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are little inferiour to those that our 

 Grocers sell in England. This land like- 

 wise affoards Hempe and Flax, some 

 naturally, and some planted by the 

 English, with Rapes if they bee well 

 managed. . . . The next commoditie 

 the land affords, is good store of Woods, 

 & that not onely such as may be need- 

 ful for fewel, but likewise for the build- 

 ing of ships, and houses, and mills, and 

 all manner of water worke about which 

 Wood is needefull." . . . There be 

 very few that have the experience of the 

 ground, that can condemne it of barren- 

 nesse ; altho many deeme itt barren, be- 

 cause the English used to manure their 

 land with fish, which they doe, not be- 

 cause the land could not bring corne 

 without it, but because it brings more 

 with it : the land likewise being kept in 

 hart the longer: besides, the plenty of 

 fish which they have for little or nothing, 

 is better so used, than cast away : but to 

 argue the goodnesse of the ground, the 

 Indians who are too lazie to catch fish, 

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