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Eaftward of Bofton ; here I refided eight years, and made it 
my bufinefs to difcover all along the Natural, Phyfical, and 
Chyrurgical Rarities of this New-found World. 
New-England is faid to begin at 40 and to end at 46 of 
Northerly Latitude, that is from de la Ware Bay to New- 
found-Land. 
The Sea Coafts are accounted wholfomeft, the Eaft and 
South Winds coming [3] from Sea produceth warm weath- 
er, the Northweft coming over land caufeth extremity of 
Cold, and many times ftrikes the Inhabitants both EnglifJi 
and Indian with that fad Diseafe called there the Plague 
of the back, but with us Empicma} 
The Country generally is Rocky and Mountanous, and 
extremely overgrown with wood, yet here and there beau- 
tified with large rich Valleys, wherein are Lakes ten, 
twenty, 3'ea fixty miles in compafs, out of which our great 
Rivers have their Beginnings. 2 
Fourfcore miles (upon a direcl: line) to the Northweft 
of Scarborow, a Ridge of Mountains run Northweft and 
of Scarborough, which is thus further noticed by our author in his Voyages, p. 
201, as " the town of Black Point, consisting of about fifty dwelling-houses, and a 
Magazine, or Dogannc, scatteringly built. They have store of neat and horses, 
of sheep near upon seven or eight hundred, much arable and marsh, salt and 
fresh, and a corn-mill." — Comp. Williamson's Hist, of Maine, vol. i. pp. 392, 
666; Willis in Geneal. Register, vol. i. p. 202. 
1 Empyema is a result of disease of the lungs. See Voyages, p. 121. 
2 Compare the accounts of the first appearance of the country by the Rev. 
Francis Higginson and Mr Thomas Graves, both well-qualified observers, in New- 
England's Plantation, London, 1630; reprinted in Mass. Hist. Coll., vol. i. p. 117. 
And see Wood's New England's Prospedt, a book which our author was probably 
acquainted with ; as compare p. 4 of Wood (edit. 1764) with the beginning of p. 3 
of the Rarities, and some other places in both. 
