II,] AND SORTS OF CORN, 



settlers arrived in America from England, found the 

 corn in use among the natives of the country, who 

 must have received it from the hand of a gracious 

 Providence. Those natives, whom the French 

 called savages (or wild people), we have always 

 called Indians ; and hence the word Indian was 

 put before the word corn. But, in all countries 

 except England and America, it goes by the 

 name of maize, or mais, or by some name other 

 than that of Indian corn. In America, the word 

 Indian is generally dropped, and the thing is 

 called corn, which word is never applied to 

 wheat, barley, oats, or rye, all which receive the 

 general appellation oi grain. 



13. The cultivation of Indian corn is, doubt- 

 less, as old as the world itself; and I think there 

 can be no doubt, that, in general, those texts of 

 Scripture in which the word '^ corn " is used, 

 always allude to this corn, and not to wheat 

 or any other grain. It is well known, that, in 

 Egypt and in all the countries, where the trans- 

 actions recorded in both testaments took place, 

 this corn is cultivated as the principal crop ; and 

 the French frequently call it bl^ de Turquie, or 

 Turkish corn, it having, in all likelihood, been 

 introduced into France many centuries ago, from 

 Turkey in Asia during the holy wars. 



14. Until I went to New Brunswick (an 

 English colony), some part of which i« five hundred 

 miles to the north of Boston, and actually made 



