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Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 12 1685-1688 and Addenda 1653-1687. Originally published by Her Majesty's Stationery Office, London, 1899.

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'Addenda: Miscellaneous, 1682', in Calendar of State Papers Colonial, America and West Indies: Volume 12 1685-1688 and Addenda 1653-1687, ed. J W Fortescue( London, 1899), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/cal-state-papers/colonial/america-west-indies/vol12/p642 [accessed 2 December 2024].

Miscellaneous, 1682



	2,073. An account of the title of the Kirkes to Canada. A brief narration of the grant of Nova Scotia to Sir William Alexander; of the conquest of Canada by the Kirkes in 1627 and 1628, of its restoration at the peace, and of Sedgwicke's capture of Acadia in 1654. 2 pp. Undated. [Col. Papers, No. LXIV., No. 108.]
	2,074. A description of the river Merrimac and the lands bordering thereon, and of Lake Wenepesioco, lying on the North thereof. (A) The mountains surrounding the lake are not inferior to the Alps, from which we saw the lake. On these hills are rattlesnakes, but they are said to be quite blind. (B) The lake itself is about eighty miles by fifty, full of fish. (c) There are about fifty islands in the lake, as far as we could count, but the Indians say there are many more. Some are eight or ten miles long. (D) The Merrimac is a very beautiful stream, over eighty poles wide above the falls of Pawtucket; full of fish, chiefly salmon and sturgeon. (E) The river runs through five smaller lakes after leaving the great lake. (F) The river Aquaducta enters the Merrimac a little below the lakes, little inferior to it in beauty or bigness. It is full of fish, and bordered by pleasant marshes very fit for plantation. (G) By the first issue of the Merrimac are some high rocks, on which John Endecott engraved his name. (H) Pennycook is a very fair valley, with steep sides to south and east, where the Indians have built a fort for defence against the Mohawks. It is very fruitful in corn and grass. Nature has done so much that it seems like a plantation of long standing rather than a wilderness. The river runs through the valley in the form of a double S, taking her course back so often that it would seem to be sensible of the pleasures of the place. (I) The river Coscomco is very rapid even in summer; there is fine timber close by. (K) The river Shanco, where it enters the Merrimac, has thrown up an island. There is a stone like a tower on the west side of the river, 100 feet high, truly admirable to behold. (L) Amascaege is the great fishing place of the Indians in these parts. The rocks are hard, and worn into holes sometimes ten feet deep by the whirling of stones. (M) Lascatock river is about of the size of Nashaway. (N) Coleassett is a most advantageous situation, both for pleasure and profit, well fitted for plough or pasture. The letters seem, by the context, to refer to some map or plan. 2 pp. Undated. [Col. Papers, Vol. LXIV., No. 109.]