Wood's New-England's Prospect (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Wood's New-England's ProspectMa¿'achufetts Colony. The writer, an intel ligent, and apparently an educated man, here embodies, in vigorous and idiomatic Englifh, the refults of his obfer vation and experience in the country, during a refidence in it of about four years. In the addrefs To the Reader, he fays, I have laid downe the nature of the Country, without any partiall refpeét unto it, as being my dwelling place where I have lived thefe foure years, and intend, God willing, to return {hortly againe. A glance at the table of contents will {how that the author aims to embrace in his book every fubjeét on which information would be fought by thofe intere¿ed in emigration to this part of the new world, and a defire for truth appears to have guided his pen. Doubtlefs the work contains fome inaccuracies. On fome fubjeéts the writer needed further information, as, for inftance, where he fays, Concerning Lyons I will notviii Preface to t/ze Present Edition.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.