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yeares, & at one drangbt tliey liaiie taken 1,000 basses, & in one night 

 twelve hogsheads of heiring." ( Vol. II, page 10, Tract 2.) 



" Gov. Thomas Budleifs Letter to the Countess of Lincoln, March, 1631. 

 With explanatory Notes, hy Dr. John Farmer, Corres2)on(ling Secretary 

 of the Kew-Hampshire Ristorical Society. Washington: Fuhlished by 

 Peter Force.— 1S3S:^ 



[Reprinted Force's, Historical Tracts II., Tract 4.— 1838.] 



" Vpon tlie 8 of March, from after it was faire day light imtill about 

 8 of the clock in the forenoone, there flew over all the tonnes in our 

 plantacons so many flocks of dones, each flock conteyning many thou- 

 sands, & some soe many that they obscured the lighte, that it passeth 

 credit, if but the truth should bee written. ( Vol. II, page 17, Tract 4.) 



" New English Canaan; or. New Canaan, containing an abstract of Neio 

 England. — Composed in three Boolies. The first setting forth the Originall 

 of the Natives, their Maimers d; Customs. Together with their tractable 

 Nature tO Love towards the English. II. The Natural Indowments of 

 the Countrie, cO what Staple Commodities it yeeldeth. III. What 

 People are planted there, their Prosperity, what remarMble Accidents 

 have happened since the first planting of it : together with their Tenants 

 & practise of their Church. Written by Thomas Morton, of Clifford\s 

 Inn, Gent. Upon ten Yeers Knowledge & Experiment of the Country. 

 Printed by Charles Green. — 10o2." 



[Reprinted in Force's Historical Tracts, Vol. II, Tract 5.] 



"And first of the Swanne, because she is the biggest of the fowles of 

 that Country. There are of them in Merrimack Eiver, & in other 

 parts of the country, greate Store at the seasons of the yeare." 



"There are Gesse of three sorts, vize, brant Geese, which are pide, 

 & white Geese which are bigger, & gray Geese, wliich are as bigg & 

 bigger then the tame Geese of England, with black legges, black bills, 

 heads & necks black."— FoL II, p.^-id, Tract 5.) 



" Ducks, there are of three kindes, pide Ducks, gray Ducks, & black 

 Ducks in greate abnndance." 



" Teales, there are of two sorts greene winged, & blew winged." 



" Widggens there are, & abnndance of other water fonle." 



" Simpes, there are like our Simpes in all respects, with very little 

 difference." 



" Sanderlings are dainty birds, more full bodied than a Snipe." 



"Cranes, there are greate Store." (P. 47, Tract 5.) 



" Turkies there are, which divers times in great flocks h-ave sallied 

 by our doores. Of these there hath bin killed, that have weighed forty- 

 eiglit pound a peece. I had a salvage who hath taken out his boy in a 

 nsorning, »& they have brought home their loades about noone. I have 

 asked them what number they found in the woods, who have answered 

 ]^eeiit Metawna, which is a thomsaiid tluit day; the plenty of them 

 is such in these parts. They are easily killed at rooste, because the 

 one being killed, the other sit fast neverthelesse, & this is no bad 

 commodity." 



"There are a kinde of fowlers which are commonly called Phcisants, 



