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yeares, & at one draught they haue taken 1,000 basses, & in one night 

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



" Gov. Thomas Dudley's Letter to the Countess of Lincoln, March, 1631. 

 With explanatory Notes, by Dr. John Fanner, Corresponding Secretary 

 of the New-Hampshire Historical Society. Washington : Published by 

 Peter Force— 1838." 



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



" Vpon the 8 of March, from after it was faire day light untill about 

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

 plantacons so many flocks of doues, each flock conteyning many thou- 

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

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



" New English Canaan; or, Neic Canaan, containing an abstract of New 

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

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

 Nature & Love towards the English. II. The Natural Indotcments of 

 the Countrie, & what Staple Commodities it yeeldeth. III. What 

 People are planted there, their Prosperity, what remarkable Accidents 

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

 & practise of their Church. Written by Thomas Morton, of Clifford's 

 Inn, Gent. Upon ten Yeers Knowledge & Experiment of the Country. 

 Printed by Charles Green. — 1632." 



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



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

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

 parts of the country, greate Store at the seasons of the 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 the tame Geese of England, with black legges, black bills, 

 heads & necks black." — Vol. II, 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 greeue winged, & blew winged." 



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



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

 difference." 



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



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



" Turkies there are, which div r ers times in great flocks have sallied 

 by our doores. Of these there hath bin killed, that have weighed forty- 

 eight pound a peece. I had a salvage who hath taken out his boy in a 

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

 asked them what number they found in the woods, who have answered 

 Neent Metawna, which is a thousand that day; the plenty of them 

 is such in these parts. They are easily killed at rooste, because the 

 one being killed, the other sit fast never thelesse, & this is no bad 

 commodity." 



"There are a kinde of fowles which are commonly called Pheisants, 



