30th September 2007, 02:04 AM
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| I am not what I am...
Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 2,643
| Re: Book Hauls! Quote:
Originally Posted by j. d. worthington
and Thomas Morton's (brace yourself) New English Canaan or New Canaan: Containing an Abstract of New England, composed in three Bookes. The first booke setting forth the original of the Natives, their Manners and Customes, together with their tractable Nature and Love towards the English. The second Booke setting forth the naturall Indowments of the Country, and what staple Commodities it yealdeth. The third Booke setting forth, what people are planted there, their prosperity, what remarkable accidents have happened since the first planting of it, together with their Tenents and practice of their Church. Written by Thomas Morton of Cliffords Inne gent, upon tenne yeares knowledge and experiment of the Country. (Printed at Amsterdam, by Jacob Frederick Stam, In the Yeare 1637) | Woo! Now that's a title -- you just don't get them like this anymore  Reminds me of the full title of Robinson Crusoe. |
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