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a great stalk, and a broad and ranker 

 blade, because it never had been eaten 

 with cattle, nor mowed with a scythe, 

 and seldom trampled on by foot. It is 

 scarce to be believed how our kine and 

 goats do thrive and prosper here. They 

 have tried our English corn at New Ply- 

 mouth Plantation, so that all our several 

 grains will grow here very well, and have 

 a fitting soil for their nature. And as for 

 fresh water, the country is full of dainty 

 springs, and some great rivers, and some 

 lesser brooks : and at Masathulets Bay 

 they digged wells and found water at 

 three foot deep in most places : and near 

 Salem they have as fine clear water as we 

 can desire, and we may dig wells and find 

 water where we list." l 



The planting of tobacco, to be con- 

 sidered rather as a luxury than a neces- 

 sity for the plantations, called forth the 

 following advice in Cradock's letter to 

 Endicott in 1629. " The course you have 

 taken in giving our countrymen their 

 1 Young, Massachusetts Chronicles, p. 243. 



