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a ftrong Battery, built of whole Timber, and fill'd with Earth : At the Defcent 

 of the Hill lies a Urge Cave or Bay, on which the chief part of this Town is bu.lt, 

 over-topp'd with a third HU1, all three like over-topping Towers keeping a con. 

 ftant W P atch to forefee the approach of foreign Dangers The chiefeft part of this 

 City-like Town is crowdtd upon the Sea Banks, and wharf d out with great Indu. 

 ftryand Coft, the Edifices large and beautiful, whofe continual enlargement pre- 



^thtZX^^cd between Vojlon and Vorch^r, watered with cool 

 and pleafant Sp ings iffuing from the Rocky Hills, and with fmall Freftets water, 

 ".the Valleyf ofthis fertile Town , Theform of it refemblech a Wedge double 

 pointed, entring between the two above.mention'd Towns? and in the room of 

 Stole Swamps, or tearing Buftes which were there before, they have now goodly 

 Fruit-trees, fruitful Fields and Gardens. 



The eighth is Lynne, or (according to the Indian Name, Saugus) fituated b twen 

 Sale, and Cbarles-tL, near a River, whofe ftrong Freftet at the end of Winter fill. 

 all her Banks, and with a violent Torrent vents it felf into the Sea. . Thu Town s 

 almoft fquare, confifting many years ago of above ahundred D^Uing-honfa, ba. 

 vina alfo an Iron Mill in conftant ufe i The Church being on a level Land unde. 

 fended from the North-Weft Wind, is made with Steps defending into the Earth. 

 The ninth is call'd Water-town, anciently fi&ujfrt, fituated upon one of the 

 Branches of (>r/«*River, water'd with many pleafant Springs and fmall Rivulets, 

 running like Veins throughout her Body. This Town began by occafion of ' S« 

 <KicbardSaltingJlall, who arriving with ftore of Cartel and*Servants, Winter d in 



tH In fhe'vear i6n. there was erefted between Cbarles-to^n and WateMn a Place 

 call'd New^n, and by the Indians, Jmongcangen, fince nam'd Cambridge, being the 

 tenth in order : It is in form like a Lift of Broadcloth, reaching to the moft Sou. 

 therly part of Merrimeck River , it hath comely and well order'd Streets, and two 

 • fair Colledges , the firft call'd HarVerd ColUdge, from Mr. John HarVerd, who at his 

 Death gave a thoufand Pounds to it , to the other Mr. J An Harms was the chief Be- 

 nefactor. This Town was appointed to be the Seat of the Government, but it 



continu'd not long. . c . , 



The eleventh call'd Itfwich, or Sawacatucby the Indians, is fituated on a lair and 

 delightful River, iffuing forth from a very pleafant Pond, and afterwards breaking 

 its Courfe through a hideous Swamp of large extent , it lies in the Sagamore^, or 

 Earldom of Jggawan, now by the Englijh call'd Ejfex. 



Twelve Miles from Ipfwicb, near upon the Streams of Memmeck River, is iitua. 

 ted the twelfth, call'd Nfbburj. . f 



The People of Newtown, or Cambridge, upon their removal of the Plantation • ot 

 CaneBico, paffingup the River, built a Town, which they call'd Hartford, the thir- 

 teenth in number, divers others coming in the room of thofe that departed from 



The fourteenth,feated upon a fair freft River(whofe Rivulets are fill'd witb-freft 

 Mar ft, and her Streams with Fift, it being a Branch of that large River of Mem- 

 meck Attwhes) is built in the Inland Countrey, and call'd Concord: It confided at 

 firft of above fifty Families: Their Buildings are for the moft part conveniently 

 plac'd on one ftreight Stream under a Sunny Bank, in alow Level. The People 

 that firft fet forth to build this Town, fuftain*d.great hardftip and mifery, by reaj 

 fonofthe uncouth Ways, and extremity of the Weather, it being the firft Inland 



Town that was built. . 



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