 | 1838 - 466 էջ
...graves all alike. CHAP. XV 11 I . Of their Cvatome in burning the Country, and the reason thereof. THe Salvages are accustomed, to set fire of the Country...where they come ; and to burne it, twize a yeare, vixe at the Spring, and the fall of the leafe. The reason that mooves them to doe so, is because it... | |
 | Thomas Morton - 1883 - 414 էջ
...Of their Cuflome in burning the Country, and the reafon thereof. THe Salvages are accuftomed to fet fire of the Country in all places where they come,...viz : at the Spring, and the fall of the leafe. The reafon that mooves them to doe fo, is becaufe it would Tht saha. other wife be fo overgrowne with underweedes... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - 1907 - 502 էջ
...see the graves all alike. Of Their Custom in Burning the Country, and the Reason Thereof. The savages are accustomed to set fire of the country in all places where they come, and to burn it twice a year, viz. : at the spring, and the fall of the leaves. The reason that moves them... | |
 | Michael Williams - 1992 - 630 էջ
...New England for several years by 1637, had no difficulty in explaining the openness of the forest: The Salvages are accustomed to set fire of the Country...all places where they come, and to burne it twize, in the yeare, viz: as the Spring and the fall of the leafe. The reason that mooves them to doe so,... | |
 | Joel S. Levine - 1991 - 612 էջ
...where the Indians want." In New England Thomas Morton wrote in 1637 that "the Savages are acustomed to set fire of the Country in all places where they come; and to burne it, twize a year, vixe at the Spring, and the fall of the leafe. The reason that mooves them to doe so, is because... | |
 | Thomas S. Baskett - 1993 - 604 էջ
...Morton, in his New English Canaan (1637: 52), wrote of Indian incendiarism: "The Salvages are accusted, to set fire of the Country in all places where they come; and to burne it, twize a yeare, vixe at the Spring, and the fall of the leafe." Stewart (1951) found more than two hundred references... | |
 | Grady Clay - 1994 - 342 էջ
...naught. However, firing-up the landscape has a long history. In 1637 Thomas Morton wrote: "The savages are accustomed to set fire of the country in all places where they can and burn it twice a year."3 "Indians burned widely for traditional reasons, particularly east of... | |
 | Alice Outwater - 2008 - 228 էջ
...suppressed that the resistant species shaded them out. The fittest survived, often in pure stands. "The Salvages are accustomed to set fire of the Country in all places where they come, and to burn it twize a year, viz: at the Spring, and the fall of the leafe," observed Squire Morton, a 1632... | |
 | Thomas M. Bonnicksen - 2000 - 614 էջ
...Plymouth Bay, where the Massachuset Indians lived. Morton wrote his observations in 1632: The Savages arc accustomed, to set fire of the country in all places where they come; and to burne it, twize a yeare, vixc at the Springe, and the fall of the leafe. The reason that mooves them to doe so, is because it... | |
 | Donald Edward Davis - 2003 - 370 էջ
...a long-standing custom that he said had "continued from the beginning," adding that the "[savages] are accustomed to set fire of the Country in all places where they come; and to burn it, twize a yeare ... at the Spring and the fall of the leafe." Adriaen van der Donck wrote a... | |
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The Salvages are accustomed, to set fire of the Country in all places where they come; and to burne it, twize a yeare, vixe [viz.] at the Spring, and the fall of the leafe. 
