38 $efo= (England Parities. 



called from Monfieur Cane) on the South with the River 

 Mohegan, or Hudfons River, fo called becaufe he was 

 the firft that dilcovered it. 1 Some will have America to be 

 an Ifland, which out of queftion muft needs be, if there be 

 a Northeaft paffage found out into the South Sea; it con- 

 tains 1 152400000 Acres. The difcovery of the North- 

 weft paffage (which lies within the River of Canada) was 

 undertaken with the help of fome Proteftant Frenchmen, 

 which left Canada and retired to Bofton about the year 1669. 

 The Northeaft people of America i.e. New England, &c. 

 are judged to be Tartars called Samoades, being alike in 

 complexion, fhape, habit and manners, (fee the Globed) 

 Their Language is very lignificant, ufing but few words, 

 every word having a diverfe fignification, which is expreft 

 by their gefture; as when they hold their head of one fide 

 the word fignifieth one thing, holding their hand up when 

 they pronounce it fignifieth another thing. Their Speech- 

 es in their Affemblies are very gravely delivered, com- 

 monly in perfeft Hexamiter Verfe, with great filence and 

 attention, and anfwered again ex tempore after the fame 

 manner. 2 



[6] Having given you fome fhort Notes concerning the 

 Country in general, I fhall now enter upon the propofed 

 Difcovery of the Natural, Phyfical, and Chyrurgical Rari- 

 ties; and that I may methodically deliver them unto you, 



1 Compare, as to the insulation of the tract understood by Josselyn as New 

 England, Palfrey, Hist. N. E., vol. i. pp. I, 2, and note, and the accompanying 

 map. 



2 See the author's larger account of the natives in his Voyages, pp. 123-150. 



