This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... -- the idle Prouerbe is, Travellers may lye ly authorise, and fo may take too much finfull. liberie that way. Yet I may fay of my felfe as once Nehemiah did in another cafe: shall fuch 4 Man A* J lye? No verily: It becommeth not a Preacher of Truth to be a Writer of Falfhood in any degree: and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1908 edition. Excerpt: ... -- the idle Prouerbe is, Travellers may lye ly authorise, and fo may take too much finfull. liberie that way. Yet I may fay of my felfe as once Nehemiah did in another cafe: shall fuch 4 Man A* J lye? No verily: It becommeth not a Preacher of Truth to be a Writer of Falfhood in any degree: and therefore I haue beene-carefull to report nothing of ItervEtiglwd but what I haue partly feene with mine owne Eyes, and partly heard and enquired from the Mouthes of verie honeft and religious perfon, who by liuing in the Countrey a good fpace of time haue had experience and knowledge of the ftate thereof, & whofe teftimonies 1 doe beleeue as my felfe. Firft therefore of the Earth of New-England and all the appurtenances thereof: It is a Land of diuers and fundry forts all about Mafathulets Bay, and at Charles Riuer is as fat blacke Earth as can be feene any where: and in other places you hauea clay foyle, in other grauell, in other fandy, as it is all about our Plantation at Salem DEGREESfox fo our Towne is now named, Tfal. 76.2. The forme of the Earth here in the fuperficies of it is neither too flat in the plainnefle, nor too high in Hils, but partakes of both in a mediocritie, and fit for Pafture, or for Plow or Meddowground, as Menpleafe to employ it: though all the Countrey be as it were a thicke Wood for the generall, yet in diuers places there is much ground cleared by the IndianstzxA efpecially about the Plantation: and I am told that about three miles from vs a Man may ftand on a little hilly place and fee diuers thoufands of acres ofgroundasgood as need to be, and not a Tree in the lame. It is thought here is good Clay to make Bricke andTyles and Earthen-Pots as needs to be. At this inftant we are fetting a Bricke-Kill on worke to make Bri
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