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I. First discovery of Indian Corn bt the Pilgrims. 



The testimony of Morton, whose JVew England Memorial has been 

 preserved in the best possible form, in Judge John Davis's excellent 

 edition, corroborates the narrative of Mourt. 



" Proceeding fm-ther, they found new stubble, where Indian Corn 

 had been planted the same year ; also, they found where lately a house 

 had been ; where some planks and a great kettle were remaining, and 

 heaps of sand, newly paddled with their hands, which they digged up, 

 and found in them diverse fan- Indian baskets filled with com ; some 

 whereof was in ears, fair and good, of diverse colors, which seemed to 

 them a very goodly sight, having seen none before; of which varie- 

 ties they took some to cany to then- friends on shipboard, like as 

 the Israelitish spies brought fi-om Eshcol some of the good fruits of 

 the land." — Davis's Morton, page 40. 



The place where the corn was found, which received the appropri- 

 ate appellation of Cornhill, is in Trm-o. 



The relation of Mourt has been adopted in the text for its mmute 

 fidelity, and his authority for the date, stated according to new style, 

 preferred, as being that of an elder writer than Morton. 



n. The Tobacco Plant. 



The tobacco plant seems to have been cultivated by the northern 

 Indians. The seeds were found in the wigwams of Plymouth Colo- 

 ny, by the first settlers. It was present when the great sagamore of 

 the Massachusetts and the magistrates of the new born state, met, in 

 April, 1621, to link the chain of friendship. The ceremonial of 

 the reception of Massasoit on the frontier had passed, and the king 

 had been escorted into the plantation with all the parade which could 

 be exiiibited in that day, to honor the reception of a prince : " then," 

 says Mourt, " instantly came our governor, [Carver,] with a di'um and 

 ti-umpet after him, and some few musketeers ; after salutations, our 

 governor kissed his hand ; the king kissed him ; and so they sat down. 

 The governor called for some strong water, and drunk to him, and he 



