The Discovery of Nevv Brittaine : Began August 27, Anno Dom. 1650
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August 31. wee went away from Mahartneck South Eaft two miles to goe over ^^^ratff^ River, which hatk a bottome bctvreenc two high land fides through through which you rauft paflTe to get ovcr^ which River is about two hundred paces broadj and hath a high water marke after a Frclh of at leaft twenty foot perpendicular by the trees in the breaches be- twecne the Riverjand the high land of the old fields. This River is the Southerly laft and maine branch of chawpan River , and was by us named fVo...odfordKucr^ and runs to the Eaftward of the South. On both fides of fVoodford Ki\CT is very much exceeding rich Land 5 but cfpecially on the further fide towards Ho- comawanAnck^ Imediately after the paffage over this River, are old Indian fields of exceeding rich Land/ that beare two Crops of Indian Corne a yeare, and hath timber trees above five foot over^whofe truncks are a hundred foot in cleare timbenwhich will make twenty Cuts of Board timber a piece , and of thefe there is abundance. As alfo exceeding rich Land, full of great Reeds thrice as big as the largeft Arrow Reeds we have a- .bout our Plantations 5 this good Land continues for fomefix miles together unto a great Swampp, and then begins a pyny barren Champion Land with di- vers Branches and Pecofans, yet very pafleable, run- ning South and by Weft , unto a deepe River fome a hundred paces over, running Southland a little to the Eaft, which River inclofes a fmall Ifland which wee named Brervfters Ifland, fome eighteene miles from fvoodfard River due South, and by Weft, with very ex- ceeding rich Land on both fides of it for fome fixe miles together, and this River we alfo named ^/fir- /?frj River, it being the firft branch of Hocomawamnck Riyer : and a little lower downe as the River runs, is fuch fuch ariOther River as chichhamtne River (which is a mile broad.) After we had paffed over this River we travelled fome twenty miles further upon a pyny barren ChampicnLand to Hocomaifmanck ^iver.
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