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New Englands prospect. Being a true, lively, and experimental description of that part of America, commonly called New England... The third edition.
[Boston] London, printed 1639; Boston, New-England, re-printed: Thomas and John Fleet... and Green and Russell, 1764
Physical Description: [2], xviii, 128 p. ; 20 cm. (8vo)
Call number: D764/ W881n/ [R]
Accession number: 08012
Notes: Contains a selection of vocabulary in the Massachuset language, with English equivalents in 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. [1-5], 3rd group). (p. 123-128).
First published, London, 1634. Reprinted from London, 1639 edition, Boston, 1764. RLIN: “Really the fourth edition. Cf. Evans.”
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Languages: Massachuset
Genre: Vocabulary
Region: North America
