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New Englands prospect. A true, lively, and experimentall description of that part of America, commonly called New England: discovering the state of that countrie, both as it stands to our new-come English planters; and to the old native inhabitants.
London: Thomas Cotes, for John Bellamy , 1634
Physical Description: [8], 98, [6] p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 19 cm. (4to)
Call number: D634/ W881n/ [R]
Accession number: 02748
Notes: Contains a selection of vocabulary in the Massachuset language with English equivalents in double parallel columns, listing over 250 words and phrases in a general “Nomenclator” which is followed by the numbers 1-20; the 10 “sleepes” or nights; the 24 months; and 70 proper names of “Countries”, “Sagamores”, “Habitations”, and rivers (p. [99]-[102]).
“Earliest topographical account of the Massachusetts Colony, by a resident of four years.”--Vail, R.W.G., Voice of the old frontier, p. 87.
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Languages: Massachuset
Genre: Vocabulary
Region: North America
