374 AfcDwrial of Gco7^ge Broken Goode. 



catalogue ot the trees of New England, an imitation in manner and 

 meter of Spenser's famous catalogue in The Faerie Oueene: 



Trees both in hills and plaines in plenty be 



The long liv'd Oake, and mourneful Cypris tree 



Skie towring pines, and Chestnuts coated rough, 



The lasting Cedar and the Walnut tough ; 



The rozin dropping Firre for masts in use. 



The boatmen seeke for Oares light neeate growne vsprewse. 



The brittle Ash, the ever trembling Aspes, 



The broad-spread Elnie, whose concave harbours waspes 



The w^ater-springie Alder, good for nought 



Small Elderes by the Indian Fletchers sought 



The knottie Maple, pallid Birtch, Hawthornes, 



The Home bound tree that to be cloven scornes ; 



Which from the tender Vine oft takes his spouse, 



Who twinds embracing amies about his boughes. 



Within tliis Indian Orchard fruites be some 



The ruddie Cherrie, and the jettie Plumbe 



Snake murthering Hazell, with sweet Saxaphrage 



Whose steemes in beere allays hot fever's rage. 



The Diar's Shumach, with more trees there be 



That are both good to use and rare to see. 



Thus he describes the Animals of New England: 



The Kingly L3'on and the strong arm'd Beare 



The large limbed Mooses, with the tripping Deare. 



Quill darting Porcupines, and Rackcoones bee 



Castelld in the hollow of an aged Tree 



The skipping Squirrel, Rabbet, purblinde Hare 



Immured in the selfe same Castle are 



Least red-eyed Ferrets, wily Foxes should 



Them undermine if ramperd but with mould. 



The grim fac't Ounce, and ravenous howling Woolfe 



Whose meagre Paunch suckes like a swallowing Gulfe, 



Black glistening Otters and rich coated Beaver 



The Civet scented Musquash, smelling ever. 



His subsequent remarks upon the mammals are expanded from his 

 rhyme, and extended by tales which he has heard from hunters. One 

 of the animals whose name would not lend itself to poesy is the 

 "squuncke," which he classified among the "beasts of offence." This 

 seems to be the first use of the name. 



In the second part of Wood's book the Indians are discussed, and a 

 very creditable vocabulary is given. 



Most admirable work was now being done among the Indians by some 

 of the colonial clergymen. Chief among them was the Rev. John Eliot 

 [b. 1604, d. 1690] , who, during a residence of more than half a century 

 at Roxbury, mastered the language of the Massachusetts branch of the 

 great Algonquin tribe and pubhshed his grauunars and translations. 

 He was a graduate of Jesus College, Cambridge, and came to Massachu- 



