154 EEPORT OF COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND FISHERIES. 



yeares, & at one draugbt tbey liaiie taken 1,000 basses, & in one nigiit 

 twelve hogsheads of herring." ( Vol. IT, page 16, Tract 2.) 



^' Gov. Thojnas Dudley^s Letter to the Countess of Lincoln^ March, 1631. 

 With explanatory Notes., hy Dr. Johyi Farmer., Corresponding Secretary 

 of the Neiv-Hampshire JSistorical Society. Washington : Fuhlished by 

 Peter Force.— 1S3S.''^ 



[Reprinted Force's, Historical Tracts II., Tract 4.— 1838.] 



^' Ypon tbe 8 of March, from after it was faire day light nntill about 

 8 of tbe clock in the forenoone, there flew over all the tonnes in our 

 l>lantacons so many flocks of doues, each flock conteyning many thou- 

 sands, & some soe many that they obscured the ligbte, that it passeth 

 credit, if but the truth should bee written. {Vol. 11, page 17, Tract 4.) 



" New Fnglish Canaan^ or, New Canaan, containing an abstract of Neiv 

 England. — Composed in three Boolces. The first setting forth the Originall 

 of the Natives, their Manners & Customs. Together tvith their tractable 

 Nature & Love towards the Eyiglish. LI. The Natural Indoicments of 

 the Countrie, & tchat Staple Commodities it yeeldeth. LLI. What 

 Feople are planted there, their Prosperity, ivhat remarlmble Accidents 

 have happened since the first planting of it : together tvith their Tenants 

 (& practise of their Church. Written by Thomas Morton, of Clifford\3 

 Lnn, Gent. Upon ten Yeers Knoivledge & Fxperiment of the Country. 

 Frinted by Charles Green. — 1632." 



[Reprinted in Force's Historical Tracts, Vol. II, Tract 5."] 



"And first of tbe Swanne, because she is the biggest of tbe fowles of 

 that Country. There are of them in Merrimack Eiver, & in other 

 parts of the country, greate Store at tbe seasons of tbe yeare.'* 



"There are Gesse of three sorts, vize, brant Geese, which are pide, 

 & white Geese which are bigger, & gray Geese, which are as bigg &, 

 bigger then tbe tame Geese of England, with black legges, black bills, 

 heads & necks black."— Fo?. LI, p. 46, Tract 5.) 



"Ducks, there are of three kindes, pide Ducks, gray Ducks, & black 

 Ducks in greate abundance.'' 



" Teales, there are of two sorts greene winged, & blew winged." 



" Widggens there are, & abundance of other water foule." 



" Simpes, there are like our Simpes in all respects, with very little 

 difference." 



"Sauderlings are dainty birds, more full bodied than a Snipe." 



" Cranes, there are greate Store." (P. 47, Tract 5.) 



" Turkies there are, which divers times in great flocks have sallied 

 by our doores. Of tbese there bath bin killed, that have weighed forty- 

 eight pound a peece. I bad a salvage who hath taken out bis boy in a 

 morning, & they have brought boine their loades about noone. I have 

 asked tbem what number they found in tbe woods, who have answered 

 Neent Metawna, which is a thousand that day ; tbe plenty of tbem 

 is such in tbese parts. Tbey are easily killed at rooste, because tbe 

 one being killed, the other sit fast nevertbelesse, & this is no ba<l 

 commodity." 



"There are a kinde of fowlo-vS which are commonly called l^lieisants, 



