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fished but every third yeare : in some 

 places is very good ground, and very good 

 timber, and divers springs hard by the 

 sea side. Although their land be none of 

 the best, yet beyond those rivers is a very 

 good soyle, where they have taken 

 farmes, and get their Hay, and plant 

 their corne : there they crosse these riv- 

 ers with small Cannowes, which are made 

 of whole pine trees, being about two foot 

 & a half over, and 20 foote long. 



" Agowamme is nine miles to the North 

 from Salem, which is one of the most 

 spatious places for a plantation; being 

 neare the sea, it aboundeth with fish, and 

 flesh of fowles and beasts, great Meads 

 and Marshes and plaine plowing grounds, 

 many good rivers and harbours and no 

 rattle snakes. In a word, it is the best 

 place but one, which is Merrimacke, ly- 

 ing 8 miles beyond it, where is a river 

 20 leagues navigable ; all along the river 

 side is fresh marshes, in some places 

 5 mile broad. To conclude, the Countrie 

 hath not that which this place cannot 

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