Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	abundance_n	fruitful_a	great_a	117	3	2.1445	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03330	Nevv-Englands plantation. Or, A short and true description of the commodities and discommodities of that countrey. Written by Mr. Higgeson, a reuerend diuine now there resident. Whereunto is added a letter, sent by Mr. Graues an enginere, out of New-England	Higginson, Francis, 1587-1630.; Graves, Thomas, enginere.	1630 (1630)	STC 13450; ESTC S106176	10,251	28

and sweeter then is ordinarily to be found in England Here are also store of Pumpions Cowcombers and other things of that nature which I know not Also diuers excellent Pot-herbs grow abundantly among the Grasse as Strawberrie leaues in all places of the Countrey and plentie of Strawberries in their time and Penyroyall Wintersauerie Sorrell Brookelime Liuerwort Caruell and Watereresses also Leekes and Onions are ordinarie and diuers Physicall Herbes Here are also aboundance of other sweet Herbes delightfull to the smell whose names we know not c. and plentie of single Damaske Roses verie sweet and two kinds of Herbes that beare two kinds of Flowers very sweet which they say are as good to make Cordage or Cloath as any Hempe or Flaxe we haue Excellent Vines are here vp and downe in the Woods Our Gouernour hath already planted a Vineyard with great hope of encrease Also Mulberries Plums Raspherries Corrance Chesnuts Filberds Walnuts Smalnuts Hurtleberies Hawes of Whitethorne neere as good as our Cherries in England they grow in plentie here For Wood there is no better in the World I thinke here being foure sorts of Oke differing both in the Lease Timber and Colour all excellent good There is also good Ash Elme Willow Birch Beech Saxafras Iuniper Ciprus Cedar Spruce Pines Firre that will yeeld abundance of Turpentine Pitch Tarie Masts and other materials for building both of Ships and Houses Also here are store of Sumacke Trees they are good for dying and tanning of Leather likewise such Trees yeeld a precious Gum called White Beniamen that they say is excellent for perfumes Also here be diuers Roots and Berries wherewith the Indians dye excellent holding colours that no raine nor washing can alter Also wee haue materials to make Sope-Ashes and Salt-Peter in aboundance For Beasts there are some Beare● and they say some Lyons also for they haue been seen at Cape A●●e Also here are seuerall sorts of Deere some whereof bring three or foure young ones at once which is not ordinarie in England Also Wolues Foxes Beauers Otters Martins great wild Cats a great Beast called a Molke as bigge as an Oxe I haue seen the Skins of all these Beasts since I came to this Plantation excepting Lyons Also here are great store of Squerrels some greater and some smaller and lesser there are some of the lesser sort they tell me that by a certaine Skin will fly from Tree to Tree though they stand farre distant Of the waters of New-England with the things belonging to the same NEw-England hath Water enough both salt and fresh the greatest Sea in the World the Atlanticke Sea runs all along the Coast thereof There are abundance of Ilands along the Shore some full of Wood and Mast to feed Swine and others cleere of Wood and fruitfull to beare Corne. Also we haue store of excellent harbours for Ships as at Cape Anne and at Masathulets Bay and at Salem and at many other places and they are the better because for Strangers there is a verie difficult and dangerous passage into them but vnto such as are well acquainted with them they are easie and safe enough The aboundance of Sea Fish are almost beyond beleeuing and sure I should scarce haue beleeued it except I had seene it with mine owne Eyes I saw great store of Whales and Crampusse and such aboundance of Makerils that it would astonish one to behold likewise Cod-Fish aboundance on the Coast and in their season are plentifully taken There is a Fish called a Basse a most sweet wholesome Fish as euer I did eat it is altogether as good as our fresh Sammon and the season of their comming was begun when wee came first to New-England in Iune and so continued about three 〈◊〉 space Of this Fish our Fishers take many hundreds together which I haue seene lying on the shore to my admiration yea their N●ts ordinarily take more then they are able to ●ale to Land and for want of Boats and Men they are constrained to let a many goe after they haue taken them and yet sometimes they fill two Boats at a time with them And besides Basse wee take plentie of Sca●e and Thornbacke and abundance of Lobsters and the least Boy in the Plantation may both catch and eat what he will of them For my owne part I was soone cloyed with them they were so great and far and lussious I haue seene some my selfe that haue weighed 16 pound but others haue had diuers times so great Lobsters as haue weighed 25 pound as they assure me Also here is abundance of Herring Turbut Sturgion Cuskes Hadocks Mullets Eeles Crabs Muskles and Oysters Beside there is probability that the Countrey is of an excellent temper for the making of Sa●●● for since our comming our Fishermen haue brought home verie good Salt which they found candied by the standing of the Sea water and the heat of the Sunne vpon a Rock by the Sea shore and in diuers Salt Marishes that some haue gone through they haue found some Salt in some places crushing vnder their Feet and cleauing to their Shooes And as for fresh Water the Countrey is full of daintie Springs and some great Riuers and some lesser Brookes and at Masathulets Bay they digged Wels and found Water at three Foot deepe in most places and neere Salem they haue as fine cleare Water as wee can desire and we may digge Wels and finde Water where we list Thus wee see both Land and Sea abound with store of blessings for the comfortable sustenance of Mans life in New-England Of the Aire of New-England with the Temper and Creatures in it THe Temper of the Aire of New-England is one speciall thing that commends this place Experience doth manifest that there is hardly a more healthfull place to be found in the World that agreeth better with our English Bodyes Many that haue beene weake and sickly in old England by comming hither haue beene thoroughly healed and growne healthfull and strong For here is an extraordinarie cleere and dry Aire that is of a most healing nature to all such as are of a Cold Melancholy Flegmatick Reumaticke temper of body None can more truly speake hereof by their owne experience then my selfe My Friends that knew me can well tell how verie sickly I haue been and continually in Physick being much troubled with a tormenting paine through an extraordinarie weaknesse of my Stomacke and aboundance of Melancholike humors but since I came hither on this Voyage I thanke God I haue had perfect health and freed from paine and vomitings hauing a Stomacke to digest the hardest and coursest fare who before could not eat finest meat and whereas my Stomacke could onely digest and did require such drinke as was both strong and stale now I can and doe often times drink New-England water verie well and I that haue not gone without a Cap for many yeeres together neither durst leaue off the same haue now cast away my