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Title: A character of the province of Maryland : described in four distinct parts ; also a small treatise on the wild and naked Indians (or Susquehanokes) of Maryland ... together with a collection of historical letters
Year: 1869 (1860s)
Authors: Alsop, George, b. 1638 Shea, John Gilmary, 1824-1892
Subjects: Susquehanna Indians Maryland -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : William Gowans
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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in, yet pithy and concise DescriptionOf Mary-Lands pleniious and sedate condition,With other things herein by you set forth.To shew Us Bareness, and declare its Worth ;Coynposd in such a time, ivhen most mm icereSmitten with Sickness, or surprized loiih Fear,Argues a Genius good, and Courage stout.In bringing this Design so well about:Such generous Freedom waited on thy brain,The Work was done in midst of greatest pain ;And matters flowd so swiftly from thy source.Nature designed thee (sure) for such Discourse.Go on then ivith thy Work so loell begun,Let it come forth, and boldly see the Sun;Then shalli be known to all, that from thy YouthThou heldst it Noble to maintain the Truth, Gainst all the Rabble-rout, that yelping stand.To cast aspersions on thy MARY-LAND :But this thy Work shall vindicate its Fame,And as a Trophy memorize thy Name,So if without a Tomb thou buried be,This Books a lasting Monument for thee. II. W., Master of Arts. (See note No. 10). From my Study,Jan. 10, 16G5.
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A CHARACTER OF THE PROVINCE OP MARY-LAND. CHAP. I. Of the situation and plenty of the Province of Mary-Land. MARY-LAND is a Province situated upon thelarge extending bowels of America, under theGovernment of the Lord Baltemore, adjacent North-wardly upon the Confines of New-England, andneighbouring Southwardly upon Yirginia, dwellingpleasantly upon the Bay of Gli(Bsaf)ihe (see note No.11), between the Degrees of 36 and 38, in the Zonetemperate, and by Mathematical computation is elevenhundred and odd Leagues in Longitude from England,being within her own imbraces extraordinary pleasantand fertile. Pleasant, in respect of the multitude ofNavigable Rivers and Creeks that conveniently andmost profitably lodge within the armes of her green,spreading, and delightful Woods; whose naturalwomb (by her plenty) maintains and preserves theseveral diversities of Animals that rangingly inhabither Woods; as she doth otherwise generously fructifie 443 36 A CHARACTER OF THE this piece of Earth with a

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