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ging at his house. The settlement, we 

 are told, there consisted of about a half 

 score of houses, with a fair house newly 

 built for the Governor. We found also 

 abundance of corn planted by them, very 

 good and well-liking. . . . Our Gov- 

 ernor hath already planned a vineyard 

 with great hopes of increase. Also mul- 

 berries, plums, raspberries, currants, 

 chestnuts, filberts, walnuts, small nuts, 

 hurtleberries, and haws of white thorn, 

 near as good as our cherries in England : 

 they grow in plenty here. . . . 



" It is a land of divers and sundry sorts 

 all about Masathulets Bay and at Charles 

 river is as fat black earth as can be seen 

 anywhere : and in other places you have 

 a clay soil, in other gravel, in other 

 sandy, as it is all about our plantation at 

 Salem, for so our town is now named. 

 The fertility of the soil is to be admired 

 at, as appear eth in the abundance of 

 grass that groweth every where, both very 

 thick, very long, and very high in divers 

 places. But it groweth very wildly, with 

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