If? 



Chap, II. p AMERICA. 



which their Husbands catch forpleafure, from the places where they were caught i 

 They drefsall the Meat, ferve it up to their Husbands, and waiting till they have 

 fill'd their Bellies, are glad of their leavings. In Summer they gather Flags, of 

 which they make Mats for Houfes, and Hemp and Ruflies, with Dying Stuff; of 

 which chey make curious Baskets, with intermixed Colours and Pourtraidures of 

 antique Imagery. Thefe Baskets are of all fizes from a Quart to a Quarter, in 

 which they carry their Luggage. In Winter they are their Husbands Caterers, 

 trudging to the Clam*banks for their Belly-timber, and their Porters to lug it 

 home. They likewife few their Husbands Shoes, and weave Coats of Turky Fea- 

 thers, befides all their ordinary Houfliold drudgery which daily lies upon them, 

 infomuch that a greatBelly hinders no bufinefs, nor doth a Child-birth take much 

 time, but the young Infant being greas'd and footed, wrapp'd in a Beavers Skin, 

 bound with his Feet up to his Bum,upon a Board two Foot long and one Foot broad' 

 and his Face expos'd to all nipping Weather,this little fappou/e travels about with his 

 barefooted Mother to paddle in the Icy Clam.banks, after three or four days of 

 Age have confirm'd her recovery. For their Carriage, it is very civil, Smiles being 

 the greateft grace of their Mirth. Their Mufick is Lullabies in Rocking their Chil- 

 dren, who generally are as quiet as if they had neither Spleen or Lungs. Their 

 Voices are generally both fweet and well order'd, fo far as pure Nature teacheth 

 them. Their Modcfty drives them to wear more Clothes than the Men, having al- 

 ways a Coat of Cloth or Skins, wrapp'd like a Blanket about their Loyns, reaching 

 down to their Hams, which they never put off in Company. 



There are to be reckon'd up forty five chief Towns, befides what others there Towns J u 

 may be of lefs note, built or made habitable by the Englijl? fince their firft arrival 

 inNew England, till about the Year 1650. 



Firft, St. Georges Fort, where the firft Plantation was fetled, at the Mouth of the 

 River Sagadehock, in a kind of Peninfula, or half Ifland. 



The fecond, New Plymouth, feated no lefs commodioufly upon a large Bay, call'd x<„ &,: 

 by the Natives Vautuxed . where they firft fetled that went over out of diffatisfa- m "" h ' 

 ction to the Church-Government of England. 



The third, Salem, call'd by the Indians, SMahumbeak*., which ftands on the middle *m 

 ofa Neck of Land very pleafantly, having a South River on the one fide, and a 

 North River on the other fide. This Town feems to have been built in the Year 

 1628. by a part of that Company, who,being fent over by the Merchant* Adventurers, 

 fetled themfelves in this Cape. 



The fourth Mafrawmnt, or Charles- torn, fituate on a Neck of Land on the North- cm,.^ 

 fide of the River Charles. The form of this Town, in the Frontifpiecc of it, re- 

 fembleththe Head, Neck, and Shoulders of a Man . through the right Shoulder 

 whereof runs the Navigable River Mftick, which by its near approach to Charles 

 -River in one place, makes the chief part of the Town a Pen'mfula : It confifts of 

 a hundred and fifty Dwelling-houfes, many of them beautifi'd with pleafant Gar- 

 dens and Orchards : Near the Waterside is a large Market-place, forth of which 

 ifluc two fair Streets ; and in it ftandsa large and well built Church. 



The fifth, Matapdn, or Dorchejler, a Fronteer Town, ftanding over againft the Dord< ^ 

 Ifland near the Sea-fide : It is water'd with two fmall Rivers, and is built in the 

 form of a Serpent turning its Head Northward - it hath Orchards and Gardens 

 full of Fruit-trees. 



The fixth is Bojton, anciently Accomonticm, the Center and Metropolis of the reft, */*. 

 built in the form of a Heart, and fortifi'd with two Hills on the Front-part 

 thereof, the one having great ftore of Artillery mounted thereon, the other having 



S 2 a 



I 



by the EnglijU 

 in New Enp- 

 Uttd. 



St. Gtorgts 

 Fort. 



