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Chapter 1: THE NEW ENGLISH CANAAN.
By Thomas Morton
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A first-person colonial narrative combines satirical social criticism with detailed observation of the region’s environment and inhabitants. The author alternates between polemic aimed at prevailing religious and civic authorities and attentive descriptions of landscape, plants, animals, fish, birds, and Indigenous customs, using anecdote, classical and scriptural allusion, and legal complaint. The work shifts tone from humor to invective to empirical reporting, creating a hybrid of natural history, social commentary, and personal defense; many later editions append extensive notes to clarify archaic terms, names, and scientific references.

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Title: The New English Canaan of Thomas Morton with Introductory Matter and Notes

Author: Thomas Morton

Editor: Charles Francis Adams

Release date: February 14, 2017 [eBook #54162]
Most recently updated: October 23, 2024

Language: English

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Transcriber's Note

A table of contents detailing the chapters of the original book is located at the end of the text.

This book is a 19th century edition of a 17th century original, along with extensive commentary. The 19th century edition used different page numbering. To facilitate internal references to specific pages, the original 17th century page numbers have been incorporated into the text enclosed by curly braces, e.g. {123}. References to these numbers in the text have been kept as printed, e.g. *123.

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Publications of the Prince Society.

THE NEW ENGLISH CANAAN.

THE
Publications of the Prince Society.
Established May 25th, 1858.

THE NEW
ENGLISH CANAAN.

Boston:
PRINTED FOR THE SOCIETY,
By John Wilson and Son.
1883.

TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY COPIES.

THE
NEW ENGLISH CANAAN
OF
THOMAS MORTON.

WITH INTRODUCTORY MATTER AND NOTES
BY
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, Jr.

Boston:
PUBLISHED BY THE PRINCE SOCIETY.
1883.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1883, by
The Prince Society,
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.

Editor:
CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS, Jr.