[77] Wood says, ch. 18, “They pronounce _l_ and _r_ in our English tongue, with much difficulty, calling a lobster a nobstan.” Yet Roger Williams states, that “although some pronounce not _l_ or _r_, yet it is the most proper dialect of other places, contrary to many reports;” and Eliot, in his Indian Grammar, says, “These consonants, _l_, _n_, _r_, have such a natural coincidence, that it is an eminent variation of their dialects. We Massachusetts pronounce the _n_; the Nipmuk Indians pronounce _l_; and the Northern Indians pronounce _r_. As instance: We say _Anum_} Nipmuck, _Alum_} A Dog.” Northern, _Arum_} See Mass. Hist. Coll. iii. 223, xix. 248. [78] “When they are sick, their misery appears, that they have not, but what sometimes they get from the English, a raisin or currant, or any physic, fruit, or spice, or any comfort more than their corn and water, &c. In which bleeding case, wanting all means of recovery or present refreshing, I have been constrained, to and beyond my power, to refresh them, and to save many of them from death, who I am confident perish many millions of them, in that mighty continent, for want of means.” Roger Williams, in Mass. Hist. Coll. iii. 236. [79] The same as _pinse_. See page 13. [80] Sokones, or Succonusset, now called Falmouth. [81] Or Agawam, part of Wareham. [82] Martha’s Vineyard. [83] “_Maskit_, give me some physic.” Roger Williams’s Key, in R. I. Hist. Coll. i. 159. [84] “_Ketan_ is their good God, to whom they sacrifice after their garners be full with a good crop. Upon this God likewise they invocate for fair weather, for rain in time of drought, and for the recovery of their sick.” Wood’s New England’s Prospect, part ii. ch. 12. _Chapter 5_ (_pp. 40-52_) [85] Morton says, in his New English Canaan, ch. vii. “There are great store of oysters in the entrance of all rivers. They are not round, as those of England, but excellent fat and all good. I have seen an oyster bank a mile in length. Muscles there are infinite store. I have often gone to Wessaguseus, where were excellent muscles to eat, (for variety,) the fish is so fat and large.” [86] The word _inclined_ or _disposed_ seems to have been accidentally omitted.