Produced by Therese Wright and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) +---------------------------------------------------+ | Transcriber's Note: | | | | The original text contains many instances of | | variation in spelling and hyphenation, these | | have been preserved as they appear. Inconsistent | | punctuation has also been preserved, although | | missing punctuation have been added without | | comment. | | | | In the description of Greenwich, the author has | | omitted the number of miles from Stamford to | | Greenwich. The omitted number is in this e-text | | represented by curly brackets like this: { }. | | | | Characters with diacritical marks are represented | | in this e-text as follows: | | | | Characters with a superior macron are preceded | | by an equal sign and enclosed in square | | brackets, eg., [=m]. | | | | Characters with a superior tilde are preceded | | by a tilde sign and enclosed in square | | brackets, eg., [~m]. | | | | Superscripted characters are preceded by a carat | | and enclosed in curly brackets, eg., Cap^{t}. | +---------------------------------------------------+ MAVERICK'S DESCRIPTION OF NEW ENGLAND. A BRIEFE DISCRIPTION OF NEW ENGLAND AND THE SEVERALL TOWNES THEREIN TOGETHER WITH THE PRESENT GOVERNMENT THEREOF. [From a Manuscript written in 1660 by Samuel Maverick, and recently discovered in the British Museum by Henry F. Waters, A.B.] [1885] BOSTON: PRESS OF DAVID CLAPP & SON. PREFACE. BY JOHN WARD DEAN.