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greatest nor the richest, yet it is the most 

 noted and frequented, being the Center of 

 the Plantations where the monthly Courts 

 are kept. Here likewise dwells the Gov- 

 ernour : This place hath very good land, 

 affording rich Corne-fields, and fruit efull 

 Gardens: having likewise sweete and 

 pleasant springs. 



" The inhabitants of this place for their 

 enlargement, have taken to themselves 

 Farme-houses, in a place called Muddy- 

 river, two miles from the Towne : where 

 is good ground, large timber, and store 

 of Marsh-land and Medow. In this place 

 they keepe their Swine and other Cattle 

 in the Summer, whilst the Corne is on 

 the ground at Boston, and bring them to 

 the Towne in Winter. ... On the 

 North-side of Charles River is Charles 

 Towne. This Towne for all things, may 

 be well paralel'd with her neighbour Bos- 

 ton, being in the same fashion with her 

 bare necke, and constrained to borrow 

 conveniences from the Maine, and to pro- 

 vide for themselves Farmes in the Coun- 

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