : | In Anno Dom. 1669. staiie the aiddl of Fune at 4 of the'clock in the afternoon, ap- peared a Rain-bow reverft, and at night a- bout ro of the clock we had a Lunar Rain-bow. : | | | E 3 The | C54) } The Indians fo. far as 1 could perceive have but little knowledge of the Stars and. Planets , obferving the Sunand Moon only, the dividers of time into dayes and years : they being nearer to the EquinoGial-line. by ro degrees, have their dayes and nights more equally divided, being, in Sammer. two hours fhorter, in Winter two hours. longer than they are in England The 11 of Fane the Sun rifeth at 4. and 26 minu:es, and fetreth at 7 & 34 minutes: in December, the 13 the fhosteftday, the Sun rifeth ac 7 and 35 minutes, and ferteth at 4 and a7 mi- nutes. Mid-March ie Setionheia. in Aprib they have Rain aid Thunder 5. So again at Michaelmas, about which feafon they have either before Michaelmas or after outrageous fiorms of Wind:and Rain. It’s. obfervable that there is no part of the World, which hath not fome certain times of | out-rageous fterms. We have upon our Coaft. in England a Michaclmas faw,that feldom fails ; in the Weft-Indies in Augult and. Acorember, the: forcible Nourth-wind, which though fome call Tuffins OF Hurricanes WE mult. diftin. guith, tor a sight, Hurricane-is (as Lhave faid b. fore) an iepaeivons wind that goes about- the Compa{s in the fpace of 24. hours, in tuch angsae the isd Wileaghey : (5py > of Parham Governour “of «the: Barbadves was caftaway, going with’a Fleet to recoJ ver St. Chriffophers from the French, Anno Dotts 1666: Fulys Cold weather be: gins: with: the middle of | November , the winte1’s. perpetually freezing, infomuch that their Rivers and falt-Bayes are frozen: over’ and paflable for Men, -Horfe, Oxen’and Carts; A quore cum: igelido: Zepbyrus fer xeniz Cymbo. The North-weft wind is the tharpeft wind in the -Countrie. In Exgland moft of the cold winds and weathers come fromthe Sea,and thofe feats that are:neareft: the -Sca-coafis. in. England are accounted unwholfome, but not fo°in: New England, for in-the extremity of winter the North- Eajt and -Somsh-wind:coming from the Sca produceth warm weather, only the North- Weft-wind coming over land from the white mountains.( which are alwayes ( ¢x- _ €ept.in Auguft) covered with {now ) is the caufe of extream cold weather, alwaycs ac- companied -with deep fnowes and: bitter frofts,the {now for the moft part four and fix foot deep, which melting on: the fuperficies with the heat cf the Sun, (for the mofi part thining out clearly every day ) and’ _ freezing: again: in the night: makes a craft, upon the {now fufficient to bear a man walk- mB with {now- fhoos, upon. it. And at this E 4 {ea- C56) feafon the Indians go;fosthvon hunting of Dear and Mooletwenty, thirty forty miles upinto the Countric. ‘Their Summer is hot and dry proper: for their Indian Wheat 3 which thrives beftiina hoe and dry ‘feafon , - the skiefor the moft part Summer and Win- _ tervery-clear and-ferehe 5 if they-fee a little - black cloud. inthe . Nurth-Weft, no bigger then aman may. cover with his Hat, they expat a following ftorm , the cleud in fhort time {preading round “about: the Ho- rizom accompanied with violent pgufts of wind,-rain, and ‘manytimes: lightning and terrible thunder. -Invall Countries they have obfervations how the weather will fall out; and thefe rules following are obfcrvable in New-England. [fthe.Moon look» bright and fair , look for fair weather, alfo the ap- pearing of one Rainbow after a ftorm, isa known fign of fair weather; if mifts come down from the Hills, oredefcend from ‘the Heavens, and fettle in:the valleys, they’ pro-: -mife fair hot weather mifis in the Eve- ning fhew a fair hor-day on the morrow: the Inkeswhen mifts rife from waters int he’ Evening. “Ene obfepiing of the | {maller Stags i$ a certain fign of “Fempefts approach- ing ithe oft changing-of the wind. is: alfo-a’ fore-runner of atiorm:ythe refounding of the Sea from the {hore,zand’ murmuring iW Pee eg ‘ _ the winds in the woods without apparent wind, fheweth wind to follow : thooting of the Stars ( as they call i¢ )is an ufual hen of wind from that quarter the Scar came from, ' So look whether the refounding of the Sea upon the fhore be on the Eaft or Weft fide of the dwelling, out cf that quarter will _ the wind proceed the next day. The red- nefs' of the sky inthe morning, is a token © of winds, or rain or both: if the Circles that appear about theSun be red and broken, they portend wind ; if thick and dark, wind, fnow and rain 5 the like may be {aid of the Gircles about the moon. If two rain~ bows appear, they are a fign of rain; If é the Sun or Moon look pale, look for rainy _ if a dark cloud be at Sun rifing, in which the Sun foom after is hid, it will diffolve ir, and rain will follow ; nebula afcendens indix cat timbres, nebula defcendens ferenitatem. Yt the Sun {ecm greater in the Eat, than in _ the Weft about Sun-fetting , and that there appears ablack cloud, you may expe rain that night, or the day following. Sero rubens Calum cras indicat. effe fere~ ‘ é Rn “um, a: “bres, = ; 3s & To 58). To conclude;if the white hills look cleay and confpicuous, it is a fi ign of fair weathers — if black and ‘cloudy,of rain 5 if yellowsit is a certain fign of {now fhortly. to enfuc. In Anno eee 1667. March, appeared a fizn in the Eleavens in the form.of aa Sphear, pointing dirc@ly to the Wetiand inthe, year following on the third day of April> being Friday , there was a terrible Earth-. quake, before that a very great one in 1638, and another in 58 and im 166%. Fanuary 26, 27, & 28. ( which was. the. year before. Icame thither’) there were Earthquakes 6 or 7 times in the {pace of three. dayes., Earthquakes are frequent in the Countries! feme fuppofe that the white. mountains, were firft raifed by Earthquakes, they are hollow as may be gucfed by the refounding of the rain upon the level on the top... The Tidians told us of a River whofe courte was not only ftopt by an Earthquake in 1668, (as neat as I can remember ) but the whole > River fwallowed ‘Up. ‘And have heard it reported © ‘from credible . perfons, that. . ( whilft I was chere in the Countrie ) there happened a terx:ble. Razthquake. amongft. the French , rending a hoge Rock afunder even to the Genter, wherein was a; valt hol-» | Jow of an immeafurable depth, out. of . which came many infernal Spirits. I fhail | con~ (59) conclude. this difcourfe of . Earthquakes , with that which came from the Pen of our Royal Mastyr King Charles the Fir; 4 florm at Sea wants mot its terrour, but an Earthquake, fhaking thevery foundation of all, the World bath nothing more of borrour. And now I cometo the plants of the Countric. ” The plants in New- England for the va- riety, number, beauty, and vertues, may ftand in Competition with the plants of any Countrey in Europe. ' Fobnfon hath added to Gerard’s Herbal 300. and Parkinfox men-_ fioneth many more; had they been in- New Englaud they might have found 1000 at leaft never heard of nor {cen by any Enxglifhmin before: ’Tis true, the Countrie hath no Bonerets, or Tartarlambs, no glitte-— : 110g coloured Tuleps3 but here you have, the American Mary-Gold, the Earth-nue- bcaring a princely Flower, the beautiful leaved Pirela , the honied Colibry , &c. They are generally of ( fomewhat ) a more mafculine vestue j than any of the {ame {p.cies in Eag/and, but not in fo terrible a degree, as to be mifchievous or ineflectual fo our Englif bodies. Jt i is affirmed by. fome that. no forraign Drugg or Simple can belo. proper-to Englifomen as their own, for the quantity of Opivm which Turks da fafely take spill eal es Englifhmen, and thas which will - falve (60) Salve their wounds within a day, will not re- cure an Englifhman in three. To which L anfwer that it is cuftom that brings the” Turks to’ the familiar ufe of Opium. You may have heard of a°Yaylor in Kext, who being afflicted with want Sof fleep ventured upon Opium, taking at firft a grain, and in- creafing of it till it came to an ounce, which guantitie he took as familiarly as ie Turk, without any harm, more than that — he could not fleep without it. The Englih ‘in New-England take white Hellebore, which — operates as faitly with them, as withthe Indians, who fieeping of it in water {ome-- time, give itto young lads gathered toge- ther a purpofe to drink, if it come up they force them to drink apain their vomit, © ( which they fave in a Birchen-dith ) till it , flayes with them,& he that gets the victory of it is made Captain of the other lads for thar year. There is a plant likewife, called for want of a name Clownes wound Birk by» the Englifh, though it be not the fame, ‘that _ will heal a green wound in 24 hours, if a’ wife man have the ordering of it. “Thus - much for the general, I fhall now begin to — difcover unto you the plants more particu- | —darly , and I hall firft begin with Trees, and of them, firft with fuch as are called” in ‘Scripture © “Trees of God, th tat 19 great | - Trees, | Trees, that grow of themfelves .without- planting. .Pial. 104..16, 17. Satiantur arbo- res Fehoud, cedri libani quas plantavit s (whi avicule nidificent ) abietes domicilia-ciconia. The Herons take great delight to fit basking upon the.tops of thefe Trees. And. I fhall not be over large.in any, having written of them in my Treatife. of the rarities of New- England, to which I refer you... = ... The Oake Ihave given you an account of and the kinds ; I (hall add the ordering of Red. Oake for Wainfcot. When. they have cut it down and clear’d it from the branch« es, they pitch the body of the, Treeina muddy place in a River, with the head downward for fome time, afterwards: they draw it out, and whenir is feafonéd {uffici- ently, they faw it into boards for Wainfcor, and it will branch outinto curious works. There. is: an admirable rare Creature. in thape like a Buck, with Horns, of a. gummy fubftance, which I have often found. inthe fall of che leaf upon the ground amongtt the withered leaves; a living Creature Lcan- not call i¢; having only thefign of amouth and eyes; feldom or never fhall you meet with any of them whole, but the head. and _ horns, or the hinder parts, broken off. from theft; the Indians call them Tree- Bucks, and have a {uperflitious faying ( for I belicwe 7 ge they (62) they never fee any of them living ) that if they can fee a Tree-Back walking ‘upon the branches of an Ozke when they go out-in a morning to hunt, they fhall have good luck thatday. What they are good for I know not, but certainly there is (ome more than ordinary vertue in them. It istrue that no- thing in nature isfuperfluous, and we have — the Scripture to back it, that God created nothing in vain. The like Creatures they have at the Barbadoes which thcy eall Negroes beads, found inthe Sands, about two inches “long, with forehead, eyes, nofe, mouth, chin, and part of the neck , they are alwaycs found loofe in the Sands without any root, it is as black as Fet, but whence it comes they know not. Ybave read likewife, that in the Cana- ries or Fortura'e-Iflands, there is found a cer- tain Creature, whites Boys bring home from the mountains as oft as they would, and named them Tudefquels, or little Germans : for they wire dryd dead Carcales, almoft three footed, which any bry did eafly carry in one of the palms of bis band, and they were of an bat- ‘manefbape, but tbe vebole dead Garcafe was ‘clearly like unto Parchmest, and their. bones were flexible, as it were griftles > againit the Suny, allo, rheir bowels and inteftines were Seen. Surely ( faith my Authonr ) the deftroy- ed race of the Pigmies mas there, There 5 alio Cozy)” alfo many times found upon the léaves of the Oske a Creature like a Frog, being as thin asa leaf, and tranfparent, as yellow as Gold, with letle fiery red eyes, the ‘Englifb | call them T'ree-frogs or Tree-toads ( but of Tree-toads I fhall have cccafion to {peak in another place ) they are faid to be vene- mous , but may be fafely ufed , being ad- mitable to ftop womens over-Howing cour- | “ie hung about their necks in a Vaffetie ~ Captain Smith writes that in New-Eng- land ‘there growes 2 ‘certain ber?y called Kermes, worth 10 fhillings apound, and bab béen formerly fold for 30 or 40 fhillings a pound, which may yearly be gathered in good quantity. Uhavefought for this berry, ‘he (peaks of, as a man fhould feek for a needle in a bottle of Hay, but could never lighe upin its Glas that kind of Solomen’feal called by the Exglify Treacle-berry be it. Gerard our famous Herbalift writes thar they grow upon a little Tree called Scarlet-Oake, the leaves have one [harp prickle at the end of it y it beareth fmall Acorns: But the grain or berry gromes out of the reoody branches, like an excrefcence af the fubjtance of ibe Ouke-_ Apple, and of the Dignelt of Peafé, at fir? white, when ripe of an Alh-colour, whi:b in- genders little Maggots, which whin it begins to (64) #o ave weed: are. pub. into a bag. and boulred up and down tll dead, and then made up into Lanpsy the Maggot as moft do deem # Cutche- nele; So that Chermes is Cutck eneles the bers ries dye fearless. Mr. George Sands ix bis Travels faith ( masch to the fame purpofe ) that fearlet dye growes like a blifter on, the leaf’ of the Holy Oske,. a little fhrab, yet producing Acorns, being gathered they rub out of it a certain red dujt , that converteth after a while into werms, which they kill with Wine, when they begin to quicken. See farther concerning Treacle-berries and Cutchinele in the 3 rarities af New-England. | The Pine-Tree challengeth. the next place, and that fort which is called Board- pine is the principal, icis a ftately large Tree, very tall, and fometimes two or three fadom ) about : of. the body the Englifh make large -Canows of 20foot long,and two foot and a half over, hollowing of them -with an, Adds, and thaping of the outlide ike a Boat., Some conceive that the wood called Gopher in Scripture; of which. Noab made the Ark, was no other than Pine, Gen. 6. 145 T he bark thereof is good for Ulcers in ten- der perfons t chat refufe tharp medicines, The inner bark of young board-pine cut {mall and fampt and-boiled ina Gallon of water is a very foveraign medicine for burn of (85), oi {eald , wathing the fore with fome af the decoétion, and then laying on the bark ftampt very fofe: or for frozen limbs, to take out the fire and to heal them, take the bark of Board-pine-Tree, cut it {mall ard fiamp it and boil it ina gallon of water to Gelly, wafh the fore with the liquor, {ftamp the bark apain ullit be very foft and bind itons The Turpentine is excellent to heal wounds and cuts, and hath all the proper- ties of Venice Turpentine; the Rofen is as good as Frankincenfe, and the powder of the dryed leaves generateth ficth 5 the di- fiilled water of the green Cones. takett away wrinkles in the face being laid on with Cloths. . The Firr-tree is a large Tree too, but fel- dom fo big as the Pine, the bark is “fmooth, with knobs or blifters, in which lyeth clear liquid Turpentine very good to be put inté- -falves and oyntments, the leaves or Cones boiled in Beer are good for the Scurvie, the young budsare excellent to put into Epi- themes for Warts and Corns, the Rofen i¢ altogether as good as Frank ncenfe 5 out of this. Tree the Poleakers draw Pitch and Tarr; the manner I fhall give you; tor that it may ( with many other things contained in this Treatife ) be beneficial to my Coun; trymen, either there already feated, or that. ia F may | (66) may happen to go thither hereafter. Out of the fattelt wood changed into Torch- wood, which is a difeafe in that Tree they draw Tart, firft a place muft be paved with frone or the like, a little higher in the mid- dle, about which there muft be made gut- ters, into which the liguor falls , then out from. them other gutters are to be drawn, by which it may be received , ‘then isit put into barrels, The place thus prepared, the cloven wood muft be fet upright, then mutt it be covered with a great number of firr and pitch bowes; and on every part all about with much lome and fods of earth, _ and great heed mutt be taken, left there be any cleftor chink remaining , only a hole teft in the top of the furnace, through which the fire may be put in, and the flame wd imoak to pais out $ when the fire burn- eth, the Pitch or ‘Tarr runneth forth firh thin, and then thicker ; of which when it is boiled is made Pitch: the powder of dried Pitch is ufed to generate flefh in wounds and fores. The knots of this Tree and fat-pire are ufed > the Englifh inftead of Candles, and i will burn a long am, but it makes the people pales = The Spruce-tree Phave piven: you an ac- “gout of In my? New-Exgland rarities. Ta “the ie the eall of Saerland iecaise the- ae 0 (67) of Lough-argick, there bail been forinerly of theie Trees 28 handful about at the Root, and their bodies mounted to 90. foot of height, bearing at the length 20 inches diameters At Pafcataway there is now a Seruce-tree brought down to the water- fide by our Mafs-men of an incredible big- nefs, and fo long that no Skipper durft ever y:t adventure to fhip it, but there it lyes ~ and Rots. The Hemlock: tree isa 2 kind of fpruce ox Pine; the bark boiled and ftampt till ie be very foft isexcellent for to heal wounds, and fo isthe Turpentine thereof; and the Turpentine that iffueth fromthe Cones of the Larch-tree, ( which comes neareft of any to the right Turpentine) is fingularly good to heal wounds;and to draw out the malice (or Thorn, as Helmont phrafes is) of any Ach, rubbing the place therewith, and ftrowing upon it the powder of Sage- leaves. The white Cedar isa ftately Free, arid. iS taken by fome to be Tamarisk, this Tree the Englifo {aw into boards to floor their Rooms, for which purpofe it is excellent, long lafting, and wears very fmooth and white 5 likewife they make fhingles to cover” their hou(es with inflead of tyle, it will ne- ver warp. This Tree, the Qak and the rE 2 | Larca- (68) Larch-tree are beft for building. Groundfels madeof Larch-tree will never rot, and the longer it lyes the harder it growes , that you may almoft drive a nailinto a bar of Tronas eafily as into that. Oh, that my Countrey- men might obtain that blefling with their __ buildings, which Efzy prophefied to the Fewes in the 65 Chapter and 22 verfe. Non edificabun: & alius inhabitabit, non plantabunt & alius comedet : fed ut funt dies Arboris, dies erune popult mei, & opus manuum fuarum deterent elecii mei. 3 The Saffafras-tree is no great Tree, I have met with fome as big as my middle, the rind is tawny and upon that a thin co Jour of Afhes, the inner part is white, of an excellent f{mell like Fennel, of a fweet — taft with fome bitternefs ; the leaves are ‘ike Fig-leaves of adark green. A decoGi- on of the Roots and bark thereof fweetned with Sugar, and drunk in the morning falling will open the body and procure a fiool or two, it is: good for the Scurvie taken fome time together, and laying upon the legs the green leaves of white Hellebore. They give it to Cows that have newly. cal- ved to make them caft their Cleanings. This Tree growes not beyond Black-point Esftward : it is obferved, that there is no provinci b .t-produces Trees and plants not growing in other Regiens. ' Now (69), Non omnis fert omnia tellit The Walnut which is aivers: fome bits ring {quare nuts, others like ours, but {mal- ler : there is likewife black Walnut of pre- cious ufe for Tables, Cabinets and the like. TheWalnut-tree is the tougheft wood in the Countrie, and therefore made ule of for Hoops and Bowes, there being no Yew there growing; In England they made their Bowes ufually of Witch, Halel, Ath, Yew, the befi of outlandith Elm, but the Indians make theirs of Walnut. | The Line-tree with long nuts, the other kind Icould never find : the wood of this Tree, Laurel, Rhamnus, Holly and Ivy are acc sunted for woods that ‘caule fire by at- trition; Laurel and Ivy are not growing in -New-England: the Indians will rub two fear’d.fiicks of any fort of wood, and kindle a fire with them prefently. The Maple-tree, on the boughs of this ‘Tree thave often found a jellied fubftance Ake Fewves-Ears, which Ifound upon tryal to be as good for fore throats Gc. The Birch-tree is of two kinds, ordina-_ ay Birch, and black Birch, many of thefe Trees are fiript of their bark by the Indi- ans, who make of it their Canows, Kettles, P23 => ‘and (7e)> and Birchen- dithes 3 ¢ there is an excrefeence growing out of the body of the Tree called fpunck, or dead mens Caps, it growes at the Roots of Ath, or Beech, of Elm ; but the bef is that which, growes upon the b} lack B rch, this boil led and beaten, and then dri- ed in an Oven maketh excel Heat Touch- wood, and Balls to play with, > _ Alder, of which wood there i 1S abundance jn the wet fwamps: the bark thereof with — the yolke of an Epp is good fox a firains an Indizn bruiling of his knee, chew’d the bak of Alder fafting and laid it t0, which quickly helped /him. The wives of | our Welt-Countrey Englith make a drink with the feeds of A‘der , > giving it to their . hiléren troubled with th e Alloes. Y have alked with many of them, but could never eee what difeafe it thou ld be they fo. | mame, thefle Trees are cal led by fome Sul- ling aCe ; 7 he Inaians tell. of a Tree: chit prowes far-upin the land, that is as big as an Oake, that will cure the falling-lickncfs intaliiblys what part thereof they ufe, Bark, Woed, , jeaves or fruit, Teould never learn 5 they promited obten fo. brirg of it to me, but didnot. J have feen a a ttately Tree. grow- mg here and there in valleys, nor’ like to any fees im Lurope , having a dmeoth bark of | (71) a dark brown colour, the leaves like great Maple, in England called Sycamor, but lar-, ger, it may be this is the Tree they brag of. -'Thus much concerning Trees, now I fhall prefent to your view the Shrubs; and firft of _ the Sumach.Shrub,which as I have told you in New- Englands rarities, differeth trom all the kinds fet down in our Englif Herbals, the root dyeth wool or cloth reddifh, the — decoction of the leaves in wine drunk, is good for all Fluxes of the belly in man or ‘woman, the whites, dc. For galled places ftamp the leaves with honey, and apply if, nothing fo foon healeth a wound in the head as Sumach fiampt and applyed once in | three dayes, the powder ftrewed in flayeth — the bleeding of wounds: The feed. of Su- mach pounded and mixt with honey, hea- leth the Hemorrhoids, the gum put into a hollow tooth affwageth the pain, the bark” or berries in the fall of the leaf, 1s as good asgallstomakeInkof. — Elder in Mew-England is (ntubbie,& dies once in two years: there is a fort of dwarf- Elder that growes by the Sea-fide that hath a red pith, the berries of both are fmaller than Exglifo-Elder,not round but corner’d, neither of them {mell fo firong as ours. — - Juniper growes for the moft part by the Sea-fide, it bears abundance of skie-colou- F 4 red | (72) | red berries fed upon by Partridges, and hatha woodie root, which induceth me to believe that the olanit mention’d in Job BO 4 » Qui decerpebant herbas 6 falfilagine cum ‘ir prbus 2 etzam radices Funiperorum citbo erant illis, was our Indian plant Caffava. They write that Funiper-coals’ preferve. fire longeft of any, Keeping fire a whole year without fupp! y, yet the Indian never ned of it. ~ Sweet fern, fee the rarities idx New Exg- land, the tops and nucamenis of {weet fern boiled in water or mil \k and drunk helpeth all manner of Fluxes, being boiled in water i¢ makes an ¢x-ellent liquor for Inck.. Current-buthes are ot two kinds red and black, the black cirients which are larger ‘than the red {mel like cats pils, yet are rea- fonable pleafant i if ating. 99) _ “Fhe Goolcberry-buth, the berry of lich 4s called Grofers o2 thorn Grapes, grow all oyer the Countrie, the berry is but fmnall, of a red or purple colon iy when ripe. There is a fmall (hrub which is very com- mon, growing fomeritmes tothe height of a2 ded! bearing a berry like in es to the didtest che: white thorn, of a pale yellow | colour at frit, then ved, when it is xipe of ; ee purple , ot a delicate Aromatical » forewhat Nipricl ks to conglude, ale wae ' (73) wayes obferve this rule in taking or refu- fing unknown fruit: if you tind them eaten of the fowl] or beat, you may boldly venture to ¢at of them, otherwiledo not touch them, Mage, otherwife called. Turkie-wheat, or sather Indian-wheat, becaufe it came fir from thence 5 the leaves boiled and drunk helpech | painvin the back; of che ftalkes when they are green you. may make Beve- rage, as. they do with Calamels, or Sugar- canes.» The saw Corn chewed ripens felons or Cats hairs, or you may lay Sump to it The Indians before it be thorow ripe eat of it parched. Certainly the parched Corn thas Abigail brought to. David was of this kind of grain, 1$.m. 25.18% The Fewes manner was (a it is celivered to ws Pye learned Divine .) firlt to parte, thesr Corn, then ghey fryed it, and baftly they boiled it to a palte, and then fewnerca it with mater, Checfe- Cyrdsy Honey and Eggs, ihisthey carried drye with them to the Camp, and fo met the Cakes in Wine: or milky {uch mas sthe pulfe ioo of Africas __ French-beans, ae ho American: beans, the Herbalifts call chem kiduy beans trom. their thape and cfic@s, for they fhengthea phe kidneyss they are vari ented much, fome i. bi igvera grcat deal than others tome ce ‘white, (74) | white, black, red, yellow, blew, {potted 5 befides your Bonivis and Calavances and the — kidney-bean, that is proper to Ronoake, but thefé are brought into the Countrie, the other are natural te the climate. So the | Mexico pompion which is flat-and deeply — camphered, the fi fh laid to, aflwageth pain of the eyes. The water-mellon 1s pro- per to the Countric, the fiefh of itis of a flefh colour, arare cooler of Feavers, and excellent againft the ftone. Pomum fpini- {um and palma-Cbrifti too growes not here, unlefs planted, brought from Perw; the la- ter isthought to be the plant, that fhaded — Jonah the Prophet, Jonas 4. 6. Paraverat enim Jehova Deus rictnum qui afcenderet fupra Jonam, ut effet ninbra fuper caput ejUs erep- tura eum a malo ipfins s letabaturque Jonas de -ricino illo letitia magna. Ricinum, that is pal- ma Chrifti,calied allo cucurbita,and theretore ~ tranflated a Gourd. | Tobacco, or Tabacca {o called from Ta- baco or Tabags, one of the Caribbe-[flinds about 50 Englifh miles from Trinidad. The right name,according to Monardus,is piciel- te, as others will petum, nicotianfrom Nicor, 2 Portingal, ‘to whom it was prefented for — aragitie in Anno Dom. 1559. by one that brought it from Florida. Great contelt there is about the time when it was firft oe ee brought fv (75) | brought into England, {ome will have Sir Fobu «Hawkins the firft, others Sir Francis Drake’s Mariners; others again fay that one Mr. Lane imployed by Sir Walter Raw- leigh brought it firft into Englands all con- clude that Sir Walter Rawleigh brought it firftin ule. Jt @ obferved that no one kind of forraign Commodity yieldeth greater ad-— vantage to the publick than Tobacco, it is ge- nerally made the complement of our entertatn- ment, and bath made more flaves than Maho- met. There is three forts of it Matchan- table, the firft horfe Tc bacco, hiving a broad long leaf piked at the end ; the fe- cond round pointed Tobacco 3 third {weet {cented Tobacco. Thefe are made up into Cane, leaf or balls there is little of it panted in New-England, neither have they Jearned the right way of curing of it. Ie js fowen in April vpon a bed of rich mould fitted, they make a bed about three yards long, Or more according to the ground they intend to plant, and a yard and a half over; this they tread down hard, then they fow theiz feed wpon it as thick as may be, and fift ine earth uponit, then tread it down — again as hard as poffible they can, when it hath gotten four or 1 leaves, they remove it eo the planting ground 5 when it begins to bud towards flowring, they crop off the top, (76) top, for the Flower drawes away the flrength of the leaf. For the reftI refer you to the Planter, being not willing to difcover their myfteries. The Indians in New England — ufe af{mall round leafed Ti bacco, called by them, or the Fifhermen Poke. It is odious tothe Eng ith. The vertues of Tobacco are thefe, it helps digeftion, the Gout, the Tooth-ach, prevents infection by feents,it heats the cold, ond couls them that feat, feedeth the hungry, Spent {pirits reftoreth, purgeth the ftomach, kil- Leth nits and lice, the. juice of the green leaf bealeth green rounds although poyfoned, the Syrup for many difeafes, the fmoak for the Phthifick, cough of the lungs, diftillarions of | Rheume, and all difeafes of a cold and moift — caufe, good for all bodies celd and moift raken upon an emptie ftomach, taken upon a full fto- mach it precipitates digejtion, imm deratel taken it dryeth the body, enflameth the bloud, burtcth the brain, weakens the eyes and the Sines. i | } 7 White Hellebore is ufed forthe Scurvie by the Exglifh.. A friend of mine gave them firita purge, then conferve of Bear- berries, then fumed their leggzs with vine- gar, {prinkled upon a piece of mill-tione made hot, and applid tothe {ores white - Hillebore leaves, drink made of Orpine and forrel were given likewile withit, and Sia- — {curvie- (77) fcurvie-grafs. To kill lice, boil the roots of Hellebore in milk,and anoint the hair of the head therewith or other places. — Mandrake, isa very rare plant, the Indi- ans know it not, it isfound in the woods about Pafeataway, they do in plain terms flink, therefore Reubeas-Flowers that he brought home were not Mandrakes, Gen. 30. 14,15, 16. They arerendered inthe Latine Amabiles flores, thefame word fay our Di- vines is ufed in Canticles, 7.4. Amabiles iftos flores edentes odorem, & fecundum oftia noftra omnes pretiofos fructus, recen-. tes fimulac veteres , dileéte mi, repono tibi. | So that the right tranflation issReuben brought — home amiable and fwcer {melling Flowers; this in the Canticles ( {ay they ) expounding the other. Calamus Aromaticus, or the {wet fete ling reed, it Flowers in july fee New- Englands rarities. Sar{aparil[s or roughbind- weed (as fome defcribe it) the leaves “and whole bind fet with thorns, of this there is ftore growing upon the banks of Ponds: Sze the rarities of New-Exgland. The leaves of the Sarfa= parilla there defcribed pounded with Hogs greafe and boiled to an unguent, is excel~ lent in the curing of wounds. — Live for ever, it isa mind of sah lh j fi sus (78). Mlourifheth all fumimer long till cold weg- ther comes in, it growes now plentifully in our Exglifp Gardens , it is good for cough of the lungs, and to cleanfe the breaft taken | as you do Tobacco; and for pain in the head the decoction, or the juice firained and drunk in Bear, Wine, or Aqua vita, killeth worms. TheFithermen when they ti Tobacco take this herb being cut and ryed, & | | Lyfimachys or Loofe-firife:there are feveral kinds, but the moft noted is the yellow Ly- fimachus of Virginia, the root is longifh and white, as thick asones thumb, the fialkes of an.overworn colour, and a little hairie, the middie vein of the leaf whitith, the Flower yellow and like Pritmrofes, and therefore called Tree-primrofe, growes up- on feedie veffels , gre. The fir year it growes not up toa fialke, but fends up many large leaves handfomely lying one upon another;Rofe fathion; Flowers in Fane, the (ced is ripe in Augaft, this as T have faid is taken by the Engl for Scabious, - St. Fobn’?s wort it preferveth Cheefe madevio in atet Sdaeri = fa, ee Spurge or Wolfes milch there are feveral forts. eam as tS eS Avens,or herb-bennet; you have.an account of it in New-Englands raritics ; but one oa ae a | thing (72) 3 thing more I fhall add, that you may plains — ly perceive a more mafculine quality in the _ plants growing in New-England. A neigh- bour of mine in Hay-time , having over- heat himfelf, and melted his greafe, with firiving to. outmowe another man, fell dan- gerou(ly fick, not being able to turn himlelf in his bed, his ftomach gon, and his heart fainting ever and anon 3 to whom I admi- niftred the decoction of Avens-Roots and leaves in water and wine, {weetning it{with Syrup of Clove-Gilliflowers, in one weeks time it recovered him, fo that he was able to perform his daily work, being a poox planter or husbandman as we call them. — Red-Lilly growes all over the Countrey amongft the bufhes, Mr. Fobnfon upon Gerard ‘takes the Tulip to be the Lilly of the field mentioned by our Saviour, Marth. — 6. 28, 29. Ae de veftitu quid foliciti eftu ? difcite quamodo lilia agrorum augefcant : non fatigantur, neque nent, fed dico vob, ne Solomonem quidem cum univerfa ghria fie amitium fuilfe ut unum ex itis. Solomon ix all his Royalty was not like one of them. His reafons are, firft from the foape, like a lilly’ The fecond, becaufe thofe places where car Saviour was converfant they grow wild in the fields. Third, the infinite variety of the ca- Lom ¢. (80) : lourss Lhe fourth and laftreafon, the wons — drous beautie and mixture of thefe Flowers. Water-lillys 3 the black roots: dryed and pulverized,- are wondrous ;cfletual in the — {topping of all manner of fluxes of the belly, drunk with wine or water. 5 Herba-paris, one berry, herb true love, or four-leaved night-fhade, the leaves are _ good tobe laid upon hot tumours; _ Ombilicus veneris, or New-England daifie, — itis good for hot humours, Erifipelas, St. Anthbonie’s fire, all inflamrnations. Glafs-wort, a little quantity of this plant you may takeforthe Dropfie, but be very careful that you take not too much, for it worketh impetuoufly. 7 ES | Water-plantane,; called in New-England water Suck-leaves, and Scurvie-leaves, you. mutt lay chem whole to the leggs to draw out water between the skin and the fleth. _Kofa-fols, Sun-dew , moor-grafs , this plane have feen more of, than ever I faw an my whole lifebefore in England, aman may gather upon fome marith-grounds an incrcdible quantity ina (hort time; towards the middle of Fuae it isin its feafon, for then its (pear is fhot out to. its length, of | which they take hold and. pull the whole. plant up by-the roots from the mofs with cafe. | | An : (81) __ Amber-greefe I take to bea Muthrooti; feethe rarities of New-England. Monar- dus writeth that Amber-greefe rifeth ontof a certain. clammy and bituminows earth under the Seas, and by the Sea-fide,the billows cafting : up part of it a bind, and fifo devour the ret Some fay it is the feed of a Whale, otbers, that it {pringeth from fountains as pitch doth, ‘which fifbes {wallow down; the air congealeth its And fometimes it is found in the cre- vifes and corners of Rocks; Fufs-balls, Muliipuffes called by the Fih- ermen Wolves-farts, are to be found plenti- © fully, and thofe bigger by much than any I have feen in England. ee Coraline there is infinite ftore of it caft upon the fhore , and another plant that is more fpinie,of a Red colour, and as hard as Corral. Coraline laidto the gout eafeth the — pain. - = Ce) - Sea-Qake or wreach; or Sea-weed3 the black pouches of Oar-weed dryed and pul- verized, and drunk with White-wine ; is an excellent remedy forthe fiones _ I will finifh this par¢ of my relation con- cerning plants, with an admirable plant for the curing and taking away of Corns, which many times fore troubleth the Tra- veller ¢ it is not above a handful high; the jitele branches are woodie, the leaves like Bo the (82). the leaves of Box, but broader and mauch thicker, hard, and of a deep grafs-green colours this bruifed or champt in the mouth and laid upon the Corn will take it away cleanin one night. And obferve all Indian Trees and plants, their Roots are but of {mall depth, and fo they mutt be fet. Of Beafts of the earth there be farce 4720 feveral kinds, and not much more of the Fowls of the Air, is the opinion of fome Naturalifis; there are. not many kinds of Beafts in New. England, they may be divided into Beafts of the Chafe of the ftinking foot, as Roes, Foxes, Faccals, Wolves, Wild-cats, Raccons, Poreupines,Squncks, Muf- quafbes, Squirrels, Sables , and Mastrifes ; and Beafts of the ‘Chafe of the {weer toot, Buck , Red Dear, Rain-Dear, Elke, Maroufe, Maccarib, Bear, Beaver, Otter, Marten, Hare. The Roe akind of .Deer, and the fleeteft Beaft upon earth is here to be found, and is good verifon, but not over fat.: The Fox, the male is called a dee: Aes. ‘the female a bitch-fox, they goa clicketing the beginning of the fpring, and bring forth their, Cubs in May and june. There are ¢wo or three kinds of tnem 3 one a great yellow Fox, another grey, who will climb up into Trees; the black Fox is of much efteems Foxes and Wolves are ee y hunted in (83 ) in England trom Holy-Rood day, till the Annunciation. In New- England they make beft {port ‘in the depth of winter : they lay a fledg-load of Cods-heads on the othex fide of apaled fence when the toon fhines, and about nine or ten of the clock the Foxes come toit, forhetimes two or three, or hiclf a dozen,and more ; thefe they fhoot, and by that time they have cafed them, there will be as many ; So they continue fhooting and killing of Foxes as long as the moon fhineth : Thave known half a {core kill?’ in one night. Their pifles are bonie like a _ doggs, their fat liquified and put into the ears eafeth the pain, their tails or buthes are very fair ones and of good ufe, but theif" _ Skins are fo thin ( yet thick fee with deer - furr ) that they will hardly hold the drcf- ee, ee ee ad Faccals there be abundance, which isa Creature much like a Fox, but fmaller, chey are very frequent in Paleftina, or the Holy- The Wolf feeketh his mate and gotsa clicketing at the fame feafon with Foxes,and bring, forth thcir whelps as they do, bue their kennels are under thick. buthes by great Trees in remote places by the{wamps, he is to be hunted asthe Fox from Holy- — rood day till the Annunciation. But there | G 32 | they. ( 84) they have a quicker way to defiroy them. See New Englands rarities. They commonly — go in routs, a rout of Wolves is 12 or more, {ometimes by. couples. In 1664. we found a Wolf afleep ina{mall dry {wamp under an Oake, a great maftiff which we had with us feized upon him, and held him till we had puta rope about his neck, by which © we brought himhome, and tying of him — toa ftake we bated him with {maller Doges, and had excellent fport; but his hinder lege being broken, they knockt out his brains. Sometime before this we had an excellent courfe after a fingle Wolf upon the hard fands by the Sea-fide at low water fora mile or two, at laft we loft our doggs, it be- ing ( as the -Lancafhire people phrafe it ) ~ twi-l ght, that is almoft dark, and went be- yond them, for a maftiff-bitch had feized. upon the Wilf being gotten into the Sea, and there held him till one went in and led him ont, the bitch keeping her hold till they had tyed his leges,and{o carried him. home like a Calf upon a ftaff between two men 3 being brought into the houfe they unbound him- and fet him upon his leges, he not offering in the leaft to bite, or fo much as to fhew his teeth, but clapping his fiern betwixt his legos, and leering towards tbe door W ould Willing) Lag had his liber- okt . (87>) ty, but they ferved him as they did the other, knockt his brains out, for our doges— were not then in a conditionto bate him 3 their eyes fhine by night as a Lanthorn: the - Fangs of a Wolf hung about childrens necks _ keep them from frighting, and are very good torub their gums with when they are breeding of Teeth, the gall of a Wolf is Soveraign for {welling of the finews ; the fants or dung of a Wolf drunk with white- wine helpeth theColick, The Wild-cat,Lufern or luceret, or Ounce as fome call it, isnot inferiour to Lamb, their greafe is very foveraign for lamenefs vpon taking cold. | : The Racoon or Rattoon is of two forts, gray Rattoons, and black Rattoons , theis ereafe is foveraign for wounds with bruifes, aches, ftreins, bruifes; and to anoint after broken bones and diflucations. The Squnck is almoft as big as a Racoon, perfect black and white or pye-bald, with — a bufh-tail like a Fox, an offenfive Carion 5 the Urine of this Creatuse is of fo ftrong. a fcent, that if it light upon any thing, there is no abiding of it, it will makea man {mell, though he were of Alexznders complexion, and fo fharp that if he do but whisk his bufh which he piffeth upon in the face of adoge hunting of him, and that G3. oy (86) any of itlight in his eyes it will make him upel mad with the {mart thereof, __ “The Mufquafbes is a {mall Beaft chat ives in fhallow ponds, where they build them houfes of earth and flicks in fhape like mole- hills,and feed upon Calamus Aromaticus sin ) May they fcent very firong of Muske > their furr is of no great efteem ; their ftones wrapt up in Cotten-wool will continue a long time, and are good to lay amonght cloths to give them a grateful {mell. The Sguirril, of which there are three forts, the moufe-{quirril, the gray (quirril, and the flying {quirril, called by the Indian — Affspanick, The moufe-{quirril is hardly {5 big as a Rat, itreak’d on both fides with black and red i reaks, they are mifchievous vermine deltroying abundance of Corn both m the field and in the houfe, where ‘they will i gnaw holes into Chetts, anid tear clothes both linnen and wollen, and are no- | table nut-gatherers in. Auguft swhen hafel and filbert nuts are ripe you may fee upon every Nut-tree as many. moute: {quirrils as leaves 5 So that the: wis are gone ina trice, which they convey to their Drays or Nefts. The gray (quirril is pretty large, almolt as big asa Conie, and are very good meat : fome parts of the Countrie there are ae of them, The fying sciiaes fo called, be- caufe 7 | oe caufe (his skin being loofe and large ) be } {preads it on both fides like wings when he paffeth from one Tree to ancther at great -diGance. I cannot call it flying. nor leaping, for it is both. eee | The Mauttrife is a Creature whofe head and. fore- parts 1s fhaped. {omewhat likea ‘ Lyons, noc alrogether fo big as a houfe-cat, they are innumerable up in the Countrey, and are eftecmed good furr. 7 The Sable is much of the fize of a Mat- _-trife perfe& black, but what ftore there is of them {I cannot tell, I never faw but two of them in Eight years {pace. | | ‘The Martin is as ours are in England, but blacker, they breed in holes which they make in the earth like Conies,and are in- -numerable, their skins or furr are in much — requeft. | | nee 32 The Back, Stag, and Rain-Dear are Creatures that will live in the coldeft cli- mates, here they are innumerable, bringing forth three Fawus or Calves ata time, which they hide a mile afunder to prevent their — deftruGion by the Wolves, wild-Cats, Bears, and Mequans ; when they are in fealon they will be very fat; there are but few flain by _ the Englifh.. The Indians who fhoot them, and take of them with toyls, bring them in = G4 with ~ (88). with their fuet, and the bones that oy vpon Stags-Hearts. What would you fay, if I fhould tell you | that in Green-land there are Does that have as large horns as Bucks, theix brow Antlers growing’ downwards beyond their Mufes, and broad at.the end wherewith they {crape away the fnow ta the grafs, it being im. poflible for them otherwayes to live in thole cold Countries ; ; the head of one of thefe Does was{ormetime finte nailed upon a fign- pot in Chartcr-houfe-lane, and thefe follow- mg verfes written upon a board underneath if. | Like a Bucks- headE ian i in open view, = , And yet am none, nay, wonder not, ris tHe j The living Beajt that thefe fair bere did ome — Well knoven to many, was a-Green-land Doe, qe proverb old is bere fulfild in me, Lbat ron) Re A not te ie you fer. ‘The Moofe or Elke is a Creature, or ra ther if you will a Monfter of {uperfluicys a full grown Moofe is many times bigger than — an haglih Oxe, _ it horns as I have faid elewhere , very big ( and branche out into se lms) the tips whercof are fometimes ound to be two fathom afunder, (a fathora 1S ($8). is fix feet from the tip of one finger to the - tip of the other,that is four cubits,) and in height from the toe of the fore-foor, tothe pitch of the fhoulder twelve foot , both which hath been taken by fome of my fcep- sigue Readers to be monftrous lyes. If you confider the breadth that the bea& car- ricth, and the magnitude of the horns, you will be eafily induced to contribute your be- fief. And for their height fince I came into England U have read Dr. Scroderns his Chy- mical difpenfatory tranflated into. Englifh ‘by Dr. Rowland, where he writes that when be lived in. Finland under Guflavus Horns he fam an Elke that was killed and prefented to _ Gottavus bis Mother, feventeen fpans bigh. Lo you now Sirs of the Gibing crue, if you have any skillin menfuration, tell me what difference thereis between Scventeen fpans and twelve foot. There are certain _ tranfcendentia in every Creafure,which are the indelible Characters of God, and which difcover God , There’s a prudential! for you, as Fob Rhodes the Fifherman ufed to fay tohis mate, Kitt Lux. But to go on wich the Moofesthey are accounted a kind of Deer, and have three Calves at a time, which they hide a mile afunder too,as other Deer do, their skins make excellent Coats for Martial men, their finews which are as 3 pies = 7 big roe (90) | | big as amans finger are of perdurable toughnefs and much ufed by the Indians, the bone that growes upon thcic heart is an excellent Cordial, their bloud is as thick as an Affes or Bulls who have the thickeft bloud of all others, aman the thinneft.To.. what age they live I know not, certainly along time in their proper climate. Some particular living Creatures cannot live ix eve- vy particular place or region , efpectally with the fame joy and felicity as tt did where it was firft br.d, for tbe certain agreement of nature that is between the place andthe thing bred in that place: As appeareth by Elephants, which being tranflated and brought out of the Second or Third Climate, though they may live, yet will they never ingender or bring forth younge So for plants, Birds, de. Ot both . thefe Creatures, fome few there have been brought into England, but did not long ‘continue, Sir R. Baker in his Chronicle tells us of an Elephant in Henry the Thirds — Raign, which he faith was the firft that was ever fcen there, which as it feems is an error, wnlefS he refrain it to the Normzn’s time. For Mr. Speed writeth that Claudins Drufius Emperour of Rome brought in the firft in his Army 3 the bones of which digg?d up fince are taken for Gyants bones. As for the Moofe the firit that was {een in England, | i was. (st) was in ‘King Charles the Firf Raien ; ; Ao much for thefe magnals amoneft the Crea- tures of God to be wondered at, the next beaft to be mentioned is. The Mauroufe, which is fomewhat like | a Moofe, but his horns are but fmall,and himfelf about the fize of a Stag, thefe are the Deer that the flat-footed Wolves hunt atier. The Maccarib is a Ciciire not found that ever I heagd yet, bute upon Cape-Sable near to the French plantations. The Bear when he goes to mate isa ter- rible Creature, they bring forth their Cubs in Marcb, hunted with doggs they take a Tree where they fhoot them, when he is fat he is excellent Venifon , thick is in Acorn time, and in winter, Bie then there js none dates to attempt to kill him bur the _ Exdianw He makes his Denn amongft thick Buthes, thrufting in here and there flore of Mofs, which being covered with {now and melting in the day time with heat of the | Sun, in the night is frozen into a thick coat of Ice 5 the mouth of his Den is very | narrow, here they lye fingle, never two in | a Den all winter. The Indian as foon as he finds them, creeps in upon all four, feiz s with his left hand upon the neck ar the fleeping Bear, drags im to th Mouth of the (92) | the Den,where with a club or {mall hatchet. in his right hand he knocks our his brains — before he can open his eyes to fee his ene- — my. But fometimes they are too quick for — the Indians, as one amongft them call.d black Rebin lighting upon a male- Bear had a piece of his buttock torn off before he could fetch his blow : their greafe is very foveraign. One Mr. Parchafe cured hime felf of the Sciatica with Bears-greele, keep- ing fome of it continually in his groine.It is good too for {well’d Cheeks upon cold, for Rupture of the hands in winter, for limbs taken fuddenly with Sciatica, Gout, or o- ther difeafes that cannot fiand upright nor go, bed-rid 5 it muft be well chaft in, and the fame cloth laid on ftill 5 it prevents the fhedding of the hair occafioned by the cold- nefs of winters weather 5 andthe yard of , a Beary which as a Doggs or Foxes is bonie, — is good for to expell Gravel our of, the kid- neys and bladder, as I was there told by one Mr. Abrabam Philater a Ferfey-man. The Beaver or Pound-dog is an Amphi- — bious Creature, lives upon the land as well asin the water. I fuppofe they feed upon hth, byt am furethat the Bark of Trees is — alfo their food ; there is an old proverbial faying, fic me jubes quotidie, ut fiber (ilicems you love meas the Beaver doth peers | | eae who | (930 who eateth the Bark and killeth the Tree; | They will be tame, witnefs the Beaver that not long fince. was képt at Boffon in the Maffachufets-Bay, and would run up and down the fireets,returning home without a call. Their skins are highly valued,and their fiones are good for the palfie, trembling, and numbnefs of the hands, - boiling of them in Oyl of Spike, and anointing the finews in the neck. If you take of Caffori* um two drams, of womans hair one dram, and witha little Rozen: of the Pine-Tree, make it. up.into pills as. big as Filberts and perfume a woman in.a fit of the mother with one at atime laid upon coals under her noftrils, it will recover her our of her fit. The greale of a Beaver is good for the Nerves, Convulfions , Epilepfics, Apo- plexies éc. The tail as I have faid in ano- . ther Treatife , is very fat and of a mafcu- line vertue, as good as Bring’ 5.0L Satyrion- Roots. : The Otter or ince Bes is Amphibious too, he hunteth for his kindin the {pring , and bringeth forth his whelps as the Beaver doth, they are generally black, and very nu- . merous, they are hunted in England from Sbrovetide untill Midfummer, but in New- England they take them when they can. The skin of an | Otter is worth Ten Shilli lings, . “and (94) and the Gloves made’ thereof are the beft fortification for the hands againft wit weas therthat can be thought of, the furr is ex- cellent for muffs, and is almoft as dear as Beaver, the greale of an Orter will make fih turn up their bellies, and is of rare ufe for many things. The Hare, Ihave no more to write of them chan that they kindle in hollow Trees. What elfe concerns him,or any of the foré-mentioned Creatures you have in my New-Englands rarities to which Irefer you. - The Porcupine likewife Ihave treated of, only this I forgot to acquaint you with, that they lay Eggs, and are good meat. The laft Kind of Beafts are they that are begot by equivocal generation,as Mules and feveral others, that when the Beafts were brought by the Almighty Creatorto Adam, who gave them names, were not then in _ reram natura. OF thefe there are not many Known in New-Exgland. 1 know but of one, and that is th? Indian dog begotten betwixt a Wolf and a Fox, or between a Pox and a Wolf, which they made ule of, faining or them, and bringing of them up to hunt with, but fice the Englifh came a- monet them they have gotten tore of our dogs, which they bring up and “keepin as much fabjeGrion as they do their webb. os g 95) Of Birds there are not many more «than 120 kinds as our Naturalifis have conjectue red, bur I think they are deceived ; they are divided into land-birds and water-birds, the land-birds again into birds of prey, birds for meat, finging-birds.and others, — ~The Pilbannaw is the King of Birds of prey in New-England, fome take him to be a kind of Eagle, others for the Indiay. — Rack the biggeft Bird that is; except the Oftrich. One Mr. Hiltow living at Pafeata- way, had the hap to kill one of them : being by the Sea-fide he perceived a great fhidow over his head, the Sun thining out clear, cafting up his eyeshe faw a monftrous Bird foaring aloft in the air, and of afudden all | the Ducks and Geefe, ( there being then a - greatmany ) dived under water, nothing of them appearing but their heads. Mr. Hilton having made readie his piece, thot and brought her down to the ground, how he difpofed of her I know not, but hed he taken her alive & fent her over into Exg-. land neither Bartholomew nox Ssurbridge- Fair could have produced fuch another fight. — | | sig SS, | Hawkes there axe of feveral kinds, as Gofbawkes, Falcons, Lanicrs, Sparraw- bawkes, and a little black bawke highly pri- ~ zed by the Indians who wear them on théir | (96) | heads, and is accounted of worth fufficient to ranfome a Sagamour: they are fo ftrange= ly couragious ee hardie, that nothing fiyeth Gn the Air that they will not bind with. T have feen chem tower fo high, that they have been fo fimall that {carcely could they be taken by the eye. Hawkes greale is very | good for fore eyes. - The Ofprey Thave tceated of. There is a {mall Ath-colous Bird that is fhaped like a Hawke with talons and beak that falleth ‘upon Crowes, mounting up into the Air af- ter them, and will beat them till they inake them.cry. The Vulture or Geire, fp is fpoken of in Levit.11. 14.and called a Grape,theis skins are good to line doublets with, and-the | bones of their head hung about the neck helpeth the head-ach. The Gripes fee New Eula rarities,and for the Tarkie-buzzard. The Owl the. mofi flagging Bird that i is, of which there are three forts, a great grey Owl with cars, a little grey Oval, and a whire Owl, which is no bigger than. a Thru. Plinie writes that the b: rains of anOwl af- fwageth the pain & inflammation in the lap of the ear. Andthat Eges of an Owl put into the liquour ‘that a tofpot ufeth to. be “drunk with, will make him loath drunken- | | nels Ga nefs ever after, But now peradventurefome will fay, what doth this man mean to bring Owls to Athens? verily Sirs 1 prefume to fay, — had I brought over of che little white Owls they would have been acceptable, they are good moufers, and pretty Birds to look upon :the Azhenians, no queftion are bet- ter imployed than to take. notice of my. Owls, poor ragged Birds they areand want thofe gliftering golden feathers that Drai- tons Owl is adorned with, yet they are ‘fomewhat of that nature 5 if an Athenian - chance in this feafon of divertifement to caft an eye uponthem I {hall be glad, but ‘more glad if he vouchfafe to prune and correct their feathers, which I confefs are difcompofed for wantof Art; plain Birds they are, and fit for none but plain men to manage.” Sirs do not miftake me, there’s no man living honours an Athenian more than I do, efpecially where I perceive great abilities concomiting with goodne{s of na- tures, A good nature ( faith Mr. Perkins) is the Character of God, and God is the | father of learning, knowledge, and every good gift, and hath condelcended to be- come a School-mafier to us poor mortals, furnifhing of us with Philofophy, Hittorie, Divinity by is holy Scriptures, which if we diligendy learn and practife, we fhallin pe ee ee time - | (98) rime be brought into his Heavenly Acade-. my, where we fhall have fulnefs and perfe- ction of knowledge eternally. But there are a Generation of men and women in this prophane age that defpife Gods learning and his Uthers to. the Athenians, choofing to wallow in the pleafures of fin for a fea- fon. I fhall conclude this excurfion, with that which a Poet writ fometime fince, and then return to the trimming of my Onl. Say thou pour’ ft them Wheat, And they would Acorns eat 5 | *Iwere fimple fury in theethentowat Thy felf, on them that have uo wes yond) No, give them draff their fi ll, bag | Husks, Grains andfwilly They that love Lees and leave the: luftie Wine, Ey them itot, their pan with sbe Swinee The Ravenis here) numerous Bid ares , _ but Rooks, Danes, Popinjaes, Megpies there. be none. It is obferved that the female: of all Birds of prcy. and Ravin is ever ~ bigger than the male, more venturous, har- _ dy, and watchful; but fuch Birds as do not live by prey and Ravin, the male is.more. large than the female. So much for Birds of prey, the next are Birds for the difh, _and the firft of mets | fy : - The (eo 2 "The Tarkie , which:is in New-England — avery large Bird, they breed twice or thrice in a year, if you would preferve the young Chickens alive, you muft give them no wa- ter, for if they come to have their fill of water they will drop away ftrangely, and you will never be able to rear any of them: they are excellent meat, efpecially a Zurkie- Capon beyond that, for which Eight fhil- lings was given, their Eggs are very whole- fome and reftore decayed nature exceeding- ly. But the Frenchbfay they breed the Le- profie ; the Indeffes make Coats of Tzrkie- feathers woven for their Children. | | . Thé Partridge is latget than ours, white fiefht, but very dry, they are indecd a fort | of Partridges called Groofes. eS The Pidgeon, of which there are ‘millions of millions, Ihave feen a flight of Pidgeons in the {pring, and at Michaelmas when they return back to the Southward for four or ” five miles, that to my thinking had _neithes beginning nor ending, length nor breadth, and fo thick that Icould fee no Sun, they joyn Neft > Neft; and Tree to Tree by © their Nefis many miles together in Pzne- Trees. But of late they are much dimi- nifhed, the Englifp takingthem with Nets. Ihave bought at Buftos adozen of Pidgeons ready pull’d and garbidgd for three penc | H 2 Ring, (190) » Ring-Doves they fay: are. thege too, but 1 ~ could never fee any. The Snow Bird is. a a “Chef. Finch, goin flocks and are good meat. : ‘The finging Birds are Thrajhes with red breatts, which will be very fat and are good meat, fo are the Threffels, Filladies are{mall — finging Birds, Ninmurders little yellow Birds. New- England Nightingales painted with orient colours, black, white, blew, _ yellow, green and {carlet, and fing, fweetly, Wood-larks, Wrens, Seiallnees who will fre_ upon Trees, and Starlings black as Ravens with fcarlee pinions; other forts of Birds — there are, as the Troculus,WVag-tail, ox Difh- water, which is here of a brown, colour, -Titmoufe two ox three forts, the Dunineck or hedge-Sparrow who is ftarke naked tn his’ winter nef, The golden or yellow hammer, a Bird about the bignels of a Thrujh that is all over as red as bloud, Wood- -Peckers of wo or three forts, glorioufly fee out with. | venues of glittering colours.. The Colibry,. _ Viemalin, or rifing-or waking Bird, an Em. ° , Biro of the Refurre@ion, and the wonder of little Birds. 3 The water-fowl are: thee ee felon, Hookers or’ wild-Swant, Cranes, Geefe of _ three forts,rey, white, and the brant Goofe, the ue and lait are belt meat, the w pile are | can (18D) ern’ and tough and live a long: time ;_ whereupon the proverb,Older than a white _ Goofe; of the'skins of the necks of: grey Geefe with their Bills the Indians makes _Mintles and Coverlets (owing them together and they fhew prettily. There be four forts of Duck, ablack Ducky a brown Duck, like our wild Ducks, agtcy Duck, and a great - black and white Duck, thefe frequent Rivers and Ponds; but of Ducks there be many more forts,as Hounds, old Wives, Murres, Doies, Shell-drakes , Shoulers ox Sboflers, Widgeons, Simps, Teal , Blew wing?d, and green wing d, Divers or Didapers, or Dip- chicks, Fenduck, Duckers or Moorbens, Coots, Pochards, a water-fowl| like a Duck, Plange- ons, @ kind of water-fow! with a long red: | dif Bill, Paers,Plovers, Smetbes, Wilmores, akind of Teal, Godwits, Humilities;Knotes, ~ Red-Shankes, Wobbles, Loones, Gulls, white Gulls, or Sea-Cobbs, Caudemandies, Herons, grey Birterns, Ox-eyes, Birds called Oxen and - Keen, Petterels, Kings fifhers, which breed — in the {pring in holes in the Sea-banks, being unapt to propagate in Summer, by reafon of ~ the drinets of their bodies, which becomes more moif.when their pores are clofed -by ~ cold. Mott of thefe Fowls and Birds are. eatable, There are little Birds that frequent: the Sea-fhore in flocks called Sandertits ,- sak H 3 ihey (102) --theysare about the bignefs of @ Sparrom, - and in the fall of the leaf will be all fac; when I was firftin the Countrie the Exglifo — cut them into {mall pieces to put into their Puddings inftead of fuet’, I have known twelve {core and above kill’d at two hots. T have not done yet, we muft not forget the Cormorant, Shape ox Sharke; thoughican- » not commend them to our curious palats, the Indians will eat them when they are fley’d they take them prettily, they rooft in | the night upon fome Rock that lyes out in | the Sea, thither the Ixdzan goes in his Birch- Canow when the Moon {hines clear, and when he is come almoft to it, he lets his - Ganow drive on of it felf, when he is come under the Rock he thoves his Boat along till he come juft under the Cormorants watch- man, the reft being afleep, and fo foundly do fleep that they will {nore like fo many Piges; the Indian thrufis up his hand of ‘a fudden, grafping the watchman fo hard round about his neck that he cannot cry — out; asfoon as he hath bimin his Canow . he wrings off his head, and making his Canow faft, he clambreth to the top of the Rock, where walking foftly he takes them up as he pleafeth, fill wringing off their heads; when he hath flain.as many as his Canow can carry, he gives a fhout | | | which (103) oo which awakens the furviving Cormorants, — who are gone inaninflant, =) The next Creatures that youare to take notice of, are they that live in the Elemenc of water. Pliny teckons them to be of 177 kinds, but certainly if it be true that there is no Beaft upon Earth, which hath not his like in the Sea, and which (perhaps) is not in fome part parallel’d in the plants of the Earth; we may bya diligent fearch find - out many more : of the fame opinion is the Poet, who faith that it is Affirm’ d by fome that what on Earth we find, | The Sea can parallel in foape and kind. Divine Dubertus goes further. You Divine wits of elder dayes, from whom The deep invention of rare works hath coms Took you not pattern of our chiefeft Tooles Out of the lap of Vhetis, Lakes,and Pools ° Which partly in the Waves, part on the eages Of craggy Rocks, among thew ragged fedges, Bring forth abundance of Pins, Spincers,fpokes, Pikes, picreers, needles,mallets, pipes Cr yoaks, — Oars, {ails & {words , Jaws , wedges, razors, | pee et Ss vammers, Plumes, cornets, knives, wheels, vices, borns ; | and hammers. H 4 An Cro4) - Palm 104.25, 26. In ipfo mari magno_ e foatiofo, illic reptilia [unt atque innumera animantia parva cum magnis. Illic navea ambulants balexa quam formajiz ludendo IN €00 2 s Bs thee _ And as the females amongft Beafts and Birds of prey for form and beautie furpafs the males, fo do they efpecially amongft. —fithes 5 and thofe Lintend to treat of, I thall divide into falt-water fith, and frefh-water fith. se bs Stas eee se The. Sea that Pifeina. mirabilis affords us the greateft number, of which I (hall begin firtt withthe Whale a regal fith, as all hthes of extraordinary fize are account- ed, of thele there are (as [ have {aid in ano- ther place ).feven kinds, the Ambergrecfe- | Whale the chiecelt. Anno Dom. 1668 the 17 ot July there. was one of them’ thrown up on the thore between Winter-barbeur and ~ Cape-porpus, about cight mile from the place where lived, that was five and fifty foot long. They are Creatures of a vaft mag- nitude and ftrength. The Royal Pfalmift ,_— jn the 148 pflalm, and the 7 verfe, makes _ mention of them. Laudate Febovam terreftrias — Cete ( Dracones as fome travflate it _) & om- nes abyifi. And Mofes in bis hiftory of Job, job 41. 1. An extrabas balenam bam, 8c.’ ee 7 Whereby Whereby the fubtlety of the Devil is fhowed, as alfo, the greatnefs and brutifhnels of the Devil by the Elephant, in the 10 verfe of the foregoing Chapter. In the book of Jonas pro- phecies we read of a great fifh, Jonah 7. 17. Pararat autem Jebova pifcem magnure,qut ob~" — forberet Fonam. But whether ibu mere a Whale or not is queltioned by fome. In the bead (faith Mr. Parkinfon the Herbalift ) ‘of one only fort of Whale-fifh is found tbat which is called {perma Ceti, it lyes’ in a bole therein, as it were a Well, taken out and preft that the oyl may come out, the fubjtance is thar we ufe fortperma Ceti, and hath little or #0 fmell, the oyl fmells firong. See the rarities of _ New-England.- - 3 = The Sea-bare is as big as Grampus or | Herrin-bog, and as white asa fheet ; There hath been of themin Black-point-Harbour, & fome way up the river,but we could never take any of them, feveral have thot fluggs at them, but loft their labour. 20 he The Sturgeon is a Regal fh too, I have feen of them that have been fixteen foot in — length:of their founds they make Ifngla/s, — _ which melted in the mouth is excellent to “heal lemeersy eh SST ae __ Sharkes there are infinite ftore, who tear the Fithermens nets to their great lofs and hinderance; they areof- two forts, one Art ~ headed, (106 ) headed, the other long fnouted,'the pretious fione in their heads ( foveraign for the fione in aman ) fo much coveted by the travelling Chirurgeon.is nought elfe but the brains of the flat-headed Sharke. With | . thefe we may joyn the Dog-fith or Thorn- hound, who hath two long ses & prickles — on his back. The Sea-horfe or Morfe is a kind of monfier-fifh numerous xbout the Ifle of Sables,i.e. The fandy Ifle. An Amphibious Creature kilPd for their’ Teeth and Oy}, never brings forth more than two at 2_ birth 5 as alfo doth the Soil and Manate or .Cow-fith, which is fuppofed to be the Sea- monfter fpoken of by Jeremy, Lament. 4.3. Etiam phoce prebent mammam,laGant catulos | feos ' » So the Latins render it, phoca aSear | Calf or Soil. _ The fmall Sword-fif is very good meat, the Sea-bat or Sea-owl a kind of flying fith. ‘Negroes or Sea-Devils a very ugly fith, having a black {cale, there zre three forts of them, one a hideous fith, another about two foot long; of thefe I have feen ffore in Black-point Harbour in the water, but never atternpted to take any of them. Squids a foft fifh f{omewhat like a cudgel, their horns like a Swails, which fometimes are found to be of an incredible length, — this (107) this fith is much ufed for. bait to catch a Cod, Haeke, Polluck, and the like Sea-fith. — The Dolphin, Bonito, or Dogado, the afhes” of their teeth mixed with honey, is good — to affwage the pain of breeding teeth i in Children. | The Sea-brean, Dine or Amber-fih, they follow fhips as doth the Dolphin, and are good meat. — | The Mackarel, of which there is dicicks full plenty all fummer long, in the {pring they are ordinarily 18 incheslong, after- wards there is none taken but what are {maller. The Liver-fih like a Whiting. ; The Herrixz which are numerous, they tiie of them all fummer long. In Anno Dom. 1670. they were driven into Black- point Harbour by other great ith that prey upcn them fo near the fhore, that’ they threw themfelves (it being high water ) upon dry land in fuch infinite numbers that we might. have gone up half way the leg among(ft them for near a quarter of a mile. We uled to qualifie a pickled Herrin by boiling of him in milk, The Alewife is like a bervin, but as bigger bellie therefore called an Alewife , they come in the end of April into freth is a (108) Rivers and Ponds; there hath, been taken in two hours, time bytwo men without any Weyre at all, faving a few fiones to ftop the paffage of the River, above ten thoufand. The Italian hath a proverb, that he that hath feen one miracle will eafily believe a- mother ; bue this relation far from a mira- cle will peranter. meet, inftead of a belief with an Adulterate conftrugion from thofe - that are {omewhat akin to St. Peters mock-. ers, fuch as deny the Jatt judgement. ey have known in England 9 {core and 16 Pikes and Pickarel hen with three Angles, between the hours of threeand ten in the ‘morning, in the River Odfe in th: Ifle of Ely, three quarters of a yard long above half of them; they make red Alewiver_ after the {amie manner as they do Derrins and are as good. : | The Baffe 1s a {alt water fith too, but” moft an end taken in Rivers. where they | (pawn, there hath been 3000 Baffe taken at afer, one writes that the fac in the bone of a Bap head is his braines which is a lye. - “The Salmon likewile isa Sta-fih, but as — the Baffe co omes into Rivers to (piwa, a Sale mon the fit year isa Salmin-[mol:y Tat | fecond a Morr; Tae third a ‘Speaity 5 Tae, fourth a Svar; Tae fitha SESE fix*h Oe | a. +} C109.), - a forket tails and the feventhiy year a Salmons There are another fort of Salmon frequent in thofe parts Called white Salmons. ~ Capeling is a {mall fith like a fmele. The Turtle or Tortoife is of two forts Sea-Turtles and land-Tursles: of Sea-Turtles there are five forts, of land-TIurtles three forts,one of which is aright land-tzrtle that feldom or never goes into the water, the o- ther two being the River-Turtle, and the pond-Turtle : there are many of thefe inthe brooke Chyfon in the Holy land. The athes of a Sea-Turtle mixt. with oyl or Bears- greafe caufeth hair to grow ;: the thell of a land- Zartle burnt and the. afhes diffolved in wine and oyl to an unguent healeth chaps and fores of the feet: the flcth burnt and the afhes mixt with wine and oyl healeth fore legs :the afhes of the burnt hell and the whites of eggs compounded. together hes- leth chaps in womens nipples; and the — _ head pulverized with it prevents the falling of the hair, and will heal the Hemorrhoids, firft wathing of them with whirte-wine , and then firewing on the powder. Lobfter, which fome fay is at firfta whelk, . Ihave feen a Lobfer that weighed twenty pound , they caft their fhell-coats in the {pring, and fo do Crabs 3 having underneath — a thin red ei} which growesthicker and | : hard (110) 2 hard in (hort time. The Indians feed much upon this fith, forme they rott, atid fome they dry as they do Lampres and Opfers which are delicate break faft meat fo ordered, the Oyfters are long fhell’d, Ehave had of them nine inches long from the point to the toe, containing an Oyfer like thofe the, Latines called Tridacuan that were to be cut into three pieces before they could get them into their mouths, very fat and fweet. The Mufcle is of two forts, Sea-mufcles in which they find Pearl and river-mafeles. Sca-mufcles dryed and pulverized and laid upon the fores of the Piles and hemorrhoids with oy! will perfectly cure them. ‘The Whore is a thell-fith, the fhells are called whores-eggs, being fine round white fhells, in fhape like a Mexico pompion, but no bigger thana good large Hens-epg 5 they are wrought Soi the fides with litele Knobs and holes very prettily, but are but thin and brittle. | ess The Perrzwig is a fhell-fith that lyeth in the Sands flat and round as a fhovel-board ‘piece and very little thicker, thefe at a lit- - tle hole inthe middle of the thell thruft ouc acap of hair, but upon the leaft motion of any danger it drawes it in again. ect ‘Trouts there be good ftore in every brook, ordinarily two and twenty inches St: : long, : 2) | long, their greafe is good forthe Piles and clifts. ie Sis gt Ss ae _ The Eal is of two forts, falt-water Eis and frefh-water Eals; thefe again are diftin- guifhed into yellow bellied Eals and filves _ bellied Eals 3 I never eat better Eals in no partcf the world that I have beenin, than archere. They that have no mind or leafure to take them, may buy of an Indian half a dozen filver bellicd Eals as big as thofe we _ufually give 8 pence or 12 pence a piece for at Londou,for three pence or a groat . There is feveral wayes of cooking them, fome love them roafted, others baked, and many will have them fryed 5 but they pleafe my palate belt when they are boiled , acom- mon way it isto boil them in half water, half wine with the bottom of a manchet, afagot of Parfley, and a little winter favo- ry, when they are boiled they take them out and break the bread in the broth, and pue — to it three or four {poonfuls of yeft, and a picce of fweet butter, this they pour to their Eals laid upon fippetsand fo ferve ic up. I fancie my way better which is this, after the Eals arefley’d and wathe I fill their bellies with Nutmeg grated and Cloves a _ litele bruifed,and fow them up with a needle and thred, then I flick a Clove here and there in their fides about an inch afunder, | making (Al2 ) making holes for then with a bodkin, this ‘done I wind them up in a wreath and put them into a kettle with half water and half white wine-vinegar, fo much as will rife four fingers above the Eals; in midftof the- Eals 1 put the bottom of a:penny white . loaf, and a fagot of thefe herbs aromas Parfley one handiul,a little fweet Marjoram, . ~ Peniroyal and Savory, a branch of Rofe- mary, bind them up with athred,and when they are boiled enough take out the Els and pull out the threds that. thcir bellies were fowed up with, turn out the Nutmeg and Cloves, put the Fals in adifh with - butter and vinegar upon’a chating-dith with coals to keep warm, chen put into the bgoth — three or four fpoonfuls of good Ale-yeatft with the ] Juice of half a Lemmon; but’ be- fore you put in your yeaft beat it in a porrin- -ger with fome of the brath, then break the cruft of bread very {mall and mingle it well together with the broth, pour it into a deey difh and garnifh it with the other half of the Lemmon, and fo ferve them up to the Table in two difhes. _ The Froft fifh is little bigger than a Gad _ geon and are taken jn frefh brooks,when the waters are frozen they make a hole in the Ice about half a yard or yard wide, to which then fill repair in great numbers, where with = _ fmall me (113) : {mall nets boundto a hoop about the big- _ nefs of a fekin-hoop with a ftaff fafined to it they lade chem out of the hole. _E have not done with the fifi yet, being willing to let you know all of them that aré tobe | feen and catch’d in the Sea and frefh waters | in New- England, and becaufe I will not tire your patience overmuch, having no occafi- on to enlarge my difcourfe, I thall only name them and fo conclude. 2 Alepore ei Cunner Maid Albicore - Sea-Darts — Monk-fifh Barracha or Favelins Sea-mullee— Barraconthe Flail-fifh Nun-fifh Blew-fifh Flounder Perch — Bull-bead =~ or Flowke = Pollucke St Bar-fifo Flying-fifo Periwinele Cat-fifh — feveral kinds Pike Cony-fifo . Sea-Flee _— Pilat-fifh Cusk Grandpiffe Plaice Glan —s Hake Porpiffe — Rock-Cod- . Haddock + Prawne . Sea-Cod Horfe- foot Purple-fifo — divers — Hallibus ———- Porgee kinds of = Hen-fifh © Remora Crabs .. Lampre - Sea-Raven Sea-Cacum- Limpin . Sail-fifh bes = tants, _ Sealop Seater (1I4) Scate Smelt Tarbee Stingray — Shrimps The Vlatife Sculptz Sprates sor fa-fifh Shadd _— Star-fifh | Sea-Urchin Sparlin _ Sword-fifh — Sea-Unichorn Sheath-fifh Thornback — ) eee The fth are fwum by, and the Serpents -akecrécping on,terrible creatures, carrying ‘fitngs in their tails. It will fart worfe than a Satyrs whip, though it were as big as Mr. Shepperds tHe mad Gentlethan at Milton- Mowbrayes Conftantinus Laftulue «© / The chief or Captain of thefe is the Be Rattle-{nake defcribed already in my Jour- nal, in fome places of the Countrey there are-noneas at Piimouth, New-town, Nabant and fome other places, they willlive on one fide of the River, and but {wimming over and coming into the woods dye immedi- ately. 4 The fatof a Rattle-fnake is very Sove- raign for frozen limbs, bruifes, lamenefs by falls, Aches, Sprains. The heart of a Rattle- {fnake dried and pulverized and drunk with _ wit ©r beer is an approved remgdy againkt the biting and venome of a Rattle-(nake. — Some body -will give ine thanks for difto- ss Se __-vering, (rts) | vering thelt fecrets and the felt ; Non onan Om. omnia conveni unt. The Saake of which there ate infinite BES of -various colours, fome black, others painted with red, yellow and whité, fome agiin of a grals-green colour powde- ted all over as it were with filver duft or Mafcovie- -plafs. But there is one fort that exceeds all the reft, and that is the Check- - quered fnake, having as many colours with-— in the checkquers thaddowing one another, as there are ina Rainbow. There are two forts of {nakes, the land-fnake and the wa- ter-fnake 5 the ‘water-(nake will be as big about the belly as the Calf of a mans leg ; Enever heard of any mifchief that fnakes did, they Kill thern fometimes for their skins and bones to make hatbandscff, their: skins likéewife worn as a Garter is an ' excel- lent remedie apainft the cramp. { have found of the skins that they caft in woods in fome quantity, they caft not their very, skins, but only the fuperfluous thin skin that is upon the very skin, for the very skin. is batted to the fleth, fo Lobfters and Crabs. ~The Earth-worm , thefe are very rare and as {mall as a horfe: hair, but, there isa. Bug that lyes in the earth and eateth the - feed, that is fomewhat like a Maggot of 2 whire colour with a red head, and ‘1s about, I 2 | the , (116) the bignets o of ones finger and an inch or an inchand half long. There is alfo a dark dunaith Worm or Bug of the bignels of an_ Oaten-ftraw, and an inch long , that in the {pring lye at the Root of Corn .and Garden plants all day, and in the night creep out and devour them; thefe infome years de- {troy abundance of Indian Coxn and Garden. plants, and they have but one way to be rid of them, which the Englifh have learnt of the Indians 3 And becaufe it is fomewhat_ firange, I thall tell you how it is, they go out into a ficld or garden with a Birchen- difh,ind fpudling the earth about the roots, for they lye not deep, they gather their difh full which may contain about a quart or three pints, then they carrie the dith to the. Sea-fide-when it is ebbing-water and {ct it a. {wimming, the water carricth the dith into the Sea and within a day ortwo if you go into your field you may look your eyes out. fooner than find any of them. _ Sow-bugs or Maillipedes there be good ftore, but none of that fort that are blew and tim round asa pea when they are touched 3 neither are there any Beetles nor Maple-bags, but a ftinking black and red. Bug called a.Cacarooch or Cockroach, anda little black Bug like a Lady-cow that breeds, in skins and furis and wi ll eat them to tLeir. * utter | Be ee utter {poil. Likewife there be infinite num: bers of Tikes hanging upon the bufhes in’ fummer time that will cleave to a mans garments and creep into his’ Breeches eating’ _themfeives in a {hort time into the very fieth: of aman. T have (cea the ftockins of tholé that have gone through the woods cove-‘— red with them. Befides thefe there is a_- Bug, but whether it be a Native to the: Countrie or aftranger Icannot fay : Some® sare of opinion that they are brought in by’ the Merchant with Spanith goods, they in- feft our beds moft, all day they ‘hide them- felves, ‘but when night comes they will’ creep to the fleeping wretch ‘and bite him worle than aflea, which raifeth a {welling knub that ‘will itch intolerably , if you feratch it waxeth bigger and growes toa fcab; and if you chance to break one of the Bugs it will ftink odiovfly: they call’ them Chinches or Wood-lice, they are fat,red and in’ fhape like a Tike and no bigger.’ There are alfo Palmer-worms which isa kind of Catterpiller, thefefome years will devour the leaves of Trees leaving them as naked almoft as in winter, they domuch harm in the Englifh O:chards. Ot Suails there are but few, and thofe very little ones, | they lye at the Roots of long grafs in moilt pues and areno where clfe to be found,’ i 2 8 Spee Cus) Spiders and Spinners there be many, the Jaf very big and of feveral colours... © _ "The Pifmire or Ant mutt not be Sail ten, accounted the leaft Creature, and by. Salomon commended for its wifdom, Prov. 30+.34,25- Quatuor ifta parva font burmilia, samen {unt fapientia, apprime fapientia: for- ‘mice populus.infirmus, que comparant eftate cibum fuum, &. There are two. forts, xed Ants and biack Ants, both of them are ma: ny times found’ winged ; not. long fince, they were poured. upon the. Sands out of the clouds in a fiorm betwixt Black-poine and Saco, where the paflenger might have walk upto the Ankles’ inthem.. The Grathopper is innumerable and big- ger by much than ours in England, ‘having Tinfel-wings, with help whereof,,they will flye and skip a great way. Next.to thefe in | number are your: Crickets, aman can walk no where in the fummer bu he fhall tread. upon them; The Italian who bath them, | 4 cryed up .and down the fieets ( Grille che cautelo ) and buyeth them to put into his Gardens , if he were in New-England would gladly be rid of them, they make fuch.a dirn inan Evening. 1 could never difcover! the Organ of their voice, they have a little clift in their Crown which _ opens, and at the fame infant they fhake. then ayn De aap ‘The Paired Cig) The Eft or Swift in. New-England:is isa moft beautiful Creature to look upon, be- ing largex than ours, and. painted with glo. tious colours; but ; bia, him never the better for 1. Frogs too there are in ponds and upon dry Jand, they chirp like Birds in the- {pring, and latter end of furmer croak like Toads. It ig admirable to confider the generating of thefe Creatures, firfithey lay their gelly on the water in ponds and fill | waters, which comes in time to be full of. black {potsas broad as the head of a Ten.. penny nail, and round, thefe feparate them- felves from the gleir, and atter a-whilc, thruft out a tail,then their head comes forth, after their head fprings out their forc-legs, and then their hinder-legs, then their tail, drops’ off, and ‘growes. to havea head and. four legs too,the firft proves a frog, the lat=. terawater:nuct. The Herbalift ufeth to: fay by way of admiration, quelibet herba de- um @-c. $0 God is feen in the production of . thefe {mall. Creatures which are a part of the Creation; Laudate Febouam calites ,, loudate eusn in excelfis, &c. Laudent nomen Febove que ipfo precipiente illice creata fant. Gc. ipfe beftie & omues jumenta, reptilia @ aves alate, Plal. 148. 4 Fae Toad is of two forts, one that is: bq. jpees4 {peckied with white, and another of a ‘a dark earthy colour ; there is of them that’ will climbupinto Trees and fit croaking: there 3 but whether it be of a third fore, or one of the other, or both, I am not able to: affirm ; buat this I can teftifie that there be Toads ‘of the dark coloured kind that are as big as agroat loaf. ‘Which report will not {well into the belief of my fceptique Sirs ; nor that there is a Hell, being like Salomon’s foo), Prov. 26.22. Sed fi contun- ~ deres ftultum in mortario cum mola piftillo, a von recederct ab eo ftultitia ejus. ~ Now before I proceed any further, I mult ( to prevent mifconfiructions ) tell — you that thele following Creatures, though — _ they be not properly accounted Serpents, yet they are venomous and peftilent Crea- tures. As, firft the Rat, but he hath been brought in fince the Englifh came thither, but the Monfe is a Native, of which there _ are feveral kinds not material to be defcri- bed; the Bat or flitrer moufe is bigger a- bundance than any in. England andiwarm, - which brings me to the infects or cut-wafted Creatures again, as firft the honey-Bee, which are carried over bythe Englif> and thrive there exceedingly, in timethey may _ be produced from Bullocks when the wild. - Beafts are deftroyed. But the wafp is com- “bee ane : C121 ) mon, and they have'a (ort of wild humbles Bee that breed in'little holes in the earth. Near upon twenty years fince there lived an old planter at Black-point,who on a Sunthine day about one of the clock lying upona. green bank not far from his houfe, charged his Son, a lad of 12 years of age to a- waken him when he had flept two hours, the old man falls afleep and lying upon his _ back gaped with his mouth wide enough for aHawke to fhit intoit, after a little while the lad ‘fitting by {pied a humble- Bee creeping out of his Fathers mouth, which taking wing flew quite out of fi ight, the hour as the lad ghefi being come to awaken his Father he joge’d him and cal- Jed aloud Father, Father, it is two a clock; but all would not roufe him, at laft he fees the humble- Bee returning, who lighted up- on the fleepers lip and walked down as the jad conceived into his belly, and pretently he awaked. The Countrey is firangely sacinenviles | ted with flyes,- which the Englifh call Musketaes, they are like our gnats, they. will fang fo fiercely in fummer as to take - the faces of the Englifh fwell’'d and fcab- | by, as if the (mall pox for the firft year. Likewife there is a {mall black fly no bigger than a fica, fo numerous up in the Se | {nat ~~ (122) that a man cannot draw his breath, but he will fuck of them in : they. continue about Thirty dayes fay fome , but I fay three moneths, and are not only a pefter-— ment but a plague tothe Countrey- . There is another fort .of fly called a Gurnipper | that are like our-horfe-flyes, and will bite defperately, making, the bloud to fpurt out in great quantity 5 thefetrouble our Eng- life Cattle very much, railing {wellings as big as an ege in their hides. The Buttesfly Js of feveral forts and: larger than ours 5 So are their. ‘Dragon-flyes.. Glow-worms have here wings, there are multitudes of them infomuch that in the dark evening when 1 firft went into the Countrey I thought the whole Heavens had been on fire, fecing fo many fparkles flying inthe air: about Mount-Carmel, and the valley of © Acree in the Holy-land there be abundance of them, Thefe are taken for Cantharides. Cunha: y vides ave green flyes by day, inthe night they “pals about like a flying Glow-worm with pre in their tails. ::. ~- I have finithed now my relation af silids éc. Vhave taken fome pains in re-— Colleting of themto memory, and fet ting of them down for their benefit from whom = I may expect thanks 5 but I believe my es 2 wal (123) ward will be. according to Ben Fobufins | proverbs, Whifile to a Jade and he will pay you with a fart,Claw a chur) by the britch and he will fhit in your fit. | » ~The people that inhabited. this Countrey | are judged to be of the Lartars called Sa- — mouids that border upon. Mofcoviz, and axe divided into: Tribes thofe to the Eaft and -North-eaft are called Churcbers and Taren- tines, and Monhegans. To the South are the Pequets and Narraganfets. Weltwasd Cun- neCicuts and Mombacks. To the Northward Aberginians which confitt of Mattachufets, | Wippanapsand Tarrentines. The Pocauskets live to the Weftward of Plimoutb.Not long before the Englifh came into the Countrey, - happened a great mortality. amongft them, cipecially where the Englifh atterwards planted, the Eaft and Northern parts were . fore {mitten with the Contagion ; firft by the plague, afterwards when the Engli/h came by the {mall pox, the three. Kingdoms or Sagamorfhips of the Mattachufets were very populous, having under them feven Dukedoms or petti-Sagamorfhips, but by the plague were brought from 30000to 300. There are not many now to the Eaft- ward, the Peguots were deftroyed by the Englifh : the Mombacks are about five hun- dred: Theis fpeech a dialecs of the Zur- } tars Ty (124) i ~ gars, (as alfo is the Turkifh tongue )There is | difference between Tongues and Languages, — the divifion of fpeech-at Babel is moft pro- perly called Languages, the reft Tongues. — ° As for their perfons they are tall and handfome timber’d people , out-wrifted , pale and lean Tartayian vifag’d, black’ eycd which is accounted the firongeft for’ fight, and generally black hair’d, both’ — _ fmooth and curl’d wearing of it long. No — beards, or very rarely, their Feeth are very white, fhort and even, they account them: the mott neceffary and beft parts of man ; And. as the Auffreans are known by their _ great lips, the Bavariaxs by their pokes un- der theit chins, the Fes by their gopele eyes, fo the Indians by their flat nofes, yet’ are they not fo much depreft as they are to the Southward. - The Indeffes that are young, are fome of them very comely, having good features, their faces plump and round, and generally’ plump of their Bodies, as are the men like-— wife, and as fott and {mooth as a mole-skin, of reafonable good -complexions, bat that they dye themfclves tawnie, many prettie Brownetto’s and fpider ‘tinger’d L ffes may befcen amongft them. “TheVetula’s or old women are lean anduglie, all of them are of a model demeanor , confidering ‘their’ . £ R124) | Savage. breeding ;.and indecd do fhame our Englifh rufticks whofe rudenefS i in many things exceedeth theirs. Of difpofition very inconfiant , crafty, | timorous, quick of . apprehention, and very ingenious, foon angry, and fo malicious that they feldom forget.an injury, and bar- baroufly cruel, witnels their. direful reven- ges upon one another, Prone to injurious violence and flaughter,. by reafon of | their bloud dryed up wih overmuch fire, very lecherous proceeding from choller adu& and melancholy , a falt and (harp humour 3 - very fingurative or theevifh, and bold im- portunate beggars, both Men and Women guilty of Mifoxenie or hatred to ftrangers , a quality appropriated tothe old Brittains, all of them Cannibals, eaters of humane ficth. And fo were formerly the Heathen- Trifo, who ufed to feed upon the Buttocks of Boyes and Womens Paps 3 it feems it is natural to Savage people fo to do. Ihave read in Relations of the Indiaxs amongt. the Spaniards that they would not eat a Spaniard till they tad kept him two or three dayes to wax tender, becaufe their ficth was hard. At Martins vinyard, an Ifland that lyes South to Plimouth in the wiy to Vingi~ nia, certain. Indians ( whilft 1 was. inthe Countrey ) feifed upon a Boat that Pat in- to 16) to aBy- Cove, krlPd the men and ¢ eat thet up ia a hort time before they were difto- vered. Their houfes which they call Widens, 3 are built with Poles pitcht i into the ground of a round form for moft part, fometimes fquare, they bind down the tops of heir polés, leaving a hole for fmoak to go out at, the reft they cover with the bark of Trees, and line the infide of their Wigwams with, | mats made of Ruthes' painted with feveral colours, one good poft they fet up in the middie that reaches to the hole in the top, with a faff 4 ctofs before it at a convenient height, they knock in a pin on which they hang their Kettle, beneath that they fee up - abroad ftone for aback which keepeth the poft from burning; round by the walls they (pread their mats atid skins where the men fleep whilft their women drefs theis viduals, they have commonly two doors, one ope-- _ hing to the South, the other to the North, aad according as the wind fits, they clofe ! wp one door with bark and hang. a Dears skin of the like before the other. Towns they have none , being alwayes removing — - from one place to another ‘for Be 9 8 of food , fometimes to thofe places where one fort of filh is’ moft plentiful, other whiles where others are. 2 have feeh half. a (127) hundred of their Wigwams together in a ' piece of gtound and they thew prettily, within a day or two, or a week they have been all difperfed. They live for the moft part by the Sea-fide, efpecially in the {pring and fumimer quarters, in winter they are - gone up into the Countrie to hunt Deer and Beaver, the younger webbs going with — them. Tame Cattle they have none, ¢x- cepting, Lice, and Doggs of a wild breed that they bring up to hunt with. — Wives they have two or three, according to the ability of their bodies and firength of their concupifcence, who have. the eatieft labours of any women in the world ; they will go out when their time is come alone, carrying a board with them two foot long; — and a foot and half broad, bord full of holes on each fide, having a foot beneath like a Jack that we pull Boots off with, on the top of the board abroad ftrap of Iea- ther which they put over their fore-head, the board hanging at their back; when they are come to a Buh or a Tree that they fancy they lay them down and are: delivered in a trice; not fo much as groaning for it, they wrap the'child up in a young Beaver-skini with hisheels clofe tohisbritch, Jeaving a little hole if it be a Boy for his Cock to peep out at; and lace him down to the wine L board | C428) 3) | board upon his back, his knees refting upon | the foot beneath, chen putting. the ftrap of - Teather upon their fore-head with the infant hanging at their back home they trudge ; What other ceremonies they ufe more than dying of them with a liquor of boiled Hem- fock-Bark yand their throwing of them into the warer if they fufpe@ the Child to be gotten by any other Nation, to fee.if he will {wim, if he {wim they acknowledge him for their own, their names they give them when they are men grown, and covet much to be called after our Englif manner, Robin, Harry, Philip and the. like, very in- dulgent they are to-their Children , and their children fometimes to their Parents, but if they live folong that they become — a burden to them, they will-cither ftarve them or bury them alive, as it was fuppofed an Indianz did his Mother at Cafco in 1669. ’ «Their Apparel before the Englifh came — amongft them, was the skins of wild Beafts with the hair on , Buskins of Deers-skin or Moofe dreft and drawn with lines into feveral works, the lines being coloured with — ycllow, blew or red; Pumps too they have, - made of tough skins without foles. Inthe winter when the {now will bear them, they - _ faften to their feet their {now thooes which are Made like a large Racket we play at | | Tennis i Ci29 ) = Tennis with, lacing them with Deers-puts . and the Jike, under their belly they wear a fquare piece of leather and the like upon their pofteriors, both faftened to a firing tyed about them to hide their fecrets 5 on — theix heads they ware nothing: But fince they have had to do with the Englifh they purchafe of them a fort of Cloth called trading cloth of which they make Mantles, Coats with fhort fleeves, and caps for their heads which the women ufe, but the men continue their old fafhion going bare-heade ed, excepting fome old men amongft them. They are very proud as appeareth by their fetting themfelves out with white and blew Beads of their own making, and painting of their faces with the above mentioned ‘colours,they weave fometimes curious Coats with Tarkie feathers for their Children. ~ Their Diet is Fith and Fowl, Bear, Wild- cat, Rattoon and Deer; dry’d Oyfters , Lobjters xofted or dryed in the {moak, Lampres and dry’d Moofe-tongues,; which they efteem a difh fora Sagamor shard eggs boiled-and made{mall and dryed to thicken their broth with, fale they have not the ufe , of, nor bread, their Indian Corn and Kid~ — ; ney beans they boil, and fometimes eat theit | Corn parcht or roafted in the ear againfit the | fie ; they feed likewife upon. earth-nuts 5“ : | aa 2 Oe ee) or ground-nuts, rocts of water-Lillies , Chcf-nuts , and divers forts of Berries. They beat their Corn to powder and’ put ie up intobags, which they make ufe of when fiormie weather or the like will not fufier them to look out for their food. Pompiens and water-Mellons too they have good fiore; they have prodigious ftomachs, devouring acrucl deal, meer voragoes , never giving over eating-as long as they have it, between “meals {pending their time in fleep till the next kettlefull is boiled, when all is gone they fatishie themfelves with a {mall guanti-— ty of the meal, making it ferveas the fru- gal bit amongft the old Britains, which - ' taken to the mountenance of a Bean would ‘fatishe, both thirft and hunger. If they have none of this, as fometimes, it falleth out | ( being a very carelefs people not providing again{t the ftorms of want and tempeft of neceflity ) they make ufe of Sir Francis Drake’s remedy for hunger,go to fleep. . They live long,even to an hundred. years of age, if they be not cut off by their Chil- dren, war, and the plague, which together withthe fmall pox hath taken away abun- dance of them. P.iny reckcns up but 300 | WDileafes in and about man, latter writers — _ Six thoufand, 236 belonging to the eyes. Phere arc not fo many Difeafes raign-— ing | —C1BY)- ing atnonptt them as our Europeans. The great pox is proper to them, by reafon (aS — -fome do deem ) that they are Man-eaters, which Difeafe was brought amongft oué Exropeans tft by the Spaniards that went with Chriftopber Columbus who brought it — to Naples with their Indian-women, with whom the italians and French converfed _ Anno Dom. 1493. Paracelfus faith it hap- ned inthe year 1478 and 1480: Bat all a- -grecthat it was not known in Enrope be- fore Columbus his voyage to America. It hath continued amongft us above two hun- dred and three fcore years. Fhere are Dif- eafes that are proper to certain climates, as the Leprofie to A gypt, {welling of the Throat or Mentegra to Afa , the {weating ficknefs to the Inhabitants of the North; to the Portagals the Phthifick, to Savoy the | mumps; So tothe Weft-Indies the Pox, but this doth not exclude other Difeafes: ToNew-England the Indians are affli@ed with peftilent Feavers, Plague, Black-pox, Confumption of the Lungs, Falling-fick- mefs, Kings-evil, and a Difeafe called by the Spanisrd the Plague in the back, with US Empyema, their Phyficians are the Pow- ams or Indian Pricfts who cure fometimes by charms and medicine, but in a general infection they feldom come amongft them, - eee : K 2 -. there- ~~ (132) therefore they ufe their own. remedies , which is {weating, @c. Their manner is when thcy have plague or {mall pox amongft them to cover theit Wigwams with Bark fo clofe that no Air can enter in, lining them ‘( as Efaid before ) within, and making a. great fire they remain there witha ftewing heat till chey are in atop fweat, and then run out into the Sea or River, and prefent- dy after they are come into their Hutts a- gain they either recover or give up the Ghoft ; they dye patiently both men and women, not knowing of a Hell to {care them, nor a Confcience toterrifie them. In times of general Mortality they omit the Ceremonies of burying, ¢xpofing their on dead Carkafes to the Beafts of prey. But at other times they dig a Pit and fet the difea- fed therein upon his: breech upright, and throwing in the earth , cover it with the fods and bind them down with fticks ; drivifig in two flakes at @ach end; their mournings are fomewhat like the howlings of the Dib, feldom at the grave but in the Wigwam where the party dyed, blaming — the Devil for his hard heartednefs, and con- cluding with sude prayers to him to affi@ ehem no further. a | They acknowledge a Godwho. they call. Syuantam, but worlhip. him they wigs i seas = \ (133) pee becaufe ( they fay ) he will do them no — harm. But Abbsmocho or Cheepie many times {mites them with incurable Difeafes, {cares them with his Apparitions and pan- — nick Terrours, by reafon whereof they live in a wretched confternation worfhipping -the Devil for fear. One black Robiz an Indian fitting down in the Corn field be-— longing to the houfe where J refided , ran out of his Wigwam frighted with the appa- rition of two infernal {pirits in the fhape Of Mobawkes. Another time two Indi- ans and an Indefs, came running into our houfe crying out they fhould all dye, Cheepie was gone over the field gliding in the Air with a long rope hanging from one of his Jegs:. we askt them what he was like, they faid all wone Englifoman, clothed with hat- and coat, fhooesand ftockings, ec. They havea remaikable obfervation of a flame that appears before the death of an Indian or Englifh upon their Wigwams in the dead of thenight: The firlt time that I did fee it, 1 was call’d out by fome of them about twelve of the clock, it being avery dark night, I perceived it plainly mounting into the Air over our Church, which was built upon a plain little more than half a quarter of a mile from our dwelling ‘houfe, on the Northfide of the Church: look on |. K 3. what 13g) e2- what fide of ahoufe it appears, from thae. Coatt re you fhall hear of a ‘Coarfe within two or three days. They worthip the Devil ¢ as I faid ): heir Priefis are called Powaws and are little bet- ter than Witches, for they have familiar conference with him , who makes them ‘invulnergble, that is fhot- free and ftick-free. Craftie Rogues, abufing, the reft at their p’eafure, having power over them by reafon of their Diabolical Art incuring of Difea- — ie, which is pistons with rude Ceremo- es 5 they place the fick upon the ground .. Boe, and dance in an Antick manner round about him, beating their naked breafts with a trong hand, and making his deous faces,fometimes calling upon the’ De- vil for his hel p, mingling their prayers wich horrid and barbarous charms ; if the fick recover, they fend rich gifts, their Bowes and Arrowes, Wompompers, Mobacks, Bea- ver nn or other rich Furs tothe E-ft- | ward, where there is a vaft Rock not far fromthe fhore, having aholeiaicot anun- — fearchable pro aS into which ney io them. Their Thcologie is not ae but que- fie lefs they acknowledge a Gad anda _ Devil, and fome fmall light they have of the Sou lsimmortality 5 for ask chet wht- Pe REE Cie ther they go when they dye, they will tell you pointing with their finger to Heaven | beyond the white mountains, and do hint — at Noab’s Floud, as may be conceived by aftory they have received from Father to Son, time out of mind, that a great while » agon theis Countrey was drowned, and all the People and other Creatures in it, only one Powaw and his Webb forefeeing the . Floud fled to the white mountains carrying a hare along with them and fo efcaped, after a while the Powaw {ent the Hare away, who not returning, emboldned thereby _they defcended, and lived many years after, and had many Children, from whom the Countrie was filled again with Indians. Some of them tell another fiory of the Beaver, faying that he was their Father. Their learning is very little or none, Poets they are as may be gheffed by. their formal fpeeches, fometimes an hour long, the laft word of a line riming with the laft ‘word of the following line,and the whole doth Conjtare ex pedibus.Mutical too they be, — having many pretty odd barbarous tunes — which they make ufe of vocally at marria- ges and feaftings; but Inftruments they had none before the Englifp came amongft them, fince they have imitated them and will make out Kitts and firing them as neat-_ | K 4 es ly, = eae. Uy . |y, and as Artificially as the beft Fiddle, maker amongit us; and will play our plain” icflons very exactly: the only Fidler that - was in the Province. of Meyn , when 1. wasthere, was an Indian called Scogway, — whom the Fifhermen and planters when | they hada mind to be merry made ufe of, Arithmetick they skill not, reckoning to ten upon their fingers, and if more doub- ling of it by holding their fingers up, their age they reckon by Moons, and their acti- ons by ileeps, as, if they go a journie, or are to do any other bufinefs they will fay, enree fleeps me walk, or two or three fleeps me do fuch a thing, that is in two or three days. Altronomie too they have no knowledge of, feldom or never taking ob- fervation of the Stars, Eclipfes, or Comets that [could perceives but they will Prog- nofticate threwdly. what weather will fall out. They are generally excellent Zenagogues os guides through their Countrie. Their exercifes are hunting and fifhing, - inboth they will take abundance of pains. When the fnow will bear them, the young ‘ _ and luftie Indians, ( leaving their papoufes and old people at home ) go forth to hunt Moofe,Deere, Bear and Beaver , Thirty or forty miles up into the Countrey; when they light upon a Movfe they run him _ ae ee Eee re _whteh (137) which is fometimes in half a day, fome- oS timesa whole day, but never give him over ull they have tyred him, the fnow being ufually four foot deep, and the Besft very heavic he finks every flep, and as he runs _ fometimes bears down Arms of Trees that hang in his way, with his horns, as big as a mans thigh ; other whiles, if any of their dogs ( which are but {mall come - near, yerking out his’ heels (¢ for he ftrikes like a horfe) if a {mall Tree be in the way. he breaks it quite afunder with one ftrnak, at laft they getup to himon each fide and .tranfpierce him with their Lances, which formerly were no other but a flaff of a yard and half pointed with a Fifhes bone made {harp atthe end , but fince they. put on picces of {word-blades which they pur- chafe of the French, and having a ftrap of leather fafinedto the but end of the flat ‘ which they bring down tothe midft of it, they dart it into his fides, beret latere Ietha- lis aruxdo,the poor Creature groans, and wa'ks on heavily, for a fpace, then finks and falls down like aruined building, making the Earth to quake; then prefently in come the Victors,who Having cut the throat _ of the flain take off his skin, their young webbsLy this time are walking towards them with heavie bags and kettles at their i se 3 backs, (138) ales backs, who laying down their burdens-fiil — to. work upon the Carkals, take out the heart, and trom that the bone, cut cff the left foot behind, draw out the finews, and cut out his tongue ec. and as much of the Venifon as will ferve to fatiate the hun- Sry mawes of the Company ; mean while the men pitch upon a place near. fome {pring, and with their {now fhoos fhovel the {now away to the bare Earth in a circle, making round about a wall of fnows in the midit th y enake their Vulean or fire near to a great Tree, upon the fnags whereof they hang. their kecdes fiPd with the Venifon; whilft that boils, the men after they have refrefbt chemfelves wieh a pipe of Tobacco difpofe themfelves to fleep. The women tend the Cookerie, fome of them fcrape the jlime and fat from the skin, cleanfe the finews, and flretch them and the like; when che venifon is boiled the men awake, and epening of their bags take out as much Indian meal as will ferve their turns for the prefent; they eat their broth with {poons, and their fi.fh they divide into gobbets,eat-, Ing now and then withit as much meal as they can hoid betwixt three fingers, their - daink they fecch from the (pring, and were not acquaintcd with other, untill the Frenes | and Englih traded with that curled liquor ) ~cailed (339) called Rum, Ram-bullion, or killeDevil, — which is fironger than (isit of Wine, and is drawn from the drofs of Sugar ana Su- gar Canes, this they love dearly, and will part with all they haveto their bare skins for it, being perpetually drunk with it, as long as it is to be had, it hath killed many of them, efpecially old women who have dyed when dead drunk. Thus inftead of bringing of them to the knowledge of Chriftianitie, we have taught them to com- mit the beafily and crying fins of our Na- tion,for alittle profir,. When the Indians have fiute their paunches, if ic be fair wea- ther and about midday they venture forth again, but if it-be foul and far fpent, they betake themfelves to their field-bed at the fign of the Star, expecting the opening of the Eaftern window, which if ic promife {erenity, they trufsup their fardles, and a- ‘way for another Moofe, this courte they con- tinue for fix weeks or two moneths,making their Webbs their Mules tocarry their lug- gaee, they donot trouble themfelves with ~ the horns of Moofe or other Deer,uniefs it be near an Englifh plantation 5 becaule they are weighty & cumberfome.If the Exglifh couid procure them to bring them in, they would be worth the pains and charge, being, fold ia Paglana: aftce the rate = forty. or titty pouncs | (140) Be poundsa Tun;the red heads of Deer are — the faireft and fulleft of marrow, and light-— eft; the black heads are heavie and have lefs “marrow; the white are the worft, and the - _ worft nourifhed.When the Indians are gone, there gathers to the Carkafs of the Muofe. thoufands of Mattrifes, of which there are’ but few or nonencar the Sea-coafts to be © feen, chefe devour the remainder ina quar- ter of the time that they were hunting of Ife | ao Their fifhing followes inthe {pring,fum-. mer and fall of the leaf. Firft for Lobjters, Clams, Flouke, Lumps or Pcdles, and Ale- wives; afterwards for Bafs; Cod, Rock, Blew= fifh, Salmon, and Lampres,&c. = Fees ,,. The Lobjfters they take in large Bayes _ when it islow water, the wind ftill, going out in their Birchen-Canows with a ftaff ewo or three yards long, made {mall ‘and — fharpen’d at one end,and nick’d with deep nicks to take hold. When they fpyethe Lob- fier crawling upon the Sandintwo fathom water, more or lefs, they flick him towards the head and bring him up. T have known © thirty Lobfters taken by an Indian lad in an ~ hour and a half, thus tney take Flovke and Lumps , Clams they dig out of the Ctam- bawks upon the flats and in creeks when it is low water, where they are bedded fome- times C14r). times a yard dcep one wpon another, the — beds a quarter of a mile in length, and lef, the Alewives they take with Nets likea purfenet put upon around hoopd ftick with a handle in freth ponds where the come tof{pawn. The Bafs and Blew-fifh they take in harbours, and at the mouth of barr’d Rivers being in their Canows, firiking them with a fifgig, a kind of dart or ftaff, to the lower end whereof they faften a {harp jagged bone ( fince they make them — of Tron ) with a ftring fafiened to it, as foon _as the fith is ftruck they pull away the ftaff leaving the bony head in the fithes body and. faften the other end of the ftring to the | Canuw : Thus'they will haleafter them fo fhore half a dozen or half a {core great hifhes: this way they take Sturgeon 5 and in dark evenings when they areupon the fifh- ing ground near a Bar of Sand ( where the Sturgeon feeds upon {mall fihes ( like Eals ) that are called Lances fucking them out of the Sands where they lye hid, with their hollow Trunks, for other mouth they have none) the Indian lights a piece of dry Birch- - Bark which breaks out into a flame & holds it over the fideof his Canow, the Sturgeon — - feeing this glaring light mounts to the Sur- face of the water where he is flain and taken witha filgig. Salmons and Lampres are (142 } ate catch’d at the falls of Rivers. All the Rivers of note in the Countrey have two or three defperate falls diflant one from a= nother for fome miles, for it being rifing ground from the Sea. sadino ita: with- in land, the Rivers having their Originals from great lakes, and halining to the Sea, in their paffage meeting with Rocks that | are not fo cafily worn away, as the loofe earthie mould beneath the Rock, makes a fall of the water in fome Rivers as high as a houfe ; you would think it firange to fee; yeasdmire if you faw the bold Barbarians in their Jight Canows ruth down, the {wift. and headloog fiream with defperate fpeed, but with excellent dexterity, guiding his Canow that feldom or never it fhoots under water Or Overturns, if. ic do they can fwim naturally, {triking their pawes under their throat like a dog, and not fpreading their Arms as we do 3 they curn their Canow gs. gain and go into it in the water. Their Merchandize are their beads , alsieh are their money ,of thefe there are two forts, blew Beads and white Beads, the firft 1s their Gold, the laft their Silver, thef: they work out of certain fhells fo cunning- ly that neither few nor Devil can counter- feit, they drift them and ne them, and make many cLIFIONS en withthem to a- dorn| Ci -dorn the perfons of their, Sagamours and principal men and young women, as Belts, Girdles, Tablets, Borders for their womens hair, Bracelets, Necklaces, and links to hang in their ears. Prince Phillip alittle | before I came for England coming to Bofton — _ had a Coat on and Buskins fee thick with. thele Beads in pleafant wild works and a broad Belt of the fame, his Accoutrements were valued at Twenty pounds. Fhe Eng- lifh Merchant giveth them ten fhillings a fathom for their white,and 2s much more. or near upon for their blew Beads. Delicate {weet difhes too they make of Birch-Bark fowed with threads drawn from Sprufe or white Cedar-Roots , and garnifhed on the out-fide with flourifhe works, and on the brims with gliftering quills taken from the Porcupine, and dyed,fome black, others red, the white are natural, thefe they make of all fizes from a dram cup toa difk contain- ing a pottle, likewife Buckets to carry wa- tex or the like, large Boxes too of the fame materials, difhes, fpoons and trayes wroughe very {mooth and neatly out of the knots of — wood, baskets, bags, and matts woven with Sparke, bark of the Line-Iree and Rujhes of fevexal kinds,dyed as before, fome black, blew,red, yellow, bags of Porcupine quills woven and dyed alfo,; Coats woven of 7 i Turkie— (144) ‘Turkie-feathers for their Children, Tobacea pipes of ftone with Imagerie upon them, Kettles of Birchen-bark which they ufed — before they traded with the French for Copper Kettles, by all which you may ap- — parently fee that neceflity was at firft the mother of all inventions. The women are the workers of moft of thee, andlare now, here and there one excellent needle woman, and will milk a Cow neatly, their richeft _ trade are Furs of divers forts, Black Fox, Beaver, Otter, Bear, Sables, Mattrices, Fox, . Wild-Cat, Rattoons, Martins , Mufquafh , Moofe-skins. | | Ships they have none, but do prettily - Imitate ours in their Birchen-pinnaces, their Canows axe made of Birch, they thape them with flat Ribbs of white Cedar, and cover them with large fheets of Bireb-bark, fow-— ing them through with firong threds of Sprufe-Roots ox white Cedar, and pitch them witha mixture of Turpentine and the hard rofen that is dryed with the Air onthe out- _ fide of the Bark of Firr-Trees. Thefe will. carry half a dozen or three or four men and a confiderable fraiglit , in thefe they {wim to Sea tweaty,nay forty miles, keeping from the (hore a league or two, fometimes to fhorten their voyage when they are to- -double.a Cape they will put to fhore, and | | ive (145) two of them taking up the Canew carry it — crofs the Cape or neck of land to the other = fide,and to Sea again ; they will indure an incredible. great Sea, mounting upon the working billowes like apiece of Corke 3 but they require skilful hands to guide them in rough weather, none but the Indz- ans {carce dare to undertake it, fuch like Veffels the Ancient Brittains uled, as’ Lwean relates. ‘2 a : Primum cana falix, madefato vimine, par- vam : Téxitur in puppim , cefoqueinduta juvenco, Vekloris patiens tumidum faper emicat am ACMe = ? , Sic Venetus flagnante Pado, fufoque Brita- nus | | | | | Navigat ocean—= When Sicoris to bis own banks reftor'd Had lef? she field, of twigs, and willow boord They made fmall Boats, cover’d witb werd 53 a ide, In which shey reacht the Rivers further fide. So fail the Veneti if Padus flow, = ‘The Brittains fail on thezr calm ocean fo: _Sothe A:gyptians fail with woven Boats Of paper rufbes insheir Nilus Floats. | CS et a 146 ) “Their Government is ‘inaveadan? he Patrucius or they that defeend from the | eldett proceeding from his loyns, is the Roytelet of the Tribe, and if he have | Daughters, his Son dying without a Son,” - the Government defcends to his Daughters Son: after the fame manner, their lands — defcend. Cheetadaback was the chief Sachem or Royrelee of the Maffacbufers, when the Englife tirtt {ec down there. Maffafoit, the’ great Sachem of the Plimouth Indians, his dwelling was ata place called Sowans, about four miles diftant from Nes-Plimouth.Safae facus was the chief Sachem of the Pequcts, and Mientoniack, of the Narraganfets. The’ chief, Roytelet amongft the Mobawks now living, isa Datchmanys Baltard, and the Roy telee now of the, Pocanakets, that 15 the — Plimouth- Indians, 1 is Prince Philip alias Me- gacon, the Grandfon of Maffafoit. Amongft the Eaftern Indims, Summerfant formerly was.:a famous Sachem. The, now living Sa- chems of note are Sabaccaman, Téneaaniken and Robinhood. -.. Their Wars care. with: "Neighbouring Tribes, but the Mowhawks are enemics to. all tke other Indians, their weapons of De- fence and Offence are Bowes and Arrowes, of late heis a poor Indian that 15 not ma- | fier (147). fier of two Guns, which they purchafe of the Frescb, and powder. and thot, they are _ generally excellent marks men’; their other weapons are Tamabawks which are ftaves two foot and ahalf long with a knob at. the end as roullimas abowl, and as big as that we call che the Jack or Miftrifs. Lances too. they have made (as Thave faid before) with broken fword blades, likewife they have. Hatchets and Knives ; but thefe are weapons of a latter date. They colour their faces red all over, fuppofing that it makes them the more terrible, they are lufty Soul- diers to fee to and very itrong,meer Hercules Rufticufes, their fights ate by Ambufhments — and. Surpnfes, coming upon one another unawares. They will march a hundred © miles through thick woods and fwamps to the Mowhawks Countrey, and the Mow- bamks into their Countrey, meeting fome- timesin the woods, or when they come in- to an Enemies Countrey build a rude fore with Pallizadoes, having loop-holes out of. which they fhoot their Arrowes, and fire their Guns,pelting at one another a week or moneth together 5 If any of them ftep out of the Fort they ate in danger to be taken prifoners by the one fide or the other; tha¢ fide that gets the victory excoriats the hair- ae of the principal flain Enemics which | L 2 ie 9, 148) ma they bear away in Triumph, their prifoners they bring home, the old men and women they knock in the head, the young women _ they keep, and the men of war they torture fo death, as the Eaftern dgdians did two Mowbawks. whilft I was timc, they bind him toa Tree and,make a great fire before | him, then with fharp knives they cut off | the firft joynts of his fingers and toes, then cap upon them hot Embers to fear the —vains ; fo they cut him a pieces joynt after joyor, ftill applying hot Embers to the place to fianch the bloud’, making’ the poor _ wretch to fing all the while:when Arms and Legs are gone, they ficy off. the skin of their Heads, and préfently put on a Cap of burning Embers, then they open’ his breatt and take out his heart, which while itis yet living ina manner they give to their old _ Squaes, who are every ome to have a bite at it. “Thefe Barbarous Cufioms were ufed among{tthem more frequently before the Englifb camic 5 but fince by the great mercy — of the Almighty they are in a way tobe Civilized and converted to Chriftianity; there being three Churches of Indians ga- thered together by the pains of Mr. Jobe Eliot and his Son, who Preaches to them 10. their Native language, and hath rendered the Bible in that Language for the benefit @ i i the Se (49) - the Indians. Thefe g go clothed like the Eug- lity, live in framed houfes, have flocks “of Corn and Cattle about them, which when ~ _ they are fat they bring to the: Englifh Mar- ~ kets, the Hogs that they rear are counted - the beftin New-England. Some of their “Soris have beea brought up Scholars’ in Harvard Colledge, and I was told that there was but two Fellowes in that Colledge, and one of them was an Indiax 3 fome few of thefe Chriftian Indians have of late Apo- {tatized and fallen back to their old eo 8 ftition and courfe of life. Thus much fhall fuffice concerning, New - _ England, as it was' when the Indians folely --poffeft it. I will now proceed to give you an accompt of it, asit is under the manage- ~ment-of the Exglifp ; but methinks I hear my {ceptick Readers muttering out of their ~. {cuttle mouths, what will accrew tous by _ this rambling Logodiarce? you do but bring firaw inte Egypt, a Countrey abounding — ~ with Corn. Thus by thefe Famacides who are fo minutely curious, Iam dejeted from my hope, whillt they,challenge the freedom of David’s Rufins, Our Tongues are our ~- @wn, whofhall controll us. & have dene - what I can to pleafe you, Phave piped and you will not dance. I have teld you as ftrange things asever you or your Fathers ; i; 3 have & (150) ‘ ce oe The Lalian faith Chi Behe sr: miraculo facilmewte ne.crede un altro, he that hath {een one miracle will ceafilie believe | ‘another, ‘miranda canunt fed non credenda pote. Obl {ee. the pad,you never heard nor - faw-the like, therefore you do not believe me ;- well Sirs I fhall not firain your, belicf any further, the following Relation I hope ) will be more. tolerable , yet I could ( it is poffible ) infere,as wonderful things as any _ My pen hath yet gone over, and may, but — it muft be upon condition you will not put me ‘tothe proof of it. Nemo tenetur ad impoffibilia, n no man.is obliged to do. more _than is in his power, isa rule in law. To be — hort; if you cannot with the Bee gather the | honey, withthe Spiderfuck out the bieiows asSir fobs Davishathi. ) The Bee and Spider by a | divers rd ) 5 packs eee and sale bre the felf-fame _ flower. | a1. am - conGaiae you will get but little peat here, mo 7tis the poyfon of Afps under. your tongue that fwells you : truly, I + do take you rather to be Spider catchers . than Spiders, fach as will not laudably im- . ploy: themtelves 5 nor fuffer others; you — amy well fay on amg bominem, fed non por, fam | ( 151) fum dicere. quare, unlefs it be. becaufe Iam ‘a Veroncfla, noRomancer, To conclude 5 “af with your mother wit, you can mend “the matter, take pen in hand and fall to — “work, do your Countrey fome fervice as I “have done according to my. Talent. Hence- - forth you axe to expect no more Relations ‘from me. Tam now seturn’d: into my ~ Native Countrey, and by the providence of the Almighty, and the bounty of my Royal Sovcraignefsam difpofed to a holy quiet of fiudy and meditation for the good of my’ fouls and being bleffed with a tranfmentita= tionor change of mind, and weaned from the world, may take up for my word, #02 "eft mortale quod opto. If whati have donc. is thought uprears for the approvement of ~ thofe to whom it is intended, 1 thall be more than meanly contented. — tie as _. New-England was firft difcovered by ’ Fobn Cabota snd his Son Stbaftian in Anna Dom. 1514. Afurthendifcovery alierwards was made by. the honourable Sir [Valter Rawleigh Knight in Anno 1584.when ss Vir- ginia was difcovered, which together. with Mary-land, New-England, Nova Scotia was known byone common name to the Indians, Wingandicoa, and by Sir Walter Ranltigh in honour of our Virgin Queen, in whote n.m= he took poff fioi of 1, Varginta. In ss fo Be King e, rs <> C152). "King James his Reign it was divided into. Provinces as is before named.In 3602. thefe north parts were further difcovered by Capt. Bartholomew Gofnold. The firlt Exglifh that planted there,fet down not far from the Narraganfets-Bay, and called their Colony Plimouth,fince old Plimouth, An. Dom.16026 Sir Fobn Popham Loud chief Juftice autho- _xized by his Majefty, King Fames, fent a Colony of Exglith to Sagadebock, An 1606. Newfound-land was difcovered by one Aux- drew Thorn an Englith man in Anno 1527. Sic Humphrey Gilbert a weft Countrcey Knight took poffeflion of it in the Queens mame, Anno 1582. The two firft Colonies in New- England tailing, there was a freth fupply of Englifh who fet down in other parts of the Countrey, and haye continued in aflourifhing, condition to this day. _ The whole Countrey now ‘s divided in- ~ =_— _ to Colonies, and for your better underftand-_ ing obferve, a Cofony is afort of people that come to inhabit a place before not in- habited, or Colonus quafi, becaufe they fhould be Tillers of the Earth, From hence by an ufual figure the Countrey where they fit - -_ down,is called a Colony or Plantation. — ~The firft of thefe that I fhall relate of, = though laft in poffi ffion of the Englifh, 3s ‘mow our molt Southerly Colony, and next ee au (153) = | adjoyning to Mary-land, feil. the Manad ies or Manabanent lying upon the great R.ver \ Mobegan,w hich was firft difcovered by Mr. ) Hadj, and fold prefently by him to the © _ Dutch without Authority from his Sove-— -raign the King of England, Anno 1608. — _ The Dutch in 1614 began to'plant there,and call’d it New-Netherlexds, but Sir Samuel _ Argal Governour of Virginia routed them, the Dutch after this got leave of King Fames = to put in there for froth water in their paf- fage to Brafile, and did not offer to plant . until a good while after the Englifh were fettled inthe Countrey. In Anno 1664 his Majeftic Charles the Second {ent over four worthie Gentlemen Commiflioners to xc- duce the Colonies into their bounds, who had before incroached upon one another, who marching with Fhree hundred red- _ Coats to Manadaes ox Manhataes took from the Dutch their chief town then called. New-Amfterdamnow New Yorksthe Twenty ninth of Azgs/t turn’d out their Governour — - witha filver leg, and all butthofe chat were willing to acknowledge fubjcGion to the King of Exgland,{uffering them to enjoy — their houfes and eftates as before. Thirteen days after Sir Robert Carr took the Fort and Town of Azravia now called Albany 5 and - Twelve days atter that, the Fort and Town of (154) | of Aofapha, then De-la-ware Caftle, man’d -. with Dutch and Sweeds.So now the Engli, are mafters of three handfome Towns , three fttong Forts and a Caftle, not lofing - one man. The firh Governour | of thefe parts forthe King of England. was Colonel _ ) Niécols, a noble Gentleman, and one of his - Majefties Commiffioners, who coming for England in Anno Doms 1668 as Ltake: it, furrendered.. the Government. to Colonel Longlate. "Phe Countrey nea is bleff “4 with ae riche fol in all New- England, [ have heard - it reported from men of Judgement and: oda , that one Buthel of European- _. Wheat hath yiclded.a hundred in one year. Theis other Commodities are Furs, and the bk: | New- Lok is fituated at the mouth of the great River Mohegan, and is built with - Dutch Brick alls-moderna, the meaneft houfe therein being. valued at One. hundred pounds, to the Landward ic is compaffed with a Wall of good thicknefs; at the en-— _. tance of the River is an Hund well fortifi- . ed, and hath command of any Ship that thall attempt to pais without their leave, Albany is fituated upon the fame River | on the Welt-fide, and is due Ripe from New-Iork, fomewhat above Eilty miles. pe 2 A Along the Sea-fide Eaftward are many Englifo-Towns, as firft Wejtchefter, a Sea- - “Town about Twenty miles from New- York; to the Eaftward of chis is Greenwich, ano- — ther Sea-Town much about the fame di- ‘fiance 3 then Chichefter, Fairfield, Stratford, ‘Milford, allSea-Towns twenty and thirty “mile diftant from one another, twenty miles “Eaftward of Milford is Newhaven the Me- tropolis of the Colony begun in 1637. One Mr. Eaton being there Govesnour: it 1s near to the fhoals of Cape-Cod, and is one of the — four united Colonies. — | The next Sea-Town Eafiward of New- haven is called Guilford about ten thile, and I think belonging to that Colony. From Guilford to Connecticut-River , is near upon twenty miles, the frefh River Connetticnt bears the name of another Colo- ny begun in the year 1636 and is allo one of the four united Colonies. Upon this. River are firuated 13 Towns , within two, three & four miles off one another. At the mouth of the’River , on the Weft-iide is the Lord- Say, and Brooks fort, called Saybrook: fore. Beyond this Northward is the Town of Windfir, then Northampton, then Pinfers- houfe. On the Eaftfide of the River, Hart- ford, about it low land well flored with ‘meadow and very fertile. Wethersfield is 3 | alfo (156 alfo fituated upon Conneéticnt River and Springfield, but this Town alt ouga here feated, isin the jurifdi@ion of the Matta- . : alas, and hath been infamous by reafon of Witches therein. Hadley lyes to. the North- ward of Springficld. New- London which I take to be in the jurifdi@ion of this Colo- ney is fituated tothe Eaftward of Conne- éicut-River by a {mall River, and is not far from the Sea. From Connellicge River long Fffind (tretcheth it felf to Mobegan one hundred and twenty miles, but it is but marrow and about fixteen miles from the -. t®ain 5 the confiderableft Town upon it is Southampton built on the Southfide of the Ifland towards the Eaftern end : oppofite to thison the Northernfide is Feverfuam, Welt- Ww . is Ajbford , Huntingdon 5 05. Ene Hland 1 is well ftored with Sheep and other _. Cattle, and Corn, and is reafonable popu- ~*~ lous. Between this Hland and the mouth of _ Conncdicut-River lyeth three {mall Iflands, Shelter-Iflind, Fifbers-Ifland, and the Mle of Wibt. Over againlt Nem-Layiday full South =" tyeth Block. dfland. 7? The next place of note on the Main is | Narraganfets-Bay , within which Bay is Rbode-Iftand a Harbour for the Shunamitifh — Brethren, as the Saints Errant, the Q takers who are rather to be elicemed Vagabonds, | than oe wees OG 2 ae (ASPX) At the further end of the Bay by the mouth of Narrcganfets-River, on. the — South-fide thereof was. old Plimenth planta- tion Anno 1602. Twenty mile out to Sea, South of Ribode-Tfland, \yeth Martins vine- yard in the way to Virginia, this [lands - governed by a difcreet Gentleman Mr. Mayhew by name.To the Eaftward of Mar- tin’s, vinyard lyeth Nuntocket-Ifland, and further Eafiward Elizabeths-Ifland , thefe ‘“Hlandsare twenty or thirty mile afunder,, and now ‘ve acecome toCape-Cod. > Cape-God was fo called at the fir by: — Captain Gofnold and his Company Aano Dom. 1602, becaufe they took much of that fith there; andafterward was called Cape- Fames by Captain Smith: the point of the Cape is called Point-Cave and Tuckers Terror, — and by the French and Dxich Mallacar, by - ~ reafon of the perillous fhoals.The farft place to betaken notice of on the South-fide of the Cape is Wefts-Harbour, the firft Sea- Town Sandwich formerly called Daxbury ~ in the Jurifdi@tion of New-Plimouth.Doub- ling the Cape we come into the gieat Bay, onthe Welt whereof is New-Plimouth-Bay, On the Southweft-end of this Bay is firua- ted New Plimouth, the firlt Englifh-Colony that cook firm poffeflion in this Countrey, — which was in 1620,and the fir Town buile - | there. ms veer ) therein, whofe longitude is-315 degrees, in latitude 41 degrees and 37 minutes, it was built nine years before any other Town, from the beginning of it to 1669 is jult forty years, in which time there hath been an increafing of forty Churches. un this Co-. Jony ( but’ many more in the. reft, ) and. Towns in all New-England one hundred and twenty, for the moft part along the _Sea-Coafts , ( as. being wholfomeft ) for fomewhat more than two hundred miles: onely on Conaelicut-River ( as Lhave faid ). is thirteen Towns not far off one another. The other Towns of note in this Colony are Green-Harbour to the Faftward of Pii- moutbtowards the point of the Cape,& there- fore {omewhat unacceffible by land, here is excellent Timber for thipping; then Marfh-. field, Yarmouth, Rehoboth, Bridgwater, War- wick, Taunton, Eaftham,by the Indians called Namfet. | om nhs ‘ The firft Town Northeaft from Green- barbor is Sittwate in the jurifdiction of the | Mattachufets-Colony, more Northward of Sittuate is Concbuffet and Hull a little Burg lying open to the Sea, from thence we came to Mertou-point over again{t which is Pallin- potnt. Upon Merton-point ( which is on the Larboard-fide ) isa Town called Nantzafcot, which is two Leagues from Bofton, where | 7 \ Ships | ; eB Ships commonly caft Anchor. Pullin-poiat is fo called, becaufe the Boats are by the feafing or Roads haled againft the Tide which is very ftrong, it is the ufual Chanacl for Boats to pals into Masiachufets- Bay. There is an Ifland on the South-fide of: é the -paffage ‘containing eight Acres of ground.Upon arifing hill within this Mand | is mounted ‘a Caftle commanding the en- trance, no ftately Edifice, nor ftrong ; buile with Brick and Stone, kept by a Captain, under whom js a maftex-Gunner and others. The Bay is large, made by many Iflands, the chief Deere-Iland, which is within a flight thot of Pullin-poine , great ftore of Deere were wont tofwim thither from the’ Main; then Bird-Iland, Glafs-Mland, Slate~ Ifland, the Governours Garden, where the’ firft Apple-Trees in the Countrey’ were’ planted, and a vinyard 5 then Roznd-Mland, and Noddles-Hland not far from Charles- — Town ; moft of thefe Mlands lye on «the North-fide of the Bay. ae , The next Town to Nantafeoe on the — South-fide of the Bay is Wiffagufer a {aiall Village, about three miles from Mosne- wollen, about this Town the foil is very fertile. | | pESES Within fight of this is Mount-wollcfton of © . Merry-mount, called Maffachufers-fields , i | ~ where (160) where Chicatabat the greatett Sagamore of the Countrey lived before the plague ; here the Town of Braintree is feated, no Boat mor Ship can come near fo it, hese isan Kron mill: to the Weft of this Town is Naponfet-Rivers _ | Six miles beyond Rosiuerce lyeth Dor- chefter, afrontire Town pleafantly feated,. and of large extent into the main land, | well watered with two {mall Rivers, her body and wings filled fomewhat thick with houfes to the number of two hurdred and more, beautified with fair Orchards and Gardens, having alfo plenty of Corn- land, and ftore of Cattle, counted the great- ‘eft Town heretofore in New- England, but now gives way to Bofton, it hath a Harbour — tothe Northfor Ships. — . A mile from Dorchefter is the Toms. of Roxbury, a fair and handfome Countrey Town, the fireets large, the Inhabitants rich, replenifhed with Orchards and Gar- | dens, well watered with {prings and {mall frefhets,a brook runs throughit called Smelt- River, a quarter of a mile to the No:th- fide of the Town runs ftony-River: it is feated in the bottom of a thallow Bay, but hath no harbour for thipping. Boats come to it, it hath ftore of Land and Cattle. — | Two miles Northeaft from Roxbury, and — = (161 ) | Forty miles from New-Plimonih,in the la- titude of 42 or 43 degrees and 16 minutes, — inthe bottom of Maffachufers-Bay is Bofton _¢ whofe longitude is 31§ degrees, or as o- thers wall 322 degrees and 30 feconds. ) So Called ftom a Town in Lincolnfbhire , which in the Saxons time bare the name of Str. Botolpb, and is the Metropolis of this Co- lony, or rather of the whole Countrey , fituated upon a Peninfula, about four milesin compafs, almott {qQuare, and invi- roned with the Sea, faving oné fall [thymus which gives accefsto other Towns by land - on the South. fide. The Town hath two hills of equal height on the frontire part thereof next the Sea, the one well fortified on the _fuperficies with fome Artillery mounted , commanding any Ship as the fails into the Harbour within the fill Bay; the other hill hatha very ftrong battery buile of whole - Timber and fill’d with earth, at the defcene of the hillinthe extreameft part thereof, betwixt thefe two ftrong Arms; lyes a large Cove or Bay, on which the chiefeft part of the Town is built, to the Northweft isa high mountain that out-tops all, with its three little rifing hills on the fummit called Tramount, this is furnifhed with a Beacon and great Guns; from hence you may over- | jah -. look (162 )- look all the Ifands in the Bay,’ and defery > fuch Ships as are upon the Coaft 3. the houfes are for the moft part raifed on the Sea-banks and wharfed out with great in- dufiry and coft, many of them fianding up- on piles, clofe together on each fide the fireets as in London, and (urnifhed with ma- ny fair thops, their materials are Brick, Stone, Lime, handfomely contrived, with three. meeting: Houfles or Churches, ‘and a Town-houfe built upon pillars where the Merchants may confer, in the Chambers a- bove they keep their monethly Courts. Their fireets are many and large, paved with pebble ftone,and che South-fide adorn- 2 ed. with Gardens and Orchards. The Town is rich and very populous, much frequented — by ftrangers, here is the dwelling of their Governour. On the North-welt and North- eaft two conftant Fairs are kept for daily Traffick thereunto. On the South there is a ~ {mall, but pleafant Common where the Gal- . -lants a little before Sun-fet walk with their Marmalet-Madams, as we do in Morefields,. &c, till the nine a clock Bell rings them home to their refpeGtive habitations, when | - prefently the Conftables walk their. ‘rounds to. fee good orders kept, and to take up. loofe people. Two miles from the town, exis * at (163) at a place called Muddy-River, the Inhabi- tants have Farms, to which belong sich a- — rable grounds and meadows where they. - Keep their Cattle inthe Summer, and bring them to Boffon in the Winter 5 the Harbour before the ‘Town is filled with Ships and other Vcffels for moft part of the year. — _. Hingham is a Town. fituated upon the S¢a-coatis, South-ceaft of Ch zrles-River here is great {tore of Timber, deal- boards, mafis . for Ships, white-Cedar; and fifh is here to— be had. Boa Sie ee a Dedham an inland-town ten miles fromBoffon - inthe County of Szffolk well watered with - many pleafant ftreams,and abounding with Garden fruit; the Inhabitants are Husband- men, fomewhat more than one hundred Families, having ftore of Cattle and Corn. _ The Fown of Waymoxnth lyes open'to _ the Sea; on the Eaft Rocks and Swamps, to the South-ward good ftore of Deer, arable land and meadows. = gees . On the North-fide of Bofton ows Charles= River, which 1s abowt fix fathom deep, many {mall Hflands lye to the Bayward, and hills on either fide the River, a very good harbour, here may forty Ships ride, _ the paflage from Bolton to Charles-Town is by a Ferry worth forty or fifty pounds a rae M 2 year, (164) yeas, and is a quarter of amile over. The _ River Méftick runs through the right fide of ‘the Town, and by its near approach to Charles-River in one. place m:Kes a very narrow neck, where fiands moft part of | the Town, the Market-place not far from the waterlide is {urrounded with houfes, » forth of which iffue two fireets orderly built and beautified with Orchards and Gardens, their meeting-houfe ftands on the North- fide. of the*market, having a litle - hill behind its there belongs to this. Town one thoufand and two hundred Acres of arable , four. hundred. head of Cattle, and as many Sheep, thefe alfo. provide: -them- felves Farmsinthe Country. = ' Up higherin Charles-River welt-ward is a broad Bay two miles over, into which ~ suns Stony River and Muddy-River. Towards the South-wett in the middle of the Bay isa great Oylter. bank, towards | the North-weft is a Creeks upon the fhore is fiiuated the village of Medford, itis a mile _ and half from Charles-tomn. _At the bottom of the Bay the River be- gins to be narrower, half a quanter of a mile broad; by the North-fide ot the River 1s New- town, three miles from Charles-town, “% league and halt by water, ic was firlt in- | ten- ‘ Cee | tended for a City, the neatef and beft com. pacted Town, having many fair fru@ures and handfom contrived ftreets; the Inha- bicants rich, they have many hundred Acres of land paled with one common fence a _ mile and half Jong, and ftore of Cattle ; ic _ isnow called Cambridge where is a Colledg for Students of late; it ftretcheth from — Charles-River to the Southern part of Merrimach-River. — SS Halt amile thence on the fame fide of the Rvier is ater-town built upon one of the branches of Charles-River, very fruitful and of large extent, watered with many - pleafant {prings and {mall Rivulets, the ‘Inhabitants live fcatteringly. Within half a mile isa great pond divided between the two Towns, a mile and half from the Townis a fall of frefh waters which con- _ veigh themfelves into the Ocean through Charles-River, a little below the fall of waters they havea wair to catch hth, where- in they take ftore of Baffe, Shades, Alwives, Froft fifo and Smelts, mm two tides they have gotten one hundred thoufand of thefe hfhes. They have ftore of Cattle and Sheep, and near upon two thoufand Acres of a- rable land , Ships of fmall burden may ‘come up to thefe Towns. = M 3 We (166) a We: will, now. ‘return (0 Charlestown | again, where the River Miftick runs on the North-fide of the Town (that is the right - fide as beforefaid ) where . onthe Northweft- fide of the River. is the Town of Miftick , three miles from. ,Charles-town , a league and half by water, a (catered village ; at the head. of this River are great and {paci- ous ponds, full of Alemives in the {pring- time, the notedft place for this fort of fith, — On. the Weft of this River is M-rchant Graddock’s plantation, where he impaled al _ park. _» Upon the {ame River and on | the ae fi de isthe Town of Malden. , : The next Town is Winnifimet a nile from Charles-town, the River only parting them, this is the laft Town in the ftill bay of Maffacbufets: Without Pullin-point, fix. miles North-. eat from Winnifimet is Cawguft, or Saguft, or Sangut now called Linn , fituated at the bottom of a Bay near a River, which upon the breaking. up of winter with a furious — - Torrent vents it felf into the Sea , the - Town confifts'of more than one hundred | dwelling-houfes, their Church being buile on a level undefended from the North- | | welt wind is made with fteps defcending | | ‘in- (167) into the Earth, theit fiteets are firaight and but thin of houfes, the people moft hot bandmen. At the end of the Santy beach is aneck of land called Nabant, it is fix miles in circumference. Black Wiliam an Indian Duke out of his generofity gave this to the Engli. At the’ mouth of the River runs a great Creek into a great marth called. Rumney. ‘marth, which. is four miles long, and a mile broad, this Town hath the benefit of minerals of divers kinds, Iron, Lead, | ene Iron mill, ftore of Cattle, Arable land : and meadow. -» Tothe North-ward of Linn is Marvil or Marble-head, a {mall Harbour, the fhore rockie,upon which the Town is built, con- fitting of afew {cattered houfes 5 here they have fiages for fithermen , Orchards and Gardens, half a mile within land good Pa flures and Arable land. Four miles North ‘of Marble-bead is fie tuated New-Salem ( whole longitude is 315 degrees , and latitude 42 degrees 35 mix — Routes) upon a plain, having a River on the South, and another on the North, it hath two Harbours, Winter Harbour and Sum- mer Harbour which lyeth within Darbie’s fort , - they have ftore of Meadow and i Arable , in this Town are fome very rich | Merchants. 5) Mea -2- — Epon (168) Upon the Northern Cape of the Maffs> - ebufets, that is Cape-Aus a place of fithng - is fituated , the Town of Gloefter where — the Maffachufers Colony firft {ct down, but Salem was the firft Town builtin that Cow Jony, here is a Harbour for Ships. ‘Fo the North-ward of Capc-Aan is Wona{quam, a dangerous place to fail by in ftormie weather, by reafon of «the many Rocksand.foamingbreakers. The next Town that prefents it felf to view is Ipfwich fuuated by a fair River, whofe firft rife is from a Lake or Pond twenty mile up, betaking its courfe through a hideous Swamp for many miles, a Harbour for Bears, it iffueth forthinto a large Bayy - ( where they fith for Whales ) due Eaft over againft the Hlands of Sholes a great place of fifhing, the mouth of chat River is barr’d; it is a good haven-town, their mecting- houfe or Church is beautifully built, fore of Orchards and Gardens, land for huf-— bandry and Cattle. eo eee Wenham is an inland Town very well watered , lying between Salem and Ip{wich, confifteth moft of men of judgment and experience in re ruftica, well ftored with Cattle. Ae the firft rife of Ipfwich- River in the highet part of the land near the head et a : Springs (169 ) Aprings of many confiderable Rivers 5; Sha- . fbin one of the moft confiderable branches of Merrimach- River, and alfo at the rife of Miffick: River, and ponds full of pleafant - Aprings, is fituated. Wooburs an inland- Town four miles fquare beginning at the end of Charles-town bounds. _ Six miles from Ipfwich North-eaft is Rowley, moft of the Inhabitants have been - Clothiers. | | : Nine miles from Salem to the North is - Agowamine, the beft and fpacioufeft place for a plantation, being twenty leagues to the Northward of New-Plimout). | Beyond Agowamin is fituated Hampton _ near the Sca-coafts not far from Merrimach~ _ River, this Town'is like a Flower-deluce, having two fircets of houfes wheeling off "from the main body thereof, they have great ftore of falt Matfhes and Cattle, the land is fertil, but full of Swamps and Rocks. - : : | - Eight miles beyond Agowamia runneth the delightful River Merrimach or Monu- mach, it 1s navigable for twenty miles, and well ftored with fifh, upon the banks grow’ | ftately Oaks, excellent Ship timber, notin- feriour to our Englifh. . | On the South-fide of Merrimach-River | twelve (170). ewelve miles from Ipfwich, and near ‘upon the wide venting fireams thereof is fitug. ted Newberrie, the houfes are fcattering, well fiored. with meadow, upland, and Arable , and. about four hundred head’ of Cattle, 2cf435 ' Over againit Newbie sie leak the. Town of Salisbury,where a conttant Ferry is kept, the River being here half a mile broad, the - Eown tcatteringly built. Hard upon, the River of Shahin whére Merrimach receives. this. and the other branch into its body,is feated Andsver, fio- ved with land and Cattle. | Beyond this Town by. the:. branch of Mert imach-River called Shafhin, lyeth Has: verbill, a Town of. large extent*about ten miles in length, the inhabitants Husband- men, this Fowni is not far from Salisbury. Over againfk Haverhill lycth the Towm of Malden, which I have already. mention- = ed. In a low Lovet upon. a frefh- River a ret se ‘heanch of Merrimachis feated Concord. the: firft inland Town in M. affachufets patent, : well ftored with fith, Salmon, Dace, Ale~ mive, Shade, Kc. abundance of frefh marth and Cattle, this ab is yr ape to tees — Gonms. | The —Ca7r) | The next Town is Sudbury built upon. the fame River where Concord is, butfurther — ups tothis Town likewile belongs great fore of freth marfhes ; and Arable land, * and they have many Cattle, ic lyeth low,by reafon whereof it is much indammaged with:floudss =." s Sars Ax ype: In the Centre of the Countrey by a great pond fide, and not far from Woeburn, is fi- tuated Reading, it hath two mills, a faw- mill and a Corr-mill,; and is well ftocke | with Cattle. Ron ae : | The Colony is divided into four Coun- ties, the firft is Suffolk, to which belongs - Dorchefter, Roxbury, Waymouth , Hingham, “Dedham, Braintre, Sittuate, Hull, Nantafcor, - Wifaguffet. The fecond County is Mid- -dlefex, to this belongs Charles-town, Water- town, Cambridge,Concora, Sudbury,Woebura, Reading, Malden, Mifticky Medford, Winnifi- met and Marble-bead. To the third Cour- ty which is Effex , ‘belongs Nen-Salem, Linn, Ipfwich, New-Berry, Rowley, Glocefter, Wenham and Andover. The fourth County is Northfolk, to this belongs Salisbury, Hampton and Haverhill. ee Inthe year of our, Lord 1628, Mr. Foba Endieot with a number of Englifh people ~ fet down by Capc-Aun at that place called Lair | al~ afterwards Glofter , but their abiding-place _ was at Salem, where they built a Town in 1639. and there they gathered their firft Church, confifting but of Seventy perfons; _ but afterwards increafed to forty three: Churches in joyne. Communion with one © another, and in thofe Churches were about’ Seven thouland, feven hundred and fifty | ' Souls, Mr. Endicot was chofen their fir Governour. Ree cae ere The Twelfth of Fuly Anno Dom. 1630. Fobn Wentborp E(g; and the affifiants, arri- — ~ ved withthe Patent for the Muffebufets, the paffage of the people that came along / with him in ten Vcflels came to 95000 pound : the Swine, Goats , Sheep, Neat, Horfes coft to tranfport 12900 pound, b - frdes the price they coft them ; getting food for the people till they could. clear the ground of wood amounted to 45000 pound : Nails, Glafs, and other Iron work for their meeting and dwelling houfes 83000 pound ; Arms, Powder, Bullet, and | Maren, together with eheir Artillery 22000 pound, the whole fum amounts unto Oue— - hundred ninety ¢wo trouland pounds They fet down firft uponN ddle. -!flind,atterwards ‘they. began to build upon the main. In 1637+ there were not many houfes in the Town of | ne Sap ee | B: stom, es oe _ Bofton, amongft which were two houfes of _ _ entertainment called Ordinaries, into which if aftranger went, he was prefently follow- ed by one appointed to that Office, who would thrutt himfelf into hiscompany un- — invited, and if he called for more drink than the Officer thought in his judgment he _ could foberly bear away, he would prefently. countermand it, and appoint the proporti« on, beyond- which he could ‘not get one drop. pene EE SIE UE - The Patent was granted to Sir Heary Rofewell,Sir Fobn Young Knight, Thomas Southcoat, Fobn Humpbrey, Fobn Endicot and Simon Whitecomb, and to their Heirs, — _ Affigns, and Affciats for ever. Thefe took to them other Affociats, as Sir Richard Saltonftall, Ifaac Fobnfon, Samuel Alderfey, Fo. Vex, Matth. Craddock, George Harwood, Increafe Nowell, Rich. Perry, Rich. Belliag- ham, Nathaniel Wright, Samuel Vafell, Tbzs- _ philus Eaton, Thomas Goffe, Thomas Adams, Fo. Brown, Samuel Brown, Thomas Hutchins, Will Vafell, Will. Pinchon and George Foxcroft. ~ Matsth. Craddock was ordained and conttitu- ted Governour by Patent, and ‘bomas Goffe Deputy Governour of the faid Com- pany, the rett Affiftants. = That part of New-England granted to S< | | 4 thefe C174) thee fore-mentioned Gentlemen lyeth and — extendeth between a great River called - Monumach, alias Merrimach, and the often frequented Charles- River, being i in the bot- tom of a Bay called Maffachufets , alias Mattachufets,alias Maffatufets-bays and alfo thofe lands within the fpace of three Enge — | lifh miles, on the South part of the faid — Charles-River, or any or ¢very past, and all the lands within three miles to the South- ward part of the Ma(fachufets-bay, and all — thofe lands which ly¢ within the fpace of | three Englifp miles to the North-ward of the River Merrimach , or to the North. ~ ward of any and every paxt thereof, and alllands whatfoever within'the limits. afore: faid, North and South, in laticude, and in breadth and length and longitude of and within all the main land there , from the Atlantick and Weftern-Sea and. Ocean on the Eaft- part, to the South-Sea on the Weft- ve part, and alllands and grounds, place and . places, foils, woods and wood-groves , Havens, Ports, Rivers, Waters, fifhings, and Hereditaments whatfoever lying within the aforefaid lands and limits, and every part — and parcel thereof, and alfo all Iflands lying in America atorelaid in the faid Seas, or ei- | ther of them. on the Weltern or Eaftern “ Coalis | ( EBT : Coatts or parts of the faid traGs of lands. _Alfo all mines and minerals as _ well Royal of Gold, Silver, as others @&c. With power to rule ae govern both Sea and land, holden of the Eaft manner: of | Greeumsol in Com. Kent, in free and common foc- cage, yielding ‘and paying to the King the . fifth part of the Oar of Gold and Silver which fhall be found atany time. “This Colony i isva body, Corporated and. | 'Politick in fa@ by the name of the Gover- nour and Company of the NEMS: bayin New England. i -_‘That there fhall be one Cece and Deputy-Governour, and E:ghteen Affiftants of the fame Company from time to — | time. That the Governour and. Deputy Gover: nour, Affifiants and all other Officers to be chofenfrom amongft the freemen, the laft | - Wednefday in EBS IS aly in the gc~ neral court. i “The Governour to -take . his Corporii Oath to be true and faithful to the Goverr- ment, and togive the fame Oath to the c- | ther Officers. See : Ti is) ee To hold a Court once a month, and any -feven to be a fufficient Court. And that dhcie thall be four aa | - Courts Kept in Term time, and one great general and folemn Affembly to make Laws — and Ordinances ; So they be not contrary and repugnant to the Laws and Statutes of the Realm of England. Their form of Go-— vernment and what their Laws concern, you may fee in 1 the enfuing Table. 2! = | Their a. ae 2 - Governour. | fg Magi Sy | ee == go | ferates. << I Counters, a | & er of the wih Get S. - YCountrey. ie grjadgesS aS = oe each Town Iof the 2 for. their prote ; whole Coun- ion. — trey, 2 for their ‘provis : 2 of each {jOTe TheirLaws Concety Town,con- J x.their fands: A cerning. 2 their. Tréafure. I i The. s oS publick rz in their perfonal LT Civil Sate, or | Inheritances, and | & they ¢ 2 Parti- j propricties _ | Concern / cular per- : | fons. — T= EL OF | wg 2m | buying j | Whether £ 2 either | their | and fel« between \of Tref= 4 mutu { ling. } the mem- pes tal. or bers of come <4 2 Lends a their own )2 of {| merce, ;! ing and S s Common- / Capital | whe- bors = wealth &\, Crimes» | ther in | rowing? ta they are. Se) Be oe | . tI That we do them wrong 2 That they do. us wrong, F Arnot (178). “Anno Dom. 1646. they ten up a boily of their Laws for the well ordering, of their Commonwealth, -as phey,, not tong fince | termed it. ... ‘The military part of yin te Cotninbn: _ wealth is governed. by one Major-General, and three Serjeant Majors 3 to the Major- ‘General belohgeth particularly the Town “of Bofton, tothe three Serjeant Majors be- long the .four Counties, but with fub- _ thiffion to the Major-General. The firft Ser jeant Major chofen for the’ County of Suf- folk was Major Gibbens. For the County of “‘Middlefex Major Sedgwick. For the County of Effex and Norshfolk Major Denifot. = Every Town fends two Burgeffes to their ‘pret and foletan gencral Court. For being drank, they either whip or im-- “pofé a fine of Five thillingss-fo for {wearing and: curting, of boxing TRG the jongee | with ahotlron, |, | For kiffing a woman in ibe freer, , though in way of civil falute, whipping or a fine. _ For Single fornication WPipping or a aie “ndidigtie pa to death, and fo (or Wircheraft. | An Englifh woman fulfein > an Indian to _ have carnal knowledge of her, had an Andign cat out exactly in 1 red cloth fewed | upon C199)" upon her right Arm, and a orate toy weit it twelve moneths. : Scolds they gag md fet thein-a at Lahéie doors for certain hours, for all comers’ and goérs by to gazeat. Stealing is punithed with reRtoring’ fois fold if able if not,they are fold for fome ‘years, and fo are poor debtors; Tf you -defire a further infpection their Laws, I muft refer you fo them: bit ! in print, too many for: to ip inferted into this Relation: - The Governments of their Churches ate Independent and Presbyterial,every Church - (for fo they call their particular Congre= gations: .) have one Paftor, one Teacher, | Ruling Elders and Deacons. | _. © They that are members‘of eid Church? est have -the» Sacraments” adminifired to them, ‘the reft that’are out ofthe pale-as they. phrafe it, are denyed. it. Many hun. - dred Souls there’ be amongft them grown “upto men & womens aay that: ‘were never Chriftened. They judge every man and woman to _ pay Five fhillings per day, wlio eomes not to their Affemblies,- and’impofe fines. of forty fhillings and fifty fhillings on fuch as — Meet: sin agi toworfhip God. P 2 : Cue Quakers they whip, banith, and hang if they return again. Anabaptifts they” imprifon , , fine and weary Out. | The Government both Civil and Eecle- ES -fiaftical is in the hands of the thorow-pae’d Independents and rigid Presbyterians, = The grofe Goddons, or great mafters, as alfofome of theit Merchantsare damnable rich; generally all of their judgement ,. | inexplicably covetousand proud, they re- ceive your gifts but as an homage or tribute due to. their tranfcendency, whichis a faule their Clergie are alfo guilty of, whofe living » is.upon the bounty of their. hearers. On) Sundays in the afternoon when Sermonis. ended the people in the Galleries come — down and march two a breaft up one Ille and down the other, until they come before the desk, for Pulpit they have none : before the desk i is a long pue where the Elders and | Deacons fit, one of them with a mony box. in his hand, into which the people as they pafs put their offering, fomea fhilling, © fometwo fhillings, half a Crown, five thil- lings according to their ability ‘and good will, after this chey conclude with a Plalm; but this by the way. Te chicfett obj cts of difcipline, Riles: on, Be ee on, and morality they want, fome are of a Linfie-roolfie difpofition, of feveral profel- - fions in Religion, ali like Aebiopians white in the Teeth, only full of luditication and injurious dealing,amd cruelty the extreameRt - of all vices. The chiefeft caufe of Noab’s floud, Prov. 27.26. Agni erant ad veftitum tuum, is a frequent Text among them, no _ trading for a firanger with them, but with — ‘a Grecian faith, which is-not to pare with your ware without ready money, for they” are generally in their payments recufant and flow, great Syndies, or cenfors, or con- . trollers of other mens manners,and favagely - factious amongft themfelves, | = There are main travelling women too, Cin Salomon’s fence ) more the pitty, when _ awoman hath loft her Chaftity, the hathno -Moretolofe. = gi ay _ . But miftake me not to general fpeeches, mone but the guilty take exceptions, there are many fincere and ‘religious pecple _ amongftthem,defcryed by their charity and humility ( the true Chara@ers of Chrifli:-— nity ) by their Z:nodochie or hofpitaliry, by their hearty fubmiflion to their Scve- raign the King of Englazd, by their dili- gent and hone(t labour in their “callings , — amongft thefe we may account the Royalifix, _ - _ who are lookt upon with an_ evil eye and | ) P3.. * tongue, (182) tongue, boulted or punifhed if theychance —tolath out, the tame Indiax ( for ‘fo they call’ thofe that are’ bor in the Countrey ) are pretty honeit too, and may in good time be known for honeft Kings men. They have ftore of Children, and are yell accommodatéd with Servants; many hands make light work, many hands make — a full fraught, but many mouths eat up all , as fome old planters have experimented ; 5 0 thefé fomeare Englifh , others Negroes : of » the Englifh there are can eat till they {wear, and work till they freeze 5 & of the females that are like Mrs. Winters paddocks, very tender fingerd in cold weather. There are none that beg in the Countrey, but there be Witches too many, bottle-bel- lied Witches among{t the Quakers , and others that produce many firange apparitions — if you will believe report, of a Shallp at Sea man’d with women, of a Ship and a. great red Horfe flanding by the main-maft, _ the Ship being in a mall Cove to the Eaft- ward vanifhed of a fuddain. Of a Witch that appeared aboard of a Ship” twenty leagues to Sea to a Mariner who took up the Carpenters broad Axe and cleft her head with it, che Witch dying of the wound at home, with fuch like BUEP 2Cars | and Ter- ; rienlamentac fe ti | (183 . oS «At. is: + pablidhed, in. print,. “a, there .are ‘not- ‘much lefs than. Ten hundred thoufand : fouls pee Scotch and mal in Seri land. | Te | Viatlac aie ‘ one. at iro ‘one. at i Dahle and one at New-baveny. they. having. done. their generation work are laid aflcep in. their beds of eft till the day.of doom, there and then to.xeceive their. reward. “according as. they have done be it good or evil. “Things of great indurance we fee come to rine, and alter,as great Flouds and Seas drycd up 5 mighty hills and mountains funk into hol- “low bottoms : marvel not then that man_is mortal, fince- his. nature is. unconflant, and tranfitory. Fs The Difeafes. that the Exglifh are -afli- Ged with, arc the fame that they have in England, with fome proper to New-Exg- - land, gxipig of the belly me accompanied — with Feaver and Ague_) which turns tothe bloudy-flux,a common difeafe in the Coun- trey, which together with. the {mall Ro chath -cayried. away abundance of their - children, for this.the common medicines amongft the poorer fort are Pills of Cotton _fwallowed, or Sugar. and. Sallet-oyl beiled thick and made 3 into. Pils, Alfoes pu lverized Sie and (184) and takeni in the pap of an Apple. 1 helped many of them with a {weating, Medicine only. Alfo they are ‘troubled with a dienes in the mouth Gr throat which hath proved mortal to fc omicin a very fhort time Quinfies, _and Impoftumations of the Almonds, with great difiempers of cold. Some of our New-England writers afirm that the Eng- lifh are never or very rarely heard to {neeze or cough,as ordinarily they do in England, which is not true. For a cough or fiitch up- on cold, Wormwood, Sage , Marygolds, and Crabs-claws boiled in poffet-drink and _ drunk off very warm,is a foveraign medi- cine. Pleurifies and Empyemas are frequent there, both cured after one and the fame — way ; but the laft isa defperate difeafe and kills many. For the Pleurifie I have given Coriander-feed prepared, Carduus-feed,and \Harts-born pulverized with good faccels, | the dofe one rata inacup of Wine. * ‘The Stone terribly affli@s many, and the — Gout, and Sciatica, for which take Onions roatted , peeled and fiampt, then boil them with neats-fect oyl and Rhum to a ees and apply ittothehip. Head-aches are frequent, Palfies, Drop- fics, Worms , Noli-me-tangeres , eCanéens; | et. - pefii- (185) peftilent Feavers. Scurvies, the body cor- supted with Sea-dict, Becf and. Pork taint-— _ ed, Butter and Cheefe corrupted, fith rot- ren, a long voyage, coming into the fearche ing fharpnefs of a purer climate, caufeth - death and ficknefs amongft them. | | Men and Women keep their comple ons, but fofe their Teeth: the Women are pittifully Tooth-fhaken ; whether through the coldnefs of the climate, or by {weet- meats of which they have flores Tam not | able to affirm, for the Toothach I have found the following medicine very availa- ble, Brimftone and Gunpowder compound ‘ed with butter, rub the mandible with it, the outfide being firft warm’d. For falling off of the hair occafioned by the coldncfS of the climate, and to make it eurl, take of the firong water called Rhum and wath or bath your head therewith, it . isan admirable remedie. — _. For kibed heels, to heal them take the yclloweft part of Rozen, pulverize it and work it in the palm of your hand with the tallow of a Candle to a falve, and lay: of it to the fore. - For frozen limbs, a plaifter framed wih _ Soap, = and Moloffcs. is fure, or - Cow -lung boiled in milk and app'yed. For Warts and Corns, bathe them with Sca-watele : "There (@T86)) _. ‘There was inthe Countrey nofilong fince _ living, two mensthat\ voided »worms:.feven times their lengths « Likewile :a; young maid that was troubled with aforeipricking at her heart, fill as fhe lean’d -her: body. or ftept down with her:foot to-the one: fide or the other; «this maid during hes. diftemper woided worms of theJéngth of ‘a‘finger all hairy with black: heads; it foofell out that the maid dyed ; her friends defirous. to dif cover the caufe of the diftemper ‘of; her heart, had her optn’d; and found two crook- heart, which as (he bowed her body ¢o the wight or left fide would job their points. into one and the fame'place, till they shad: worn a hole quite through. At Cape-Porpus lived ‘an honeft poor planter of middlesage, and Aisong of body, but fo extreamly troubled — ‘with two lumps (or wens @s 1 conjectured) - within him,on each fide one, that she: could great weight, and {wagging tothe:one fide — or the other, according to, the amotion-or | pofture of his bodys at laithe .d yedcin- duno 1668 as.1 think, or thereabouts? Some Chirargeons there were that proffaccd to opemrhiem, butihis wifeswoald aiatsall hissdifeale wis hiddem im the aGeersis 0d gan bas tae WOES = : as ; koe = es ; a2 5s 89 > it (187) Ft is the opinion of mahy'nien, that the blicktnels ‘of the Negroes proceeded ‘from the curfe upon Cham’s. polterity, others a- gain will have itto be the property of the climate where they lives ‘I pafs by other Philofophical reafons and skill, only render you my experimental: knowledge: having a Barbarie-moor under cure, whofe finger _ (prickt with the bone of a fill) was: Im- poftumated; after I had lanc’dit and ‘let out the Corruption the skin began to xifé with proud ficth under it; this I wore away , and having made afound bottom ¥ incar- nated it, and then laid on “my skinning plaifter, then I perceived that the Moor had one skin more than Englifhmen; the skin that is bafted to the fleth is bloudy and of the farne Azure colour with the veins, but deeper than the colour of our Exropeans veins. Over thisisan other skin of atawny colour, and upon that Epidermis or Cuticu- Ia, the flower of the skin ( whichis thae Snakes cafi) and this is tawny alfo, the co- Jour of the blew skin. mingling: with the _ tawny makes them appear black. I donot peremptorily afarm rchis to be the cauté, but fabmir to better judgment. Moxe -rari- _ ties. of this nature T could make ‘known unto you, but 1 haftento'an cnd only a word oF two of our Engtiy Creatures, anes thes to Seta Rain a (188 ) Ihave given you an Account of fuch _ plants as profper there, and of fuch as do - mot; but fo briefly,that £ conceive it necef- fary to afford you fome what more of | them. Plantain I told you {prang upin the — Countrey after the Englifh came, but it is | but one fort, and that is broad-leaved plantain. | Gilliflowers thrive exceedingly there and are very large, the Collibuy or humming- Bird is much pleafed with them. Our Englifh dames make Syrup of them without fire, they fteep them in Wine. tillit be of a deep colour, and then they put to it fpirie of Vitriol , it ase keep as long. as the o- ther. | Eglantine or Gweet Bryer is beft fowen with Funiper-berries, two or three to one Eglantine-berry put into ahole made with _ . attick, the next year feparate and remove them to your banks, in three years time they will make ahedge as high as a man, — which you may keep thick and handfome — with cutting. Our Englifh Clover-grafs fowen thrives very well. Radifbes I have feen there as big asa mans Arm. Flax and Hemp flouridh pallens | Our Wheas i € fummer Wheat many cimes ei ee times changeth into Rye, and is fubje& to be blafied, {ome fay with avapour breaking out of the earth, others, with a wind -North-eaft or North- weft, at fuch time asit | flowereth, others again fay it is with light- ning. Ihave obferved, that when aland — of Wheat hath been {mitten with a blaft at one Corner, it hath infedted the reft ina weeks time, it begins at the fterm ( which will be {potted and goes upwards to the ear making it fruitlefs: in 1669 the pond that — lyeth between Water-town and Cambridge, — caft its fifh dead upon the fhore, fore’s by a mineral vapour as was conjeGtured. Our -fruit-Trees profper abundantly , Apple-trees, Pear-trees, Ouince-trees, Cherry- trees, Plum-trees, Barberry-trees. Y have obferved with admiration, that the Kernels fownor the Succors planted produce as fair. & good fruit, without graffing,as the Tree from whence they were taken: the Countrey is replenifhed with fair and large Orchards. It was affirmed by one Mr. Woolcut ( amae giftrate in ConneGicut Colony ) at the Cap- tains Meffe ( of which I was ) aboard the Ship I came home in, that he made Five hundred Hogfheads of Syder out of his: own Orchard in- cne years Syder is very plentiful in the Countrey, ordinarily fold for Ten fhillings a Hogfhead. At the Tap- | houtes 1 GF90.) | hela in Boftom 1 have had an Ale-quart {pic’d and {weetned with Sugar-fora groat; but I hall infext amore delicate mixtuse of it. Take of Maligo-Raifons, ftamp them and put milk to them, and putthemin an Eippocras-bag and: let it drain ont of ic {elf puta quantity. of this with a fpoonful- or two of Syrup. of \ Clave-Giliflowers into every ‘bottle, when: you bottle your Syder, and your Planter will have a liquor. that ex. ceeds paljada the . Nectar of the. eae | trcy.: ee The ecnes' Cherries, Tanita fet the Bames a work; Marmalad and, -preferved - Damfons is to be met within every houfe. It was not. long, before E left the: Countrey that I made: Cherry: wine, and fo may others, for there axe good ltore of si sists red and black. | ) Their Fruie-treesa are e fubjegt to. ¢Wo? aif: cafes, thé Meazels, which is when: they: ‘are bukned: and. fcoxched with the Sun, ‘and lowfinefs,when the wood-peckers. job holes in their bask: the way to curethem when they axe lowfie isto’ bore a hole into the main root with an«Augur, and-pour ina quantity of Brandie or Rhum, and then ‘ftop: it up with a ee made of ahd fame _ Bree. aed Sai fre Neat ina thither © was to- _ New- (191), New-Plimouth Anno 162 . _thefe. thrive and | inercafe exceedingly, but ¢ grow lefs in body: | | than thofe they are bred_of yearly. os Horfes there are numerous, and here and, there a good one, they let. them, un_all. the, year: ‘abroad, and in the winter, {eldom. prc-. vide any fother for them, A except it be.. | Mapiftrates, great: “Maftess. and... Troopers, Hoxfes which brings them,very. fowin Hef, till the fpring, and {o. creft fallen, that, their, crefis never rifeagain. Heret. fixdty, met with, that excrefcence called Hippomanes, which, by fome is faid to grow onthe.forehcad-of — a foal new caft, and that the. Mare. Ditestite off as foon as foaléd;, but. this is but,..a fable. _ A neighbour at, Black: “poiat having a Mare with foal tyed her up in: his. Barns: the next day the foaled, and the man Bands. ing by {pied a thing like a foals. tongue. to. drop out of the foals mouth , which, he: took up and prefented. me, ‘with. ‘it, telling: me withall, that hehad heard; many. won-.' derful chings reported of it, and,that i it was: sank poyfon. I accepted of it gladly and. brought i it home with me, when it was,dry. it lookt like Glew,..but of-a dark brown colour ;..to omit all other: ules for ity this I: can aflure you. that -a .piece of .it foakt in. warm water or cold, will take {pots ont of. wollen Clothes being rabid, thereon. . —— eo . Goats (192) ae Goats were the fir (mall Cattle they . had in the Countrey,he was counted no body — that had nota Trip or Flock of Goats: a hee-Goat gele at Michaelmas and turn’d out to feed will be fat in a moneths time, & is as good meat asa weather. Iwas taught by a Barbary Negro a medicine which before I proceed any turther {i will impart unto you, and that was for a {welling under the throat. Take Goats hair and clay and- boil them in fair water to a poultis, and apply it verywam. | | = Sheep now they have good ftore, thefe. and Goats bring forth two, fometimes three Lambs and Kids at a time. nas ee Hfoggsare here innumerable; every plan-— ter hath a Heard, when they feed upon fhell- fifth and the like, as they do that are kept near the Seaand by the fifhers ftages, they taft fifhie and rank; but fed with white | Oak-Acorns, or Indian-Corn and Peafe there is not better Pork in the whole world : be- — fides they fometimes have} the Meazels, which is known when their hinder legs are horter than ordinary. eee _ Catta and Dogs are as common as in England, but our Dogs in time degenerate ; yet they have gallant Dogs both for fowl & wild Beafts all over the Countrey : the Indi- ans {tore themfelves with them, being gers | | | etter, UR ee better for their turns, than their breed of | wild dogs, which are ( as Pconceive ) lik® to the Zaffo-canes or mountain dogs in Teuly.. See aan : aa _ Of Exghfh Poultry too there is good — ftore, they have commonly three broods in _ ayear 5 the hens by that time they are three years old have fpurs like the Cock, but noe _ altogether fo big, but as long, they ufe to _ erow often, which is fo sare a thing in other Countries, that they have a proverb Gallina recinit a Hen crowes. And in England it is accounted ominous ; therefore our Farmers _ wives as foon as’ they hear a Hen crow. wring off her neck, and fo they ferve their | {pur'd Hens, becaufe they fhould not break their Eges with their fpurs when they fit. In the year 1637, which was when I went my firft Voyage to New-Exgland a good woman brought aboard with her a lufty ‘Cock and Hen that had horns like fpurs _ glowing out on each fide of their Combs, but the {poiled the breed, killing cf them at — Sea, to feed upon, for the lovéd a freth bit. In Auno 164% .Certain Indians coming to our houfe clad in Deere-skin coats, defired cleave to lodge allnight in our kitchin, it be-. ing a very rainie feafon, fome of them lay- down in the middle of the Room, and O- thers under the Table, in’ the mornitip they : 3 went 94) went away before any of the people were ups the poultry had their breakfatt wfually in cold weather in the kitchin, and becaufe _ they thould not hinder the paffing of the people too and again, it was thrown under the Table ; in the afternoon they beganto hang the wing, in the night the fickeft drope _dead from the perch, and the next day moft of them dyed ; we could not of a fudden ghefs at the caufe, but thought the Indians. had either bewitched , or poyfonedthem: | “it came at laftanto my head, feeing their Crops very full, or rather much {welld, to open them,wherel found as much Deers hair as Corn, they that picket up none of the hair fived andidid well. In the year 1667. Ocfober the 7th amongt our poultry we had one white game Cock of the French kind, a bird of high price, ‘when he wasthree years old he drooped and his (pisit was quite gone 5 one of our Negro maids finding him in the yard dead brought him into the houfe and acquainted me with it. Tcaufed her to draw him , when his guts were all drawn out the Ae in her hand again and felt a lump in his body as big.as ahalf-peny loaf, firongly faftned to his back, and much ado the had to pall it | out 3 I found it to be a tuff bag, containing fall: like liver, and very heavie, at one enc (195) of-the bag, another little bag filled witha fatty matter, his gizard, liver, and heart wafted. The Pipe or Roupe . is a common difcafe amongft their poultry infe@ing one - another with it. I conceive it cometh of — a cold moifture of the brain, they willbe: very fleepie with it, the beft cure for it is Garlick and (moaking of them with dryed Hyfope. In Scpiaonbas following my Arivace) inthe Maffachufets about the twelfth hour of the eight day, Ifhipt my felf and goods in 2 Bark bound to the Eaft-ward, meeting as we failed out the Dutch Governour of News Netherlands, who was received and enter- tained at Bofton by the Governour and Magi- . {trates with great folemnitys About nine of the clock at night we came to Salem and aly aboard all nighe. The Ninth day we went afhore to view the Town which is 2 mile long, and lay thae night ata Merchants houfe: The Tenth day we came from Salem about twelve of the clock back to Marble-bead : _ here we went afhore and recreated our felves - with Mufick and a cup of Sack and faw the Town, about ten at night we returned to ~ our Bark and lay aboard. ; The Eleventh being Saturday, and the " wind Sue we caine to Charles-town, Q 2 | again | - ftoreof Mackgrel. (196) again about twelve of the clock we took The Thirteenth being Monday, we went aboard again about nine of the clock in the morning and out to Sea, about Sun going down we took ftorecf Mackarel. The wind — was {canty all along, and inthe night time we durit not bear much fail, becaufe of the Rocks and foaming breakers that lay in our way. | See The Fourteenth day we came up with . Pofcataway, or Pafcatique, where there isa large River and a fair harbour, within . here is feated a Colony,properly belonging to the - Heirs of Captain Mafon fometime fince of London, but taken into the Colony of - Maffacbufets, by what right I will not here ~ difcufs. Hees e 2 The chiefeft places of notearethe Bay or Harbour North from Bofton, on the Weft- - _ fide of the Harbour are built many fair houfes, and fo in another part called Straw- berry-bank. | _ By the Harbour is an Ifland which of late _daysis filled with buildings , befides there _ are twoTowns more feated up higher upon _ the River, the one called D.ver ; the River- _ banks are clothed with ftately Timber, and here are two miles meadow land and arable enough; the other town is called Exceffer. i | : € = C197). | _ At the River. Pafeataway begins the Pro- vince of Maig: having pleafed our {elves with the fight of Pafcataway at a diftance we failed on, and came to Black-point. = The Fifteenth day, about eight of the clock at night, where the nexe day I was fhrewdly pinched with a great froft, but having two or three bottles of excellent Paffada, and good cheer beftowed upon me I made a fhift to bear it out, and now.we are in the Province of Maiz. S ae _ _The Province of Maia, ( or the Countrey of the Trogquoes ) heretofore called Laconia _ OF New-Summerfetfhire, isa Colony belong- ing to the Grandfon of Sir Ferdinando Gorges of Afbton Phillips inthe County of Sommerfet, the faid Sir Ferdinando Gorges. did expend in planting feveral parts of New- England above Twenty thoufand pounds sterling » and when he was between three and four {core years of age did rerlonally engage in our Royal Martyrs fervice; and» particularly in the Scige of Briftow, and was plundered and imprifoned feveral times, by _ reafon whereof he was difcountenanced by the pretended Commiffioners for forraign p'antations, and his Province incroached upon by the Maffachufets Colony , who zflumed the Government thereof. His Ma- jellie that now Reigneth fent over his Com- | eee oe miflioners R98 miffioners to reduce them within their bounds, and to put Mr. Gorges again into pofieflion. Buc there falling out aconteft about it, the Commiflioners fettled it in the Kings name (until the bufinefs fhould be de- termined before his Majeftie ) and gave Commiffions to the Judge of their Courts, and the Jufticesto Govern and Act accord- _ ing to the Laws of Englano,& by fuch Laws of their own as were not repugnant to them:But as foon as the Commiflioners were returned for England, the Ma([achufets enter the province in a hoftile manner witha Troop of Horfe and Foot and turn’d the | Judge and his Affiftants off the Bench, Im- prifoned the Major or Commander of the - Militia, threatned the Judge, and fome o- thers that were faithful to Mr. Gorges inte- refis. could difcover many other foul proceedings, but for fome reafons which might be given, I conceive it not conveni- ent to make report thereof to vulgar ears; que fapra nos nibil ad nos. Onely this I could with, that there might be fome confiderati- on of the great loffes, charge and labour, which hath been fuftained by the Judge, and» fome others for above thirty years in uphold- ing the rightsof Mr. Gorge and his Sacred Majefties Dominion againft a many ftubborn and elufive people. eg Anno (199) Anno Dom. 1623. Mr. Robert Gorge, Sit Ferdinando Gorges brother had for his good fervice granted him by Patent from the- — Council of Plimouth all that part of the Land commonly called Maffachufiack, fitua- _ ted onthe North-fide of the Bay of Maffe- — chufets. | ~ Not long after this Sir Ferdinando Gorges had granted to him by Patent from the — -middeft of Merrimack:River to the great River Sagadehock, then called Laconiz. In 1635. Capt. William Gorge, Sir Ferdi- nando s Nephew, was fent over Governour of the Province of Main, then called New- Summerfet{bire. Sa Sir FerdinandoGorge rectived a Charter- Royal from King Charles the firft the third of April in the Fiftcenth of his Raign grant- ing to him all that part and portion of New- England, lying and being between the River of Pafeataway, that is, beginning at the entrance of Pafcataway-harbour, and fo to pafs up the fame intothe River of New- — ichawanoe or Neghechewanek, and through the fame unto the fartheft head thereof aforefaid, North-caftward along the Sea- coafts, for Sixty miles to Sagadeboc-River to Kenebcck, even as far as the head thercof, and up into the main land North- weftward forthe {pace of one hundred and twenty : Qa4 ‘ miles. (200 ) miles. To thefe Territories are ad joyned the | ‘North half-Ifle of Soles, with feveral other _ — Mflands, it lyeth between 44 degrees and 45 ‘of Northerly latitude. The River Canada onthe North-eaft the Sea coaft. South, a- "mongft many large Royalties,. Jurifdi@ions and Immunities was alfo granted to the faid. Sit Ferdinando Gorge, the fame Royalties, — priviledges and franchiles as are,or of right” ought to be enjoyed by the Bithop of Durbam in the County Palatine of Durham ; the planters to pay for every hundred Acres _- OF land yearly, two fhillings fix pence, that is fach land as is given to them and. their Heirs for ever. The Officers by Patent are a Deputy Go- vernour, a Chancellor, a Treafurer,a Marfhal for Souldiers, an Admiraltie for Sea affairs, — and a Judge of the Admiraltie, a Matter of | - Ordinance, a Secretary, &c. Towns there are not many in ‘this pro- vince. Kittery fituated not far from as way is the moft populous. Next to that Eaftward is feated by a Ri- vex near the Sea Gorgiana, a Majoraltic, | _ and the Metropolitan of the province. - Further to the Eaftward 1s the Town of Wells. | . Cape=Porpus Ediwad of that where there is a Town by the ote fide of the fam: wae | | the - (ser 7 the houfes fcatteringly buile, all thefe Towns. « have ftore of fale and frefh marhh with arable land , and are well fiocke with - Cattle 3 About eight or nine aie to the Eaf- ward of Cape-Porpus, is Winter harbour, a. noted place for Fifhers, here they have many flages. : Saco adjoyns to this, s. both nate one. {cattering Town of large extent, well ftored with Cattle, arable land and marthes, and a Saw-mill. | Six mile to the Eafward of Saco & forty. mile from Gorgiana is feated the Town of. Black: point, contifting. of about fifty dwel- ling houfes, and a Magazine or Dogaune, _ fcatteringly built, they have ftore of neat ' and horfes , of theep near upon: Seven or. Eight hundred, much arable and marth fale _ and freth, and a Corn-mill. To the Southward of the point ( upon which are ftages for ifhermen ) lye two — - {mall Iflands beyond the point, Nortk-zaft- ward runs the River S purwinch. Four miles from Blick- -point, one tile from Spurwinch-Rives Eaftward lyeth Rich- mans-Ifland, whole longitude is 317 degrees _ 30 {cconds, and latitude 43 degrees and 34 - minutes, it is three mile in circumference, and hatha pafiabl leand gravelly ford onthe | Z : North- ’ (202 ) North-fide, between the main and the Sea ; at low-water, here are found excellene Whetftones, and here ineewnt are ftages for fithermen. | | Nine mile Eaftward of Black- point lyeth {catteringly the Town of Cafco upon a large Bay, fiored with Cattle, Sheep, Swine, a- | bundance of marfh and Arable land,a Corn- mill or two, with ftages for fifhermen, Further Eaflt-ward is the Town of Kene- — beck (eated upon the River. _ Further yet Eaft-ward is Sagadchock , where there are many houfes (cattcring, and all along fiages for filhermen, thefe too are ftored with Cattle and Corn lands. | The mountains and hills that are tobe taken notice of, are firlt Acomentiens hills, between Kettery ‘ted Gorgiana, the high hills _ of Offapey to the Weft-ward of Saco River, where the princely Pilbanaw Ayries, the white mountains, to the North-ward of — ~ Black: point y the, higheft Terraffe in New- England, you have the defcription of itin © my Treatife of the rarities of Nerp-Eng- land. | A Neighbour of t mine rathly wandering out after fome firay’d Catele, lott his way, and coming as we conceived by his Relation near to the head fpring of fome of the aed of Black- point: River or Saco-River, | light (203 ) light into a TraG@ of land for God knowes — _ how many miles full of delfes and dingles, and dangerous precipices, Rocks and inex- tricable difficulties which did juftiy daunt, yea quite deter him from endeavouring to pafS any further : many fuch like places are to be met with in New-England. — ! The ponds or lakes in this province are — very largeand many, out of which the great Rivers have their original 5 we read of the lake Balfena that is thirty miles about, here are that come very near to it, ftored with all forts of frefh water fifth; and if you will — believe report, in one of them huge fifhes like Whales are to be feen, and fome of them have fair Iflandsin them. Twelve mile from Cafeo-bay, and paffable for men and _ horfes, is a Jake called by the Indians Sebug, on the brink thereof at one end is the famous Rock fhap’d like a Moofe-Deere or Helk, Diaphanovs,and called the Mooft-Rock. Here are found ftones like Cryftal , and. Lapis Specularis or Mufcovta glals both white - andpurple. — | meee On the Eafi-fide of Black-potut- River upon a plain, clofe te the Sea-bank is a pond two mile in compafs, fifhit produceth, — but thofe very {malland black, and a num-_ ber of Frogs and Snakes, and much fre- : : quent- (204) quented by wild-fowl, Ducks, Teal, and — wild-Swins, and Geefe , elpecially {pring and fall when they pafs along to the South-. ward, and return again to the North-ward wherethey breed. ts ee _. The principal Rivers in. the province of Main,are P afcataway-River, York: River, Keni- bunck-River, near.to this River clay bullets were caft up by a mineral vapour, this Ri- ver is by the Town of Wells. Then Saeco. _ River on the Eaft-fide of the Town,the thore - Rockie afl along on both tides, where mufick echoes from feveral places: {even miles up the River is a great fall where abundance of Salmon, and Lampronss axe taken at the fall, a great way up, the River runs upon the Rock, im rupibus defendendo efficis rivos, he cutteth out Rivers among the Rocks, — faith Fob, of the, Almighty , fob 28.10. A littic above thefall is @ faw-mill. Then | Black-point- River divided into many branch-_ es; this as mott of the Rivers in New-Eng. ~ _ dand,is bar’d. with a bank of Sand,where the _ Endians take Sturgeon and Baffe. Spur-winck- River is next, which by his near approach to Black-point-river maketh that neck of ~ Jand aimoft ad Ifland. Furcher EsQ- ward is Kenebeck-tiver hity leagues off of New- Plimouth Batt-ward, and Pechipfeut famous — : Sh ee _for (205 ) ae for multitudes of mighty large Stsrgeon. The laft river of the province Eaft-ward is the great river Sagadebock where Sir Fobu _ Pophams Colony feated themfelves. — _. The chief harbours are Cape-porpus, Win- er harbour, in which are fome {mall Iflands, Black-point, Richmans-Iland, Cafco-bay the largeft in the province full of Iflands. = _. From Sagadehock to Nova Scotia is called the Duke of Yorkes province, here Pemma- quid, Montinicus, Mobegan, Capeanawhagen, where Capt. Smith fitht for Whales 5 Mufca- taquid, all fill’d with dwelling houles and ftages for fifhermen,and have plenty of Cat- tle, arable land and marfhes. | | Nova Scotia was fold by the Lord Star- Jing to the French,and is now wholly in theie poffeflion. 7 _, Now we.are come to New-found-land, which is over againft the gulf of St. Law | rence, an Iflznd near as fpacious as Ireland, and lyeth diftant from the Continent as far as England is from the neareft part of France, and near half the way between Ire- land and Virginia, its longitude is 33.4 de- grees 20 feconds, and North latitude 46 degrees 30 minutes, or as others wills3 minutes, The longitude of places are uncer- tainly reported, but in latitudes moft agree. a | = Lon- 7“ (206 ) ~ Longitude isthe diftance of the meridian of any place fromthe meridian which paffeth over. the Iffes of Azores, where tbe begenning of longi- aude is faid to be. The meridian is a great circle dividing the Equincdial at right Augles into two equal parts, pafing alfo through both the Poles, andthe Zenith, ta which cirele the Sun coming twice every 24 bours, maketh the. middle of the day, and the middle of the night. Every place bath a feveral meridian , but they all meet in the poles of the world. Lasitude is counted from the EquinoGzal to the end of 30 degrees on each fide thereof. The Equincdiial is a great circle imagined inthe Heavens, alfo dividing the beavens into iwo equal parts, and lying jujt in the middle be- twixt the two poles, being in compafs from Welt to Eaft, 360 degrees, evry degree thereof on the terreftrial Globe valuing 20 Englifh miles, or 60 miles | Into the Bay of St. Lawrence the River of St. Lawrence or Canada difimbogues it felf, a River far exceeding any River in the elder. world , thirty or forty mile over at the mouth,and in the Channel one hundred fa-. thom deep 5 it runs on the back-fide of: New-Eugland and Virginia: the French (it isfaid ) have gone up fix:weeks voy- age init,and have not yet difcovered the fpring-head; the longitude is 334 degrees sas | IB (207) | ix feconds, in 50 degrees 21 minutes of North latitude. This may fatistiea modeft Reader, and I hope yield no offence toany. I fhall onely {peak aword or two of the people in the province of Maiz and the Dukes province,and fo conclude. | The people in the province of Maiz may bedivided into Magiftrates, Husbandmen, ‘or Planters, and fifhermen; of the Magi- firates fome be Royalifts, the reft perverfe Spirits, the like are the planters and fithers, of which fome be planters and fifhers both others meer fifhers. | ‘Handicrafts-men there are but few, the Tumelor or Cooper, Smiths and Carpen- ters are beft welcome amongft them, fhop- keepers there are none; being fupplied by the Maffachufets Merchants with all things they fiand in need of, Keeping here and there - fairMa gazines ftored with Englifh goods, but they fet exceflive prices on them, if they do not gain Cent per Cent, they cry out that they are lofers , hence Englifh thooes are fold for Eight and Nine fhillings a pair, _ worlted ftockins of Three fhillings fix pence a pair, for Seven and Eight fhillings a pair, , Douglas that is fold in England for one ox two and twenty pence an ell, for four fhil- lings a yard, Serges of ‘two {hillings ox — three fhillings a yard, for Six and ing Btn il- 208) > fhillingsa yard, and fo all foes of Com- imodities both for planters.and fifhermen, as Cables, Cordage, Anchors, Lines, Hooks, ‘Nets, Canvas for Sails, oe. Bisket. twenty five fhillings a hundred, Sale at an exceffive wate, pickled-herrin for winter bait Four and five pound a barrel ( with which they {peed not fo well as the waggith lad at Gape- porpus, who baited his hooks with the drown’d Negrv’s buttocks) fo for Pork and Beefi ‘The planters are or fhould be refilefs pains takess, providing for their Cattle, planting and fowing of Corn, fencing their grounds, cutting and bringing home ‘fuel, cleaving of claw-board and pipe-ftaves , fithing for freth water fith and fowling takes up moft of their time,if not all; the dili- gent hand maketh rich, but if they be ofa droanith difpofition as fome are,they become wretchedly poor and miferable, {carce able to free themfelves and family from impor- tunate famine, efpecially in the winter Ket ‘ pant of bread. _ They have a cuftom of ies Tobacco, fleeping at noon,.- fitting long at meals fome- times four times in a day, and now and then drinking a dram of ‘the bottle extraodinari- ly:the (moaking of Tobacco, if moderate- ly ufed refrcfheth the ays much, and fo doth fleep. A esldee A gut fit dah doth, epee ae ie To Sleep, as tudent feven will have, =e , 29 : And nine Sleeps. every Idle Rear ; | = 203 489 1 he Phyfitian allowes but three® dinughte “ata meal,.the firftfor need, the fecond for ’ pleafure,. and che third for fleep 5 but litle _obfeived by them, unlefs they have no other” liquor to drink but water. : In fome places’ “where the fprings are frozen up, or at ‘leaft the way to their {prings:made unpaffable _by reafon of the {now and the like, they” * dels their meat in Aqua Céleftis, i.e. melt- ed {now,at other times it is very well cookt, and they fced upon ( generally ) as good flefh, Beef, Pork, Mutton, Fowl and fith as any is in the whole world befides, = Their Servants which are for the: rai” ‘part ‘Englifh, when they are out of their’ time, will not work under half. a Crown -a- day, although it be for to make hay, and for’ efs I do nor fee how they can, by reafon of the dearnefé of clothing. If they hire them by the year, they pay them Fourteen or Fife © teen pound, yca Twenty pound at the years end in Corn, Cattle and fith: fome of thefe prove excellent fowlers, bringing in as many as will maintain their: mafters houfe; be= | fides the profit that accrews by their feathers. R ae oF — (alo) ‘They ufe ( when it is to be had )a great. round fhot, called Barftable thot, (which is beft for fowl ) made of alead blackerthan our common lead, to fix pound of thot they allow one pound of powder, Cannon pow” der is efteemed,beft. . ; _ The fithexmen take yearly upon the coafts = many. hundred kentals of Cod , hake,had- ~ dock, polluck é&c... which they fplit, falt and~ dry at their fiages, making three voyages in ayear. When they fhare their fifh ( whichis _ at the end of every voyage ) they feparate the. beft from the worft, the firft they call. Merchantable fith, being, (ound, fall grown — fith: and well ‘made up, which is known. when. it is clear like aLanthorn horn and without fpots; the fecond fort they call re~ fule fifh, thatis {uch as is fale burnt, fpotted, | rotten, and. catclefly ordered: thefe they put off to the Maffschufets Merchants; the. mer- chantable .for thirty. and. two ‘and thirty xyals a kental, (a kental isan hundred and twelve pound weight ) the sefufe for Nine fhillings and Ten; fhillings a kental, the Merchant fends the merchantable fith to Lisboune, Bilbo, Burdeaux, Marfiles, Tallon, Rochel, Roan, and other Cities of France, to the Canaries. with claw-board and pire-. flaves which is ‘there and at the Charibs a PRD SOmmPR Ly s the refufe fththey ae | (21t)- | off at the Charib- Ilands,Barbadees, Famica, &e. who feed their Negroes with it. se _ Toevery Shallop belong four’ fifhermen, a Maftér or Stcerfman, a Midfhip-man , and a Foremafi-man, anda fhoré.man who wathes it out of the falt, and dries it upon hurdles pitcht upon: ftakes breaft high and ” tends their Cookery 5 thefe often get in one voyage Eight or Nine pound a man for their fhares, but it doth fome of them little goad, for the Merchant to,increafe his gains by putting of his Commodity in the midft of their voyages, and at the end thereof comes in with a walking Tavern, a Bark Jaden — with the Legitimate bloud of the rich grape, which they bring from Phia/, Madera, Ga- navies, with Brandy, Rhum, the Barbadoes firong-water, and Tobacco, coming athore he gives them a Tafter or two, which fo charms them, that for no perfwafions that their im- ployers can ufe will they go out to Sea, al- though fair and feafonable weather, for two or three days, nay fometimes a whole week till they are wearied with drinking, taking athore two or three Hogtheads of Wine and Rbam.to drink off when the Merchant is gone. If aman of quality chance to come where they are royftering and gulling in Wine with a dear felicity, he mult be: focia- ble and Roly-poly with them , taking off | a Ce Rog their | (212): their liberal cups as freely, or elfe. be: gone, : ’ which is beft for ‘him, for when Wine “in their guts is at full Tide, they quarrel, fight and do one another mifchief, which is the conclufion of their drunken compotati- ents When the day of payment comes, they may juftly complain of their coftly” fin of drunkennefs, for their fhares will do no more than pay the reckoning ; if they fave 4 Kental:or two to buy fhooes and fiockins, fhirts and waftcoats with, ’tis well, other- -waycs they ‘muft enter into the Meichants - books for fach things as they fiand in need off, becoming thereby the Merchants flaves,8 when it-rifeth to a big fum ‘are conftrained -tomortgage their plantation if they have _ any, the Merchant when the time is expired is fare to feize: upon their plantation and: ftock of Cattle, turning them out of houfe and home , poor Cyeatures,to look out for a new habitation in fome remote place where they begin the world again. The lavith planters have the fame fate, partaking with ‘them in the like bad’ husbandry, of thefe. the Merchant buys Beef, Pork, Peafe, ‘Wheat and Indian Corn, and fells it again Many times to- the filhermen. Of the fame mature are the people in the Dukes province, ' who not Tong’ ‘before I left the Countrey eerie the Governour and Magiftrates is fic gee rece Fee the Maffacbufets to take them into their - Government, Birds of a‘feather- will ‘ralley - fogcthet. cc. vais aolviahiags 7 -aj.d yet _ Anno, Dom. 1671. The year being now well {pent , and the Government of - the province turned topfiturvy, being heartily — weary and expecting the approach of win- ter, 1 cook my leave of my friends at Black- point. And on the 28 of Auguft being Mon- _ day I fhipe my felf and my goods aboard of a fhallop bound for Bofton: towards Sun-fet, ti ¢ wind being contrary, we put into: Gib- bons his Mland, a {mall land in Winter-bar- - bowr about,two leagues from Black-point — Weft-ward, here we tiayed till the 30.day being Wednefday, about nine of the .clock we fet fail, «nd towards Sun-fer came up with Gorgiana, the 31 day being Thurfday we put into Cape-Ana-harbour about Sur- fet. September the 1 being Saturday in the — morning betore day we fet fail and came to — Bofton about three of the clock in the after. ‘noon, where I found the Inhabitants ex- - ceedingly «ffl Cted with griping of the gure, and Fcaver, and Ague, and bloudy Flux. . The Bight day of Odober being Wednef= day, I boarded the new-Supply of Bojton 170 Yun, a Ship of better fai! chan defence, her Guns being (mall, and for. falutation only, the Matter Capt. Fairmeasber, hex R 3 failers” (214). failers 16. and asmany paflengers. Towards night I returned to Boffon again, the next | j fees eae stray cee day being Thankfgiving day, on -Fryday the Tenth day we weighed Anchor and fell’ down to Hull. . es eh cles ~The 12 and 13 day about 20 leagues _ from Gape-Sabie abitter ftorm took us, be- ginning at feven of the clock at night, which put usin terrible fear of being driven upon the Cape, or the [iland of Sables where many a tall (hip hath been wracke.. | November the One and twenty about:two of the clock afternoon we faw within ken- ning before us thick clouds, which put us in hope of land, the Bofoz brings out his purfe, mto which the paffengers put their good will , then prefently he nails it to the main-mafi, up go the boyes to the main- mafi-top fitting there like fo many Crowes, when after a while one of them cryes out land,which was glad tidings to the wearied — _ paffengers,the boyes defcend, and the purfe being taken from the maft was diftributed amongft them, the lad chat’ firft defcryed _ land having a double fhare : about three of the clock Seilly was three leagues off. — _ The Four and twentieth day we came to — Deal, from thence the 25. to Lee, the 26. being Sunday we ficemed the Tide to Gravefead , about two of the clock af- | ee : {er (215) | ternoon. The 27 wecameup with Wollich where [landed and refrefht my felf for that might, next day I footed it four or five miles to Bexley in Kent to vifit a near kinf- man, the next day proved rainie, the 30 day being Fryday my kinfman accommodated me witha Horfe and his man to Greenwich, where I took a pair of Oars and went aboard our Ship then lying before Radcliff, here 1 lay that night. Next day being Saturday, and the firft of December U cleared my goods, fhot the bridge and landed at the Temple about feven of the clock at night, which makes my voyage homeward 7 weeks and four days, and from my firft fetting out from Londm to my returning to London again Eight years Six moneths and odd ays. ) Néw by the merciful providence of the. Almighty, having perform’d Two voyages to the North-eatft parts of the Weftern- world, Tam fafely arrived in my Native ~Countrey s havingin part made good the French proverb, Travail where thou canft, but dye where thou oughteft, that is,in thine own Countrey. | FINS - Chronological OBSERVATIONS OF AMERICA, | From the ‘year of the World = tothe year of Chrift, inte Bee sees B88 LONDON: Ps nted for Giles Widdowes, at a Green- ~~ Praconin St. Paul’ $- Church- yard, 174 | -. The Preface. Wc E Terreftrial world ws eal by our learned Geogra- boi, Phers divided into four . a7) parts, Europe, Afia, ay Africa and America (0. Sey ~ . gamed from Americus ~Velpucius te Florentine, Seven years, after Columbus ; although Columbus and Cabota deferved rather the honour of being Godfathers to it: notwithfiand= — ing by this name itis now known to ts, but was utterly unknovon to the .Anci- ent Europeans before their times, I voll not fay to the Africans and Afians, for Platoinhis Témeus relateth of a great Ifland, called Atlantis , and Philo the Few inhis book De mundo, that it was over-flowen with water, by reafon of » a mighty Earthquake; The like hap- ee pened 4... The Preface, | _penedto it 600 years before Péazo: thus. was the Atlantick Ocean, caufed to bea’ Sea, if you will beliebe the fame Phi- lofopher, who flourifbed 366 years before the Birth of our Saviour, = America is boanded on the South with the ftreight of Magellan, where — there ave many Sflands diftingnifbed — by an tnterfliwing Bay, the Weft with the pacifique Sea, or mare-del-zur, whith Sea runs towaras the North, feparate- ing it from the Eaft parts of Afia ; oa the Eaft with the Atlantick, or our — wWeftern Ocean called mare-del-Norts - and on the North with the Sea that feparateth it from Groveland, thorow which Seas the fuppofed paflage to China lyeth , thefe North parts, as yet are but barely difcovered by our voya- gers, ee ee ee he length of this new world be- tween the firerghts of Anian and Ma- sellan is 2400 German miles, in breadth between Cabo de fortuna zear the Anian fireights is +300 German miles, About 18 leagues from Nombre | | Zak ee _ The Preface, de dios,ow the South-Sea lyeth Panama (4 City having three fair Monafleries in tt ) where the narrowest part of the — Countrey 1s, 2t ts much lefs than Afia, and far bigger than Europe, and as the reft of the world divided into Iflands and Continent, the Contizent _ feppofed to contain about 1152400000. ACHES. as | 2S ‘The Native people I have fpoken of - already: The difcoverers and Plasters of Colonies, efpectally in the North- eaft parts, together with a continua- tion of the proceedings of the Englifh tm New-England, from the firff year of their fetling there to purpofe, to this prefent year of our Lord 1673. with many other. things by the way inferted and worth the obferving I prefent un- to your view in this enfuing Table. i Anne segsgeseeass inn Pc Mundi, 3720. SOS 98 ) Ritain cael to the Giettens* as appea- | red by Polybins the Greek Hiftorian 265 - ycars before the Birth of our Saviour,& : Ater’ him Atheneus a Greek Author of good ac. — count 170 before Chrift, relateth that Hiero fent for 2 maft for a great Ship that he had built to Britain. | | 374 O-- As Hanno the Carthaginian Gourithed , hs fent to difcover the great ¥land Allens, te Ge America, 3373. ae Britain unknown to the mae was + it difcovered ‘to them by Fulius Cefar', 54. years before the Birth of Chrift, who took’ it to be part of the Continent of France,’ and got nothing but the fight of that part called afterwards England , which is “the” South of Britain. — ae Anno Domini, oa. Britain difcovered to be an (land, aa conquered by Fulins Agricola 136. years: aftcr Julius Cefars cnttance into it, | “99 The 2 5 atin SE gh es The S ispaiane bie ‘Aburithed. ae firetched the Confines of the Roman Em- pire, unto’ the remoteft Dominions of the Eaft-Indies, who never before = time ae heard of a Roman. eS re 745° honigec Bithop of Mensa City in: Givmia. | ay., was accufed before Pope Zachary in the time of Ethelred King of the Eaf-An- - gles for Herefie; éc. in that heaverred there were Antipodes. St. Axngujtine and. Latian- : tins opinion was thatthere were none. BlTe i. Egbert the on “Monarch | ‘changed the name of the people in England, and called. them Englijh- Men. = | The Turks or S Bos Ae, came fori thence. in the time of Eshelolf King of the Weft, Saxons. If the Ortoman-line fhould fail, the Chrim Tartar is to fucceed, Mie both of one, Family. Lee es Edgar Sisnamed +a pescaatie: 3 va 30 Monarch of the Exglifs, caufed. the Wolves to be deftroyed by impofing a Tribute upon the Princes of Wales; and Fage Prince of | North-Wales paid him ml 300 Wolves, which (297) which continued three years fpace, inthe fourth year there was not a Wolf to be ‘. found, and fo the Tribute ceafed. eo 1160. = tn the. Emperours Frederick Barbaroffa’s Sic, certain aeaheletions; came into Ger= ey. ; . | : LIigo . ‘Madoc the Son of Owen Groinesh Prince. of North-Wales his voyage to the Weft-In- dies, he planted a Colony. in the Weftern part of the Compiteyy4 in Our t Henry the Se conds pag | ; ) 1300. *&F bsin of Malphi in Naples ae eS ee in our Edvard the firfts time. ) 30. ) The Canaries dilcoresed by an Egil Ship. 133]. tbaat ae pawl: the se 5 time a Comet ap: een, continuing ee ‘eth ~ Machan. an Englifo aa serideneal dif. “covered Madera Iflands 13,50. Ejtotiland Wise. eiecicn® of F cei in Edward the third’s Raign. 1360. | t he Francifcan-Fryer Niebolas de Enns; S who (228) « : who is faid to’ difcover the Pole: by his black Art, went’ thither in hs iri a Edward the Third.” | , 1972. : ‘Sir Fobn Maitdivel, the Great Traveller ayed at Leige a ‘City-in the Netherland Provinces in Edward the Third’ sRaign. 1380. ° ) = “Nicholas and’ Antonio Zeni, two’ Noble Gentlemen of Venice were driven by Tem- . pelt upon the Wand’ of Eftotiland or Gron- - dard; in our Edward the Third’s Raign. ie oy ne : _ The Canales cone by by Betan-Conrt ; a Frenebman. | | = eS a OS ss The Ifland of Madera dicovered. in our | Henry the Fifth’s time, a 1428. . The Ifland Picerto hi or Hily port i : fant from- Madera 40 miles, difcovered by” Portingal Mariners on -All- pallies. -day, and therefore called Holy-port, it is in compais | Tye miles, in sa is Sixth's ie | The land of Cope de werd difcovered.. 1452. x ‘The atatine paits of Guinea dueavereed | ae ast i Rees 8 in Fear the Sixth’s Raign.’ | sprees: 1S (229 f>- od hagas) Ans : Ferdinando fit Monarch of all Spain. . ee ee e Henry the Seventh began to Raign. the 40d BgSGer ade ks: The Kingdom of Angola.and Congo, with the Iflands of St. George, Sts James and St. — Helens difcovered. Chriftopber Columbus a Genouefe offered the difcovery of the Wefl-Indies to Henrythe. _ vhe Seetlinds?, gh@oad bas cigs; Chriftopher. Columbus fent to difcover the Welt-Indies by Ferdinando King of Arragon, and D/abellz Queen of Caftile, who defcend- oo feet Beard the Thisd. King of Exg- Faded ak i He eG aT The Caribby-Iflands the Antilles or Cani- bal, ox Camerean-Iflands now difcovered by Chriftopber Columbus, and. took poffeffion of Florida anid. Hifpanisla fox the King of. Spaine | “a 4} 5 : aaa Alexander the Sixt Pope of Rome a Spa- yiard, took upon him to divide the wozld by his Bull, ‘betwixt the Portingal and the Spaniard, bearing datethe fourth of Mays giving tothe one the Eaft,,and to the other the Weft- Indies. fc tt aad. 53 St. (230) a St. Sean Porto Rico .difcovered by Chiite- pher Columbus, Guba and Jamaica difcovered by him, this was his fecond voyage: T495° S ebaftian Caboia che firft uta atteinpted to difcover the North- weft ieee te at the charge of Henry the Seventh. 1497: Chriftopber Columbus his RES voyage to the Weft-Indies, and flow he difcovered _ the Countreys of Paria and Cumana, with _ the Wands of Cubagua and Margarita. Fobn Cabota and his Son Sebajtian Cabora fent by Henry the Seventh, to difcover the Wet-Tidies, which they performed from the Cape of Flirtda to the 67 degree and a half of Northerly latitude,being faid by fome to be the firft that difcovered Florida, Virginia, | and New-found-land. | | afigines de Gama his voyage to Aries ans rer T OO. SES = | 10 Criftopber coeliobie his asthe and laft - voyage tothe Wefl-Indies. - | Falper Corteriaglis a Portugal, his voyape — todifcover the North-wefi paflage, he dif- - covered Greenland, or Terra agree or Terra di Palpitedihoe: 2 ae (MIGMOL, 2ESOR,! Qui sy smb ins Velputius a Fiorenine imployed by the ae of Caftile and siceigi ee to dif- cover fe 2 31 7 } cover the Weft-Indies, named from him _ Seven’ year after coi America. * . 1506 Chriftopher Columba dyed. 508. | Henry the Seventh ‘dyed Aga the Two | : and twentieth. Henry the Eighth Ring of England. 1514. | Sebaftian Cabsta, the Son of Fobu mde further difcovery of all the North-eatt —_coafts from Cape Florida to New-found- land, and Terra Laberador. | OWS. 8 5 ieee ~ The voyage of Sir Thomas Pert Vice-Ad- ‘miralof Englaed, and Scbaftian Cabora, the Eighth of Henry the Eighth to Brafil; I St. Domingo, and St. Fuande puerto rico. | 20. Ferdinando Magellono a noble Portiagal _ fet forth to fail about the wosld, but was 1521 unfortunately flain. eee | The Bermuduz-Tfle 400 in ear be- ing 500 miles diltant from Virginia , and 3300 miles from the City of Lendon in the latitude 32 degrees and 30 minutes, difco- vered now accidentally by Fopn Rennes a Spaniard. — Z ee {1833+ (232) ATSDR es | Stephen G Jomez, his voyage to ee the North-weft paffage, fome will have it in Twenty five. | 7 | New-feund- land. sae nei one he drew Thorn, the Southern part but. 600 ~ Jeagues fromEngland. John de Ponce tox the Spaniard took pot: feflion of Florida. | 1528. | | ‘Rew or Mevis planted now according, ¢ to | forne writers. | 34% ; Galiformia wutcnis ebethe: land Or Continent, firft difcovered by the Spaniard. Nova Francia lying between the 40 and 50 degree of the Artic-poles Altitude dilco- vered by Faques Carthier in his firft voyage, _. the firft Colony planted in Canada. es 30. ‘The beer an policy began now in | Genevae — | | ites Sige Monfi eur ig Barvails . voyage to- Nov Francia, {ent to inhabite thofe parts. 1548. | Henry the rosie dyed. = Edward the Sixth re of England egan to eer . ee (233) - Sebaftisn Cabota made grand Pilot of ‘England by Edward the Sixth. 0. 155°: The (weating ficknefs i in England. 1553° Edward the Sixth fick: Mary Queen of England bee to Palen. Sir Hugh Willoughby , and allhis men in two Ships in his firft attempt to difcover — the North-eaft paflage, were in October frozen to death in the Haven called Arzima in Lap- : land. 1558. Oeeen Mary dyed. | Etizabeth Queen of England began tc to Raign N ovember the Seventeenth. | ee 2 oe Salvaterra a Spaniard his voyage to ae North-wett paflage. | : 15625 a9 Sir Fobn Hawkin’s firft voyage fo the | W eft-Indies. ce _ The firft expedition of the Fails into Florida, undertaken by Edt Ribald. * 1565 Tobacco firl bictghe: into England by Sir. Fobn Hawkins, butit was firft brought into ufe by Six Walter Rawleigh many years after. | 1566. g Tie Prneans’ ‘began to. appear in bua ; lands oe S4 - A 599: 4 / Elizabeth. mst — ‘Autbony Fenkinfon the firk of the Epglifs that failed throughthe Cafpien-Sca. | | is NGO ee selene Private Presbyteries now fir ft erected in England. ‘Sir Francis Drake's: firft voyage to the Weft-Indies. Si eS ks tS The Hollander feek for aid from Queen, 6 Sis Martin Frobifber the fist in Queen Elizabeths days that fought fcr the North- welt paflage, or the ftreight, or paffage to China, and meta incognita, in three feveral voyages, others will haveit in 1577. November the 17 Six Francis Drake began, his voyage about the world with five Ships, and 164-men fetting fail from Plimouth, putting off Cape deverde. The beginning of February, he faw no Land till the fifth of _ April, being paft the line 30 degrees of la- titude, and in the 36 degree entered the River Plates) whence he fell with the fireight of Magellan the 21 of Augujt, which with | ‘three ot -his Ships he pafled, having caft off the other two as impedimerts to him, ard the Marigold toffed from her General after paflage (235) _paflage was no more {eens The other com- manded by Capt. Winter thaken off alfo by _ Tempeft, returned thorow the Streights and — recovered England, only the Pellican, where= of himfelf was Admiral, held on her. courfe to Chile, Coquimbo, Gina. Palma, Lima, upon the weltof Americz, where he paffed the line 1579 the firft day of March, ' and fo forth until he came to the latitude _ 47. Thinking by thofe North Seas to have _.found paffage to Exgland, but fogs, frofts and cold winds forced him to turn his courfe South- welt from thence,-and came to An- chor 38 degrees fromthe line, where the. King of that Countrey prefented him his Net-work Crown of many coloured fea- - thers, and therewith refigned his Scepter of Pov cenaient unto his Dominion , which _Countrey Sir Fraxcis Drake took poffcflion of in the Queens name, and named it Novz Albion, which’ is thought to be os of the Hiland of Califormia. Sir Martin Frobifher’s ficou voyage. 7 tes Humpbrey Gilberr | a Devonfhire Knight — attempted ro difcover Virginia, but pat poult fuccefs, | | Sir Martin Frobifher’s third voyage. fo Meta incognita. Freezeland now called Weft- England, 25 leagues in “length, in the’ lati- tude of 57+ , Sir | (236). : Cie 'rancis Drake now pafled the Streights | : of Magellan i in the = called the Pelican. Zz | Sie Francis Drake ‘Giicovencd 3 News Al- sii in the South-Sea. | Others will have Sir Martin Probifver? § firft voyage to difcover the North-weft paf- tage tobethis year, TsO. From Nova Albion he fell with Ternate, one of the Ifles of Molucco, being courteou- fly entertained of fhe King, and from thence — he came unto the Tiles of Calebes, to Fave Major, to Cape buona foeranza, and fell with the coafts of Guinea, where crofling again the line,he came to the height of the Azores, and thence _ to England upon the third of November 1580. after three years lacking © twelve days, and was Knighted, and his — Ship laid up at Deptford as a monument of _ his fame. egy _ -_ The Provinces of Holland again » feck fer aid to the Queen of England. : | Lei 4s Sir 1 Humphrey Gilbert foblk potefion of Mew. found-land or Terra Nova, in the har-_ bour of St. Fobs , for and in the name of Que en 1237) Queen Elizabeth, it lyeth over apaintt the _guif of St. Lawrence, and is between 46 ia and: 53. degaecs of the North-poles Altituile. 8 | Sir W alter be ate Irelands, Sir Humphrey Gilbert attempted a planta- tion, in fome remote parts in New-Exgland. He ee in his return from New- _ Son: land. . | gees | | 1584. The woful year of tence fo ciiled by the Brethren, or Difciplinarians. | _ Sit Walter Rawleigh obtained of Queen | Elizabeth a Patent for the difcovery and peopling of unknown Countries, not actu- ally pofi.fled by any Chriftian Prince. Da- ted March 25. in the fix.and twentieth of herRaign, April the 27 fllouinee he fet forth two Barkes under che Command of Mr. Philip Amedas and Mr. Arthur Barlow, who atri- ved on that part of America, which that Virgin Quyen named Virginia, and thereof _. in her Majefties name took — poffifiion | Fuly the Thirteenth. | A 1595, > Cautionary Towns and Forts in_ the low-Countreys delivered unto Qa Eliza- pas _~ keths hands. Sir Richard Greenvile was Ment by Sir ce (238) | Walter Rawleigh April the Ninth, with a Fleet of 7 fail to Virginia, and was {tiled the General of Virginia. He landed in the Ffland of St. Fobx de porto Rico May the Twelfth, ‘and these fortified themfelves and built a Pinnaffe, &c. In Virginia they left 100 men under the Government of Mr. Ralph Lene, and others. | | Sir Francis Drake’s voyage to the W of. : Indies, wherein were taken the Cities of Sr. F 2g0,St. Domingo Cartagena, and the Town of St. Augujtine in Florida. Now (fay fome ) Tobacco’ was ft brought into England by Mr. Ralph ane outof Virginia. © | ~~ Others will have Tobacco to be fir | brought into England from Pere, by Sir Francis Deake's Mariners. a “Capt. Fobn Davies fult voyage to difco- ver the North-weft paflage , encouraged by Sir Francis sige ngham, ae a! Secre- tary Fe | 1596. | Mr. Thoma Candifh of Trimely, in the = } County of Suffulk Eig. began his voyage | inthe thip called the Defire, and two {hips more to the South-Sea through the Streights of Magellan ( and from thence round a- bout the circumference of the whole earth ) burnt and ranfackd in the entrance of Chile, Pere (239) = Peru and New-Spain, neat the “great Hand of Calformia in the South-Sea; and returned to Plimouth with a pretious booty 1583. September the Eighth, being the Third fince Magellan, that circuited the earth, our Eng- lifh voyagers were never out- Atript by any. _ The Natives : in Virgines pur 5 ie the Englif. » The fame year Sir Richard Greenvile Ge-. _neral of Virginia arrived there with three ‘fhips, bringing relief from Sir Walver Raves leigh to the Colony. | Mr. fobs Davies fecond voyage to difco- ver the N orth-welt paflage. 1587. | | Sir Walter Rawleigh fent another Colony of 150 perfons under the Government of Mr. Fobu White. . | Mrs Fobn Da vies thirdvoyage to difcover the North-weft paflage.- - Sir Francis Drake, with four fhips. took from the Spaniards one milion, aoe Ducats in one voyage... | 1588+ a. a Quetn Elizabeth sppoted her Authority againft the Brethrens. books and writings, — Sir Francis Drake Vice-Admiral of the Englifb Fleet, the Lord-Admiral beftowed — tl e order of a ‘hood meee Mr. Fobu Haw- C249) foe Hawkius, Martin Corkifber and others, Faly the Five and twentieth. ” The Spanifh Armado defeated, -conlifting of 130 fhips, wherein were 19290 Souldiers | 2080 chained Rowers,2630preat Ordnance, _ Commanded by Perezius Guzman. Dok = of Medina Sedoniaand under him Fobannes — Martinus Recaldus a great Seamany The Fleet coming, on like. a half-moon, the horns. of the front extending one from. ‘the. other: about 7 milcs afunder, it was preparing: 15: years, and was blackt to make it teem: more. terrible. , (ott cat "ee u4 gan 7 The: Portingal voyage under the cond of Sit Francis Drake. < Mr. Thomas Candifh now finithed his voy: | Be about the world, as fome age have j it. A ‘Now Tubeiod pe ule § in n England, as: fore will have ite © © i 159 1- as The fir Esglifontes shes ever wasin. git Bermuduze or Summer-Iflands was one Henry May. Ss - ; The voyage of Gapte Mesepiee: to” ihe Weft- -Indies, where upon the coaftof Hi- — Spaniola, he took and burnt three Towns, and Nineteen fail of thips and Frigats. Mr. Thomas Candilh lal voyage, in which he Se ae 15930 (241) eee oe ~ Sir Martin Frobifeer Commander of the Englifo Fleet flain in the quarrel of H. King , Of Navarr. — | ES | tes ___. The laft voyage of Sir Francis Drake, and Sit John Hawkins to the Weft-Indies with fix thips of the Queens, and twelve other - fhips and Barks containing 2400 men and — _ boyes, in which voyage they both dyed, and - Sir Francis Drake’s Coffen was thrown over board near Porto bello. ae Je eee ee ye eet Sit Robert Duddeleys voyage to Trinadad; and the coaftof Paria. i size Mr. Fames Lancafters voyage to Fernam- buck the port ‘Town of Olindz in Brazil, in which voyage he took 29 thips and Frigats furprized the faid port Town, and there found the Cargazon or fraught of arich _ Indian Carack, which together'with great abundance of Sugars and Cottons he brought from thence; lading therewith fifteen fail of tall thips and barks. | ; | pe ae The voyage of Sir Amias Prefton,&Capt. George Sommers tothe Weft-Indies, where they took, fackt, {poiled and abandoned the Ifland of Pzerto Santo,the land of Cock near scenes ae ae Marge- (242) Margarita,the Fort and Town. ae: Coro, the fiately City of St. Fago de leon,and the Town of Cumana vanforned, and Famaica entered. Sir Valter Ravleigh’s voyage now to Guiana, difcovered by him. In which voyage, he took Si: Fofeg 4 ‘Fown upon Trini- dadow —-, | “Sekine Sa aes doctrine publithed by ‘the Brethren. ; ; 9859680 5 i The voyage to Cadez, Sis Walser Roms: leigh Rere-Adimiral. The voyage of Sir Anthony S berley i inten~ ded forthe Iiland of St. Zomé, but pestorm- ed to St. Fago, Dominga, Margarita, along the coaft of Zerra Firma to the Tiland .of Jamaica, fitnated between a7 and 18 de- ‘grees of the North-poles elevation (which he conquered, but held it not long ) from. thence to the bay of Hondurus, 30 leagues up. Rio pitts: and homeward ae New: shen land. — | A597 a “The voyage to the Azores, Sir Walter Raleigh Capt. of the Queens Guard Rere- Admiral. . Porto Ra taken by the nak of Cumbers | land. 4 | e 1599 The Gand Canary pats = the Dutch Commander Vanderdoes. - 2 608, (243) 1600¢ The Colonies. in> Vi inginia fupplyed by publick purfe. | 16026 © Queen Elizabeth dyed: March the Four and twenrieth. | King fsmes began to Raign. The North parts of Virginie, i.e. Nere England further difcovered by Capt. Bartbo- lomew Gofnold, fome will have him to be the firft difcoverer. Capt. George Weywsonth’s voyage to dif- cover the North-weit paflage; ) Divers of our Exglifh in the North of England entered into s Covenant of wor- fhipping of God. 1603. | Ring Fames came into England, the fifth of April. Monficur Champlains voyage to Canada. November the feventeenth Sir Walter Rawleigh Arraigned and Condemned, (16046 | Monfieur dit Point and dx Mones voyage to Canada. | 1605. Monfieur di Point and da Monts remove the French habitation to Port-Royal. Games Halle’s voyage to Groenland, and to tind out the North-weft paflages | Tt 1606> C aaa) fy acetate | neta *: The Sows oat Main noite by the Engl He by lee ati ne King james, | Sir Foh # Popham, 8 eo Ss A Colony firft fess to New-England by Sir Foba Popham chief’ es of whe Com-. mon pleas. ear Fames-tovon founded in Virgilio ° ames Halls (econd voyage, to: ‘hind: out. the North-weft paffage. | Mr. Joba Knight his North- wel voyage, _ loft his thip funk by'the Ice. “A Colony fent to Virginia, called by the Tndians Wingandacoa, the bri = took. . firm poffeflion there. 7 | 1607- - Plimoth Plantation ' in New-England at- tempted. ‘Ste, Georges Fort built at the mouth of the River Sagadaboe, ander the Prefidency of Capt? George’ Popham and Capt. eon Gilbert, who built thé Fort. Fumes’ Halls third voyage to find out t the North: weft paffage. _ Hudfons tirht voyage ‘to find out the North-wett pallage. a ears) 1608. | Vi nein planted. * 7 A phe fent to New meee Lani ' | Capt. . | (245) ; | Capt. Fobn Smith fifhed now for Whales at Monhiggen. ee Hudfons {econd voyage to the North- weit meta Mermaid in the Sea-That there be fuch Creatures fee Plinie, Albertus Magnus | Ariftotle, Elian, Theodorus Gaza, Alexander Of Alexandria, Gorgins Trapozenfus, Ful. Sealiger, Stows Annals in Anno Dom. 1204. at Oreford in Suffolk, a Mareman taken. Tah - 1609, — : Sir Thomas Gales and Sir George Sammers going to Virginia, {uttered fhipwrack upon ‘the Berniudos-Ilands where they continued till r610. | Ucn Leh Sue ies & __ Hudfons third voyage to New-found-land difcovered Mobegan-River in New-England. The Duich fet down by Mobegan-River. 1610. z ‘Capt. Whitburns voyage to difcover the North-weft paflage, faw a Mermaid in the harbour of St. Fobus at New-found-land by the River fide. ae ee Hiudfons \aft and fatal voyage to difcover the North-weft paffar e, where he was frozen todeath = ae Dales-gift founded in Virginia. Sundry of the Englifh nation removed — out of the North of Exgland into the Ne- therlands, and gathered a Church at Leydex, where they continued until the year 1620. © ene ge at ee 161Te (2.46) | 1611. Six Thomas Dale Governour of Virginis. The famous Arch-Pirate. Peser Eaflon. 7 : 16120 Bide firft planted, and Mr. R. Moore fent over Govesnour, the fut that Planted a Colony in the Bermadus. James Halls fourth voyage to diftover the Nosth weft pallege,, was flain by the Savages. Capt. Buttons voyage to difcover the | North-weft paflage. } 16136. Port- Royal deftroyed by Sir Samuel Argol Governour of Virginia. . Mr. Fobn Rolf a Gentleman of good be- haviour fell in love with Pocahontas, the only Daughter of Powhaton a King in Vir- ginis. and married her, (he was Chriftened and called the Lady Rebecca, and dyed at ~Gravefend Anno Dom. 1617. Sit Lewit Stukely brought up ber Son Thomas Rolf. 1614. Bermudws planted turther. | Powbatons Daughter in Virginia Chriften- ed Rebecca. . Capt. Gibbins voyage to hed out the — North- weft pafl: ge. New: Netherlands began to be ol. nted ape (247) on es Sit Samuel Argol routed them. eee CPE | Sir Richard Harkins voyage into thofe parts of New-England. % - 1616, . | Capt. Gibbins {econd voyage to find out the North-weft paflage. A new fupply fent by Capt. Daniel Tucker tothe Bermudxs Pocahontas and Mr. Rolf her Husband went for England with Sir Thomas Dale, and arrived at Plimouth the 12 of Fuze. 1617. | Sit Walter Ramleighs lafiand unfortunate voyage to Guiana, where he took St. Thome theonly Town of Guisna pofl.ffzd by - che Spaniards, . 16:8. | The Comet or biazin,-ftar whofe motion was by fome obferved to be trom Eaft to Wilt. | 16 9- | Sir Walter Rawlcigh beheaded in the Pasliament yard. Bermudus-Iflinds divided into Tr. bis and Cintreds, to each tribe a Burrough. 1620 The Enghib in Vi atiis divided nto fe- - veral Burrougts. | ee 3 7 1620+ Banc? g ; 1620+ A _ Letters Patents’ obtained from King james for the Northern “part of Were et i. e. New-England. In July fundry of the Ey gli fet Gil from Holland fox Southampton. ~ Auguft the fift, they fet fail ‘from: Sian artpton for America, and arrived the Eleventh of November at Cape-Cod, where they entes red into a body politick, and chofe one Mr. Fobn Carver their Governour, calling: es - place. where they fettled Néw-Plimouth : Fanuary and February following was @ mor- tality among the Poe ech ges ot half the Company. Mis. Sufanna White dclnrevea of a Son at new-Plimouth , Chriftencd Peregrine he was the firft of the Englifh that was born in nem-England, and was afterwards the Licu- tenant of the Military Company of Marfh- field | in Plimouth Colony. ‘New- Plimonuth built, the frit Town in nen-England. Squanto an Indian in 1 coe Baglin carri- ed into Exgland by Mr. Hause. a Mafter of a Ship, but brought home again by Mr. Dor-. _ mer a Gentleman imployed by Sir Ferdinan- ‘do Girges fox er Sets a) qhist 37 | Deysywoshib b Snod jud ott 1621. baton dt April MssFobn ‘Garver... Govgeoong, of new -Plimouth dyed, and Mr. B FP slew Rr aude ford was chofen Governour.... .)*, » The Natives in Virginia made c about ae ie aaah Gib. 28 = bree hyo 2 ¥ ST | Ty edt wi b4O62 221704 + “The Fort at sica-Plantabbeds a great drought this Summer;from May the Tiird, till the middle of. Fuly there was no.Rain. Mr. Thomas Wefton Merchant fent. over 67 lufty men; who fettled themfclves.i ina part of the Maffachufers-bay 5, now | called Weymouth, The order of the Knights a Novaforia ordained by King: James, Hereditaric, they wear an.Orange tawny Ribbins . an. _ Sir\Ferdinando Gorges Patent for the { Big, vince of. Main in New-England. ee The Dutch. tortured the: Englif at, Au facies 1623. Weftons plantation. wholly ruined by their diforders.' — ° Mr. Robert Gorge, ‘Sir Ferdi oa Gobves Brother arrived in Plimonth, and began a Plantation of the Maffachufeis bay, having ‘Commiflion from the Council of New-Exg- land to be general Governour of the Cont - trey, cerrying over one Mr. Morred a Mi ni- : et, (250) fier, but being diourged, he returned for England. A fire at Plimiutb, which did confidera- ble dammage, Gevieat of the Inhabitants through difcontent and tatcalties removed into Virginta, Three thoufand Englifh now pon. the Bermudus ten Forts, and in thofe ten Forts 50 pieces of Ordnance. ~ 12% 1624.°°°"- ead The number of Magiftrates increated to five now at New- Plimoush. The firft neat Catfle canted: over inga New-England to New Plimourb was: — Heifers andaBull 4 1625. St. Chriftophers Iflcnd planted now iy the Evglife 25 leagues in compafs, a. great many ~ Jietle Rivers, in 17 degrees and 25° minutes. King ‘Fames dyed in 1625, and King Charles the firft began his wih aif fect ane {iven and twentieth. 162 The firft diftribution. of L. nds amnongtt “ che Inhabitants of New-Plimouth. | A Colony of Englifp ' planted upon the Mland of Barbados , which in a fhort cime increaled (0 20000, belides Negroes. | 1628. Mr. Fubit Eidicot edt in n New Enge land (251) land with fome number of people, and fet down fir by Cape-Ann, ata place called afterwards Glofter, but their abiding place was at Salem, whese they built the firk Town in the Maffachufets Patent. - The Exdians at the. Maffachufets, were at that time by ficknefs decreafed from 30000 tojoo. 2 7 Nevis or Mevis planted now by the Enge bifh 3 of 4000 upon If. ge PS (Mr. Morton of Merrimount taken prifoner by the Maffzcbufets, and fent into England. ¢ =. | 16290 - a Three fhips arrived at Salem bringing a great number of paffengers from Eagland s infeGtious difeafes araongft them. =» Mr. Endicoe-chofen Governour. | _ Mr. Higginfin, Me. Skelton and Mr. Bright Minitters arrived, upoa the fift of Auguft was the fir Church in the Maffzchu- sets Colony gathered at Salem, from which — year to this prefent year is 45 years, in the - compafs of thefe years in this Secs, aie hath been gathered forty Churches, and 120 Towns built in ali the Colonies of New- Englund. The Churchot new: Plimouts, was plant- ed in New-England cight years before o- thers. Tae book of Common-prayer pleaded | for (252) for, and praGtiled i in Maffachufets Colony by two of the Patentees, but was at laft prohi- bited by the Authority there. FUT Po GRGM E | "The Tenth of Fulys Fobn W, =ibinp EG and the Affiftants arrived in New-England, with the Patent for the Maffacbufers; they landed on the North-fide of Charles River, with him went over Mr. Thomas Duc®y, Mr. If tac Fobnfon ElquiressMr. Foba Wilfon, Mr. George Philips, Mr. Maverich ( the ‘Fa- ther of Mr. Samuel Maverich, one of' his Majefties Commillioners d Mr. Wareham Minitfters. ‘The paffage of the peoples im the: Eagle, and nine other Veffels to New-England came to 9500 pounds. The Swine; Goats,Shéep, Neat and Horfes coft ‘to ‘tranfport 12600 pounds, befides the price they colt. The Eagle was called the Arabellz in ‘honour of the Lady Arabella, wife to Tfaac Fobufon Elg, they fer down firf upon Noddles- spss the | Lady Arabella abode at Salem. sO Mr. Ifzac Fobnfon a Magiftrate fe the Maffachufets, and his Lady dyed foon —— their arrival. — Fobn Winthorp Etgy chofen Section. for the remainder of ‘the year, Mr. Thomas Dudley deputy: Governour, Mr. Simon Broad- Greet Secretary, » & Charles : (253) » Charlesstown, the fifitown built. 0% <5 Mr. Hi igginjonm Teacher oft Saleem Chueh: dyed. ya 11630. Hive! byshu Avery. harp winter in Naw Bgl 16316 f Cart. Fobu Smith Govetnour of Vingihio, and Admiral of Higasehees now ge in London. i | FJobn Winthorp Efq; cWisbais Govetifoie of the Maffachafers. Mr. Thomas: Byler Deputy Governour. Six Richard Salting tall: went for New England, {et down atdVaier-tomy. 3. ~ Five Churches gathered this year,’ ‘the firft: at ~Buftow’ Mr. Fobn Wailfon Paftor, the fecond at Water-town by “Mr. Philips, the third at Dorchefter by Mr. Mavericki'and Mti Warebam,the fourth at Roxbery by Mi.Ekor, the fifth at Linn by Mr. Stephen Batchelen their firft Teacher. . Dr. Wilfon gave 1000 sadund. to Mies England, with which hese fone rah eels with great Guns. : | 16326¢ | = se Fobu Winthorp choten Cement Me. : Thoms Dudley Deputy Governoure Chriffopher Gardiner defcended of, the = et of Gardiner Bfhop of Winchefter , - Knighted at Fersfalem of the Szpulches, atri- | > RGR) arrived in New-England with @ comely young woman his Concubine, fettled him- felf in the Bay of Maffacbufets, was rigidly ufed by the Magiftrates, and by the Magi- ftratcs of Resweieeraas t CO which place he retired. A terrible cold — in New-England. ‘Mr. Edward Winfos “cholen Governout of New-Plimowsh. The number of Migiftrates at New-— Plimouth increafe to feven. Aa infeCtious feaver amo ett the Inhabi- tants of New-Plimmtb, whercof many dyed. ; Mr. Fobn Wi athorp chofen Governour of the Maffscbufets Colony, Mr. Thomas Dudley Deputy Governour. Mr. Thomas Hooker Mr. Haius Hei Mr. Cotton Minitters arrivedin New-England all — jn one fhip, and Mr. Stowe and Mr. William Colier a liberal Benetadtor to the Gelony: of New- Plimouth. ss Mr. Fobn Cotton chofen. Teacher of the firft Church at Bofton. A Church at Cambridge gathered by Mr. Thomas Hooker their firtt P itior. Great twarms of firange flyes up and down the Countrey, which wis @ orefag: of the following eer & 1634. (255) 1634. ae Mr. Thomes Prince chofen Governous of’ New-Plimouth. _ Mr. Thomas Dudley chofen Governour of the Maffachufers Colony , and Mr. Taal Ludlow Deputy -Governour. The Countrey now was really placed in - a pofture of War, to be in readinefs at all times. In the Spring a excat fi f cknefs among the Indians, by the {mall pox. : The Pequets War with the Narraganfets. ’ “2 Skelson Paftor to the Chusch at Salem ye 2 Mr. Gobn Nortex, and Mr. Thomas naw A herd arrive in New- England. A Church gathered at Ipfwich, the ft Paftor Mr. Nasbaniel Ward. AChurch gathered at Newberry. _ Capt. Stone turn’d Pirate, at the Dateb plantation. The cruel Maffacre of Capt. Stone and Capt. Norton at Connelficut-River, the P. quiet Indians. 1635. Mr. Fobn Haines chofen Governour of the Maffachufers Colony, Mr.Richard Belling- bim Deputy Governour. | Mr. Zachary Sims arrived in New-Exg- land, and Mr. pnee Bellingham. Tis (C256) This year Eleven Minifters arrived in New- England. Mr. Norton Teachiet at Ipfwich, Mr. Riche avd Mather Teacher at Dorebelter. | Sir Henry Vain’ Junior, afrived in’ New “England, Mx. Richard Saltingftal, Sir Rich- ie Salting {tal’s Son, Mr. Roger Harlacken- den, and Hugh Peters. | _ Hugh Peters chofen Paftor of 5 alem. ~ A’ Church at Hartford in the Colony of fie. now gathered. ° Mr. William Bradford chofen Gavernour of New-Plimouth. "Capt. pad Gorges , Sit F erdinando “Gor ges Nephew fent over Governour of the province of Main, then called ¢ new Sommer feifhire. Saturday the 15 of Augutt , an ehirtieah or mighty flormof wind and sain, which did much hurt in New- England. Sar (ere Siz Henry Vane Janior, Governout of the ae Colony, Foba , Winthorp Elgs Deputy Governour, Mr. Roger ng Nese Téader of their military Forces. Mr. Edward Winflow a Worce(lerfbire man sborn,, chofen Governour of uew- -Plimouth — Colony. 7 G oinethiceit ean planted. | i _ Mr. Febu Oldbam murthered in his Barque by: the: Indians of Block: Yes» A (257) A ‘Church gathered, at Hingham , Mr. Peter Hubbord arrived 1 now in New- England ‘Teacher at Hingham. & Mr. Flint, Mr. Carter, ‘Mr. ‘Walton, Mi- nifters ssiaeed now in New-England. Mr. Fenwich, Mts Partrick, Mr. Nathaniel Rogers; and Mr. Samuel White, arrived now in New-England.. ~ _ A General Court held at Bofton” againfk Mus. Hutchinfon the. American Jezabel, MAuguft the 306 where .the. opinions and errors of Mrs. Hutchinfon and her Affociats 80 errors were condemned, A Counfel held at New-town about the fame bufinels Ogober the se and at Bofton again. | | 1637» Mr. William Bradford chofen Governour of New-Plimouth Colony. _. ns Mr. Fobn Wenthorp choien Governour of | Maffachufets Colony , Mr. Thomas Dudley | chofen Deputy Governour. - New-baven Colony began now, Mr. Eatoz Gukis Governour, Joba Davenport Paftor. Mr, Hopkins arrived now in New-Eng- land. A fecond Church ‘gathered at Dedbam, Mr. Fubn Allen Paftor. ..; The Pequets wars, in which war rhe Exes Se flew and took prifoners about 700 Indi= Gns, (258) ans, amonglt which 1 3 of their Sachems to the grear- error of the Natives, they fene the male childsen of the Pequets to the Bermudus. This year the Antihonaban and Faniiliftical errors were broached in the march f e{pi= cally at Bofton. A Synod called, shih condemned thefe errors. | A General Court held 9¢ Seistinin againt M:s. Hutchinfon and’the eet. : Mrs. Hutchinfon and others banithed by the Magittrates of the Maffachufers Co- lony. A hideous pictiites born at. pied of one Mrs, Mary Dyer. Sir Henry Vane and the Lord ie returned for England. . The Mintfiers that went for New-England chicfly in the ten firf? years, ninety four, of which returned for England twenty feven, dyed in the Countrey thirty fix, yet alive 1 the Countrey thirty one. The number of thips that enasfooned paflengers to New-England, in thefe.times was 298 {uppoted ; men, women and chil- dien as near as can be ghefled 21200. The Spaniards took the Ifland of Provi- Mewce,onc et the Summer- lands from ‘the engi. | | 1638. C259.) 1638. Mr. Thomas Prince. chofen Governous oF new Plimouth Colony. : Mr. Fohn Winthorp chofen Goveroour of the Maffachuféts Colony, Mr. Thomas Dudley Deputy Governour, © A Church now gathered at Waymouth, Mr. Gennot Paftor, Mr, Newman fucceeded. Mr: Thomas Thatcher: . Three Englifh men put to death at Piz reouth for robbing and murthering an Indian near Providence. _ Fune the {ccond a great and terrible earths quake throughout the Countrey. = Samuel Gorton of Warwick fhire, apeftie lent feducer , and biafphemous Atheift, the Author of the Se@&s of Gortinians, bas nifh’d Plimouth plantation, whipr and ba- nifhed from Road- Efland, banifht the Maffz- chixfers Colony.. Now they fet up a Printing. iets at Bofton in the Maffachufets. ‘This year came over Mr. Willian Thomp= fon, Mr. Edmund Browa,Mr. David Frisk. Mr. Foba Harvard, the founder of Har- — vard Colledge at Cambridge in the Maffechu- Le fets Colony, deceafed,, Gave 700 pong to theereGting of if, Ay te ee es er" Mr. Wiliam Panis chofeti epee of new-Plimouth Colony. Mr. Fobn Winthorp choten Governour 4g the Maffachufets Colony, Mr. Thomas Dudley - Deputy Governour. Mr. Higginfon Teacher at, Salem Church, Skelton pattor, and an exhorting Elder. This was the firft Church gathered in the: Maffa- cbufets Colony, and it increafed to 43 Churches in joynt Communion ‘with one - another, and in thefe Churches were about 7450 fouls. | Mr. Herbert Pelham now arrived in New- : England. Yeon A.Church gathered at Haaptioe’ 5 Mr. Daulton pafior, end Mr. Batcheler Teacher. “Another Church gathered at Salisbary. ‘Gaober the Eleventh and Twelfth , the Spanifp Navy was let upon by the Hollariden in the Downs, they were in all 60 tail, the Spaniards were beaten. | Avery fharp winter in New- Englands : SPE Ore MrT Wiliam Bradford chofen Govertiour of uev-Plimouth Colony. “Mr. Thomas Dudley. chofen Goveair of the Maffachufers Colony, and’ Mr. Richard Bellingham Deputy Governour, : - . i id : © Ps Ps . Civil (261) _ Civil wars began in England. 3 Mr. Huet Minifter arrived in New-Eng? land, Mr. Peckand Mr. Saxton. A Church gathered at Braintree , Mn. Wheelright paftor. Mr. Henry Dunfter arrived in Neww-England, 1641. Mr. William Bradford chofen Governour of new-Plimouth Colony. | | Mr. Richard Belingham chofen Gover- | nour of the Maffachufets Colony, Mr. F obit : Exdieot Deputy. | A Church gathered at Gloeefter in, the Maffachufets Colony. A tharp winter in New-England, the ae bours and falt bayes frozen over fo as_paffa- ble for Men, Horfes, Oxen and Carts five wecks. 1642, Mr. William Bradford chofen Governou: of new-Plimouth Colony. Mr. Fobn Winthorp chofen Governour of the Maffachufees Colony, john Endicot Efqs. Deputy Governour. This Spring Cowes dnd Cattle fell from 22 pound a Cow, to fix, feven and eight pound a Cow of a fudden. ~ - A Church now. gathered at Meche’ the 5 Medleceefee Colony. : | : Ae ee ree Thisé (262) Thirteen able Minifters now at this time in uew-Plimouth JurifdiGion. Harvard-Colledge founded with a pubs lick Library. | — Minifiers bred in New-England , and ( excepting about 10) in Harvard-Colledge one hundred thirty two 3 of which. dyed in ths Countrey Ten, now living cighty one, semoved to Egland torty one. June Wars ick Parliament pees Mr. Wiliam wade chofes Governout ~of the #ew-Plimouth Colony. Mr. Fohu Winthorp chofen Governour of the Maffachufets Colony, Mr. Joba Endicot D:puty Governour. May ro. the firft Combination of the four united Colonies, viz. Plimouth, Maffa- chufets, Connecticns, ane new-baven. 644. | Mr. Edwaid Wi ‘flow chofen Govemout of #ew-Plimoutrh Colony. Fobu Endieot Efg; chofen ineael: of the Maffachufets Colony, Fobn Wi insborp E{g; Deputy Governour. A Church gathered at Haveril. Mr. Roger Harlackendin dyed about this time. ~ A&A Church gathered at Reading in New- England. 3 A Church gathered at Wenham, both in | “the megeciate siege The — (263) | __ The Town of Eaftham ere@ed now by fome in Plimouth. ee : = 1648. : M:. William Bradfond chofen Governour Of new-Plimouth Colony. Mr. Thomas Dudley chofen Governour of the Maffacbufers Colony, and Mr. Fobn Win- thorp Deputy Gove:nour, Mr. Fobn Endicot major General. sae ee | A Church gathered at Springfield. 646 | 1646. a Mr. William Bradford chofen Governour Of ner-Plimouth Colony. : Mr. Fobn Winthorp chofen Governour af the Maffzchufers,Mr, Thomas Dudley Deputy and Mi. Fobn Endicot major General. — Two Suns appeared towards the latter ‘end of the year. ‘ This year they drew up a body of Laws for the well ordering of their Common- wealth (as they termed it ) printed in 1648. | Z “4 | Three men of War arrived in xew-Pli- mouth harbour under the Command of Capt. Thomas Cromwell, richly laden, a muti- ny amongft the Sea-men, whereby one man was killed. = | _ The fecond Synod at Cambridge touching. the duty and power of magifirates in mat- ters of Religion. ae Lol (264) | - Secondly ; the nature_ and power of tious Mr. Fobn Eliot firft preached to the Lidisns in theis Native language, the principal In- firuments of converting the Indians, Mr. Fobn Eliot Senior, Mr. Fobu Eliot Junior, Mr, Thomas Mayhew, Mr. Pierfor,Mr. pes Mt. ames, and Mr. Cotton. ne 4 Mi. William Bradjrd chofen Governot of wew-Plimouth Colony. Mr. Fobn Winthorp chofen Géetiidek of the Maffachufets Colony, Mr. Thomas Dudley Deputy Governour, and Mr. Fobn Endicot “Major General. Now Mr. Thomas Hooker paftor of the Church at Hertford dyed. | | The Partars over-run China. — -: 1648. M:. William Bradford. chofen Governour of new Plimouth Colony. Fobn Winthorp chofen Gove. nour of the | Meflachufets colony, Mr. Thomas Dudley Deputy Governour, Mr. Fobu Endicot major General. — A Cnurch gathered at Andouer. | AChurch gathered at Malden Mr. Sarjant palior. A fecond Church’ gathered at Boftom A third Synod at. Cambridge publifhing the iow of Difcipling. — faite (265 ) Fan. 30. King Charles the fir murde- red. | ce - Eharles the Second began his Raign. Their Laws in the Maffachufets colony ‘printed. | | 1649- | '. Fobn Wintborp E’q, Governour of the Maffachufets colony March the 26 deceafed. Mr. William Bradford cholen Governour of new-Plimouth. | Mr. Fobn Endicot chofen Governour of the Ma(fachufets colony. Mr. Thomas Dudley Deputy Governour, Mr. Gibbons major General. ~ Aninnumerable Company of Caterpillars in fome parts of New-England deftroyed the fruits of the Earth. ~ | — Auguft the 25 Mr. Thomas Shepherd Paftor of Cambridge Church dyed. Mr. Phillips allo dyed this year. | 1650. | Mr. William Bradford chofen Governour of new-Plimouth colony. | _ Mr. Thomas Dudley chofen Governour of the Maffachufets colony, Mr. Fobn Endicot Deputy Governour, Mr. Gibbons major Ge- neral. SES, oS ‘A great mortality amongft children this year in New-England. Ys : ; U 4 1651 bas . (266) 168%. Mr. William ABs chofen Governour of wew-Plimouth colony. _ Mr. Fobn Exdicot chofen Governour of the Maffachufets colony, Mr. Thomas Dudley meaty Governour, Mr, Gibbons Major’ Ge- neral, ~ -. "The City Bilbo totally cover’d with wa- ters for15 days, 16 foot above rhe tops of the highett houfes, the lofs was very much to the whole Kingdom,. there being their flock of dryed fith and dryed Goat the ge- neral dyet of Spain, Barhbadis furrendred to the Parliament, | its longitude 322, latitude 13 degrees, 17 or 18 miles in compaf{s, Hugb Peters and Mr. Wells, and Gobe: Ba- ker returned into England. ’ T6520 Mr. William Bradford chofen Governour of mer-P limouth colony. Mr. Fobn Endicot chofen Garernont of the M:ffachufets colony, Mr..Thomas Dudley Deputy Governopr, Mr. Gibbons, major Ge- eral, Fobn Cotton Teacher of Bofton Church dyed, a Comet was {een at the time of his ficknefs hanging. over New Enghent which ee R0F DUE foon qitcr his seas , | ERE CBT The Spirits that took Children in England, — {aid to be fet awork firft by the Parliament, and Hugh Peters as chick pens Adior or Procurer. : 1653; Oliver Cromyell Usurped the Title of Protector December the Sixteenth. Mr. Wiliam Bradford cholen Governour _ of new-Plimouth Earp Y : Mr. Thomas ieee chofen cseinoe of the Maffachufets colony,Mr: Fobu Endicot Depury Governour, Mr. Gibbcts major Ge- neral, Mr. Thomas Dudley Governour of the Miffachufers colony dyed, aged abouta7 years at his houfe at Ro xebury, Fuly 31. : _ a preat hire at Boffon} in New- Englatd. 1654 Me, Wiliam Bradfo: d ‘chofen. Governour | of new-Plimouth colony. | - Mr: ‘Bellingham Governour , | see Deputy: ; Major Gencral Jie dyed this ears “Me: William Bregfoed chofen Goycitionr. of egy-Plimouth colony. Mr. Fobn Endicot Governour of the Maffachufets, Bellingham Deputy. | damage taken by the Englihs 1656» (268) 1656. eS oa General abies taketh’ Spanifh prizes, Mr; William Bradford chofen Governour of new-Plimouth colony, Mr. John Endicot Governour of the Miffachufets, Mr. Francis | Willowby Deputy. | 1657: Mr. Thomas Prince chofen Governour of zew-Plimouth colony. M:. William Bradford now dyed. Mr. Fobn Endicot Governour, Bellingham Deputy. — Mr. Theophilus Eaton Governour sis New- baven colony dyed. Fifth monarehy-men rebel]. — The Quakers arrive at new- Plimonths. 1658, Oliver Cromwell dyed Septembeb the third: Richard Cromwell {ct up. | Mr. Thomas Prince chofen Governour of | yew-Plimouth colony. | Mr. Fobn Exdicot chofen Governour of the Maffachufets, Bellingham Deputy. — _A great Farth-quake in New-England. _ Mz. Ralph Partrick minifter at Ruxbary now deceafed, -—-Fobn Philips of Marfofeld flain bye chua- : der and lightning. ices Jay Mt. Thomas Prince cholen Governour of | Eley Plimoxth os | 3 Mes Mr. Fobr | ee pee aS Mr. John Endicot chofen Governout cE the Maffachufets colony. The Quakers opinions vented | up and | Bows the Countrey. oe Mr. Henry Dunfter firtt Prefi dent of Har- a gard-Colledge deceafed. Richard Cromwel' ended May the feeb: 2 The Rump Parliament December the fr — _and twentieth put down. | William Robiufon, Marmaduke’ Ssevenfen, : and Mary Dyer Quakers of Rhd Iftsd ien- tenced to fuffer death by Mr. Fobn Endicot Governour of the Maffachufers colony , which accordingly was executed! within ‘a day or two, the prifoners being guarded by Capt: Faimer Oliver with 200 Souldiers to | the place of Execution, where the two men were hanged and the woman repricved at the Gallows and banifhed; | | 1660. | ay Mr. Thomas Prince chofen Governour of new-Plimouth colony. abn Endicot cho{én Governour of the Maffacbufets colony, Mr. Bellingham D: sputy. fames Pierce flain by eS at new Plimouth. ) May the 29 King Charles the Second in turned into England. * : Fune the 20 adamnable cheat like t to have been put upon England Py a Brief for Nea- = | Lng. 278) England, which as it appcared was ptodticed before the King came in, but not printed . (by Mr. Leach in Shoe-lane ) till Fune, pretending that 18 ‘Turks-men of War the a4 of Fanuary 16%, landed at a Town, called Kingsword ( siding to Charles-town) “three miles from Bofton, kill’d 40, took Mrs Sims minifter prifoner, wounded him, kill’d his wife and three of his little children , carried him away with 57 more, burnt the ; Town, carried them to Argier, their lofs amounting to 12000 pound, the Turk de- -— manding 8000 pound ranfom to be paid ~ within 7 moneths. Signed by Thomas Mar- gets , Edward Calamy, William Fenkin , William Vincent, George Wild, Fofeph Caryl, Fobnu Menord, William Couper, Thomas Man- | ' ton Minifters. : Hugh Peters put to death ‘the ve of Otober. Thomas Vener a Wine-Cooper - hang’d drawn and quartered Ian.19. | LOGI oe = 8 The fifth Monarchyemen cite at T ido. Mr. Thomas Prince chofen | Governour of | neve Plimouth colony. Mr. Fobn Endicot chofen Governour of the Maffachufets colony, Mr. Bellingham Deputy. oe Atherton now dyed in New-Eng: land, 16626. \ (271) Sete eke ae Sir Henry Vane beheaded, Fune she Ie Mt. Thomas Prince chofen Governour of | new-Plimonth colony. Mr. Fobn Endicot chofen Governour of | the Maffachufers colony. Fanuary 26 and the 28 Earthquakes in New-England, 6 or 7timesinthefpaceof Three on 1662 | ae ” Fobn Baker unduely called Capt. Boker hang’ d at Tiburn, December the 11 of | February. , : | 96636 | Mr. Thoma Prince chofen Governour of 7 new=Plimonth colony. Mr. Fobn Endicot chofen Governour of the Maffachufets colony. | | Mr. Willowby Deputy Governour and Mr. Thomas Leveret major General. April the fifth Mr. Fobn Norton Teacher at the firft Church in Bofton dyed fuddenly, Mr: Samuel Newman Teacher at Rebobeth in New-Englandnow dyed. Mr. Samuel Stone Soackes of Hansford Church in New-England, now dyed alfo. Several Earth: quakes this year in News Englands Mr. Charles (272 ) ' Charles Ghanvie batchelor of Divinity, and Prefident of Hesare One in | New- England. 1664. Mr. Thomas Priace chofen fener of new-Plimouth colony. (Mr. Fobn Endicot chofen Governour af the Maffachufets colony,Mr.Francis Willowby — Deputy. Governour, Mr. Thomas Leveret Major General. A May the 20 the Kings eine loners ars xived in New-England , viz. Sir Robert Carr, Colonel Nicols, Colonel Cartwright and Mr. Samuel Maverich, with whom came - one Mr. Archdale as Agent for Mr’. Ferdinan- do Gorges, who brought tothe colony in the province of Main, Mr. F. Gorges order from his. Maely Charles. the Second, under his manaal, and his .Majetties Letters to the. Maflachufets concerning the fame, to be re- fored unto the quict poficflion and enjoy- ment of the faid province in Nem- England, and the Government thereof, the which duzing the civil Wars in England the Maffz- ebufers colony had mois and_( by help of a Fatobs ftaff )mott thamefully. encroached upon Mr. Gorges rights and priviledges.. The 29 of Augujt, the Manadaes, called Novede Belgique, ot New Netherlanis, their chief Town Nemadmietay now called New- | (273) New-Yorke, Surrendered up unto Sir Ro- bert Carr and Colonel Nichols his Majefties | Commiflioners"s thirteen days after in Sep-— tember the Fost and Town of Araniz now : called Albany , twelvedays after that, the Fort and Town of Awfapba, then ep la Weare Cafile man’d with Dutch and Sweeds, — the three firft Forts and Towns being buile upon the River Mobegan, orheewite: called. Hudfons River. The whole Bible Tranflated into the Jy: a dian- Tongue, by Mr. Fohx Eliot Senior, was _ now printed at Cambridge in New-England. December a great and dreadful Comet,or blazing-ftar appeared in the South-eaft in New- England for the {pace of three moneths, which was accompanied with many fad effects, great mildews blafting in the Coun< trey the next Summer, | | 1665. | Mr. Thomas Prince chofen Governour of new-Plimouth colony. Bi Mr. Fobn Endicot chofen Governour. of 3 the Maffachufets colony,Mr.Francis Willawby Deputy Governour, Mr. Leveret. Major Gee 7 neral. ’ Two Comets or blazing-ftars scpoeree in 4 moneths time in England, December 16648 and in March following. — Mr. Fobn Endicot Governour of the Malt stig (294) > < Sachufers colony deceafed, Mareh the three and twentieth, — = Capt. Davenport kilPd with lightning as he lay on his bed at the Ga file by Bojton in New-England, and feveral woundeds — | _ Wheat exceedingly bl lafted and mildewed ~ in New-England. A thoufand foot fent this. year ep the French King to Canadz. | Colonel Cartwright in his voyage. for England was taken by the Datch. — The Mle of Providence taken by the Englifh Buchanetrs, Puerto Rico taken and plundered by the Englifo Buchaners and abandoned. (1666. ee Mr. Thomas Prince choftn Governour of the Maffachufets colony. Mr. Richard Bellingham chofen Gomienben | of the Maffachufers colony, Mr. Francis Willowhy Deputy Governours Mr. Leveret Major General. | Sts Chriflopbers taken by the Freneb. Fuly the Lord Willowby of Parham catt away in a Hurricane about the Caréhby- Iflands. ~The {mall pox at + Bolton i in the Moffachn- | fets colony. Three. kil?d in a moment by a blow of Thunder at Sais inte in. New+Plimouth cglonys (275) | oloiiy, and four at Pafcatamay colony,, and — divers burnt with lightning, a great whisl- wind at the fame time. | This year allo New- England had ‘caft away and taken Thirty one Veffels, and fome in 1667. | The mildews and IE of Com. ‘fill | continued. | | | 1667 er Mrs Thornas Prince chofth, Governour of New-Plimcith colony. ©. Mr Richard Bellingham chofen Governour of the Maffzchufets colony,Mr. Fr. Willew- by Deputy Governour = and Mr. Leveret major General. Six Robert Carr dyed next day after his _ arrival at Brijtow in England Fane the firts Several vollies of fhot heard difcharped in the Air at Nantafeot two miles from ‘Bofton in the’ Maffachuefets colonys Mr. Fobn Davexport chofen, paftor of- the Independent Church at Bofton: In March there appeared a fign in the ‘ Heavens in the form of a Spear, pointing dirc@ly tothe Weft. Et | Sir Fobn Harman defeated the French : Fleet at the Caribbess Mr. Fobn Wilfon Paftor of Bofton Charch in the Maffachafers cane 37 ycars now | x ‘ yed, : (276) dyed, aptd 79, he was Paftor of that Church three years before Mr. Cotten, twen-. ty years with him ° ten. years with Mr. Cheon four years after him. — | ~ SEOGS, USea : Mr. Thomas Prince chofen. Governout of New-Plimouth colony. Mr. Richard Blingbam chofen Gover nour of the Maffachufets colony, Mr. Fr. W illowby Deputy Governour, and: Mr. Le- _ veree major General. » | Mr. Samuel Shepherd Peltor of Rumley Church dyed. April the 24) Mr. Beant F lias Teacher at Bratittry dyed. July the Ninth Mr. Siaieads “Mitchel Paltor of the Church at ‘Cambridge dyed, he was born at Halifax in Torkefhire in. England, and was brought up’ in” aged io Colledge at Cambridge in New-England. — Fuly the Fifteench, nine of the clock at night afi Eclipfle of the moon, till after Eleven darkned nine wget sige yaaa five minutes. Fulythe Se renteciiia g at Speima Cati whale Fifty tive foot long, thrown up at Winter-barbiar by ou in the Province | of Maine) 39 GMb a tate i. ee April the Thied, Fryday_ an Enathquae in Nen-Ex gland. ea O0p- G77) = 1669. eres _ Mr. Thomas Prince chofen Governour of Plimouth colony. Mr. Richard Bellingham Chote” ieaivet nour of the Maffachufets. colony, Mr. Fr. Willowby Deputy Governour , Mr ‘Leverte ‘major General. © __ Mr. Oxenbridge chofen. Paftor of the Independent Church at Bofton- | Pa wonderful burning of the moun- tain Etna, or Gibella in Cicilia March. 1670. M’, Thomas Prince chofen Governor of — New-Plimouth colony. Mr. Richard Belingbam chofen- amr. nour of the M. if[achufets colony, Mr. Fr. Willivby Deputy Governour, Mr. Eeveret major General. Mi. Fr.. Willowby Deputy Governout aa now dyed. _. Ata place called Kenebuneb, wohtch iS in the Province of Main, not far, from the River- fide, a piece of clay ground was thrown up by amineral vapour ( as was — fuppofed ) over the tops of high oaks that grew between it and the River, into the River , flopping the courfe thereof,’ and leaving a hole Forty yards {quare, wherein | x2 were | (278) were Thoufinds of clay bullets.as big ag mufquet bullets, and pieces of clay in fhape “like the barrel of a mufguet. The like accident fell out at Cafeo, One and twenty milesfrom it tothe Ealtward, much about | the fametime; And fith in fome ponds in the Countrey thrown. up dead. upon the banks, fuppofed likewife to be kilf'd with | mineral vapours. — A woncerful number of Herrins caf up on thore ar nigh water in Black- point- - Har- _bour in the province of Main, fo that they might have gone half way the leg in them for amile cogether. Mr. Thatcher chofen Paftor of the Pref. Patera Church at Baton. =. 1671. Thomas Prince Governour of new P an colony. Mr. Richard Bellingham chofen Gover- nour of the Maffachufers colony, Mi. Leveret i D- Pury, and mayor General. __ | Elder Pew now dyed at Bofton, the Englifh troubled much with griping of the guts, and bloudy Flux, of which feveral dyed, -OGober the Two and twentieth a Ship calledthe flying Falcon of Amfterdam, ar- rived at Dover, having been out fince the 4 tft of January 1669. and been in the a | ca§ (279) - Scas in the latitude of 50 degrees, cone failed: 12900 Dutch leagues, the mafter told us he made main land,.and difcovered two Iflands never before difcovered , where were men all hairy, Eleven foot in height. = {O7t. | Mr. Richard Bellingham chofen Goverment | of the Maffachufets colony , Mr. Leveret Deputy, and major General. Mr. Richard Belingbam Goren of the Maffachufets colony now deceafed, © | 1674. - Thomas Leveret chofen Governoure — . Mr. Simons Deputy Governour. “Books Perse Sr Gil €s Widdoibs. ve at the Green: al oe in. Sr. Pauls-¢ bureh- ge fiers i Bilin Camtab Maal 4 oR . Homes his Mife cellanea , watiting of : Dp sree Treaties, 1.Exercitations touch- 5 taiythe. glorious Kingdom of Chrilt on carsh yet to come.s2. A review, of 508 a treth enquiry after Gog and Magog, where to find them. 3. Some glimple of Tfracls call approaching, . from Scripture ‘in a ‘bricf Chronologte “Of isyears lat palt of the difpures of 300 Jewith Rabbics. Mr. Davifes three books belonging to an Unfamity in Churches, in which the chict things, of the laws of Nuture and. Nattons, and of the D.vine Jaw, concern- “ing, the confiltency of “the Eectefiaftical Eftate, wich the civil are unfolded. A Book of the five fenies,in copper cuts. In Quart, pS ibbs Ligtit from Heaven in 4 Treatif: Se Mr. Barions Remedy for Londons languith- ing Trade. : The younger Brothers Apologie , for the. Fathers = power in difpoting of his_ Land to his So? ,90N5, or any of chem. » Oda- Bie Pe tte OEauar ... | ce. hae Gofpel. glafs,. Reprefenting. the mifcarriages of Englifh Proteffors, —-. Mr. Gales Anatomy. ot. Anfidelity. ee ee Mr. Preftons Dircétions for true. ‘palling, with Copies of Letters, Bills of Parcels, Bills of Exchange,Bills of Debe, ; Receipts, with Rules and helps thereunto. ea M. Val.Martialis Spettaculorsem Liber , Pasa phrafed.. The true Englif Intereft, or an accoune of the chief national Improvement, in fome . political obfervations, demonfirating am Yofallible Advance of this Nation to infi- nite, wealth and greatnels » Trade and -» Populacy, with Imployment, and Prefer- _ ment forall perfons,by Carew Reynel Eig; New- -Englands. Rarities dilcovered in Birds, Beatts, ‘Fithess. S: ‘epents, and plants of that Coantrey 3 Together with the Phy- fical_and Chirurgical Remedies, “Foti with the Natives. conftantly. ufe ‘tocure _.. their diftempers, wounds and (ores. Allo a.defeription of an Indien Squa, ‘inal _ her Bravery 5. witha Poem NOt improper- — ly confer’d upon. her, Mlofrated with cuts, by F. F ffelin, Git. — Int2. and 24. Xe, Ds. Collets Devotions, or the Chrifians morning and ¢ evening Sacrifice digelted into ,, or | into prayers sand. tneditations, with (ome {hort dire@tions for a godly life. os How to revive the Golden Age, with the true caufes of the want of money, and - good Trading in thefe Kingdoms, and how yet to Remedy them, and to make thefe Kingdoms exceed all others in Rich- es and power, Humbly arene to the - Parliament. Adooviifenent 6 Dr. Buckworths Lozenges, fxivions for the cure of Confumprions, Coughs, Catarrhs, Afthmas,Phthificks, and all other difeafes — incident tothe Lungs, colds new and old, Hoarfnefs, fhortnefs. of breath, and Rop- pages of the Stomach 3 Alfo a Soveraign Antidote againft the’ Plague, His Homogencal Pill, a Dr. Lockers Univerfal Pill. Conftant. Rbodocanaces Spirit of Salts Spanith cafes for Bibles, and Common- Prayer of all forts, fold by Giles Widdows — Book-feller at the Green-Dragon in Ste . Pauls: Bes cae! 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