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trey for their better subsistance. . . . 

 By the side of this River is built New- 

 town e, which is three miles by land from 

 Charles Towne, and a league and a halfe 

 by water. The inhabitants most of them 

 are very rich, and well stored with Cattell 

 of all sorts : having many hundred Acres 

 of ground paled in with one generall 

 fence, which is about a mile and a halfe 

 long, which secures all their weaker Cat- 

 tle from the wilde beasts. On the other 

 side of the River lieth all their Medow 

 and Marsh-ground for Hay. Halfe a mile 

 Westward of this plantation, is Water- 

 towne: a place nothing inferiour for 

 land, wood, medow, and water to New- 

 towne. . . . The last Towne in the 

 still Bay, is Winnisimet : a very sweet 

 place for situation, and stands very cotn- 

 modiously, being fit to entertaine more 

 planters than are yet seated. The chief 

 Hands which keepe out the Winde and 

 Sea from disturbing the Harbours, are 

 first Deare Hand and Long Hand. . >. 

 Divers other Hands be within these : viz. 

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