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The Preface to Beauchamp Plantagenet's work, printed in the year 1648, begins
thus:—

“This Epistle and Preface shows Cato's best rules for a Plantation.

“To the right honorable and mighty Lord Edmund, by Divine Providence
Lord Proprietor, Earl Palatine, Governor and Captain-Generall of the Province
of New Albion * * * * and to all other the Viscounts, Barous, Baronets,
Knights, Gentlemen, Merchants, Adventurers and Planters of the hopefull Company
of New Albion, in all 44 undertakers and subscribers, bound by Indenture
to bring and settle 3000 able, trained men in our said severall Plantations in the
said Province,

“Beauchamp Plantagenet, of Belvil, in New Albion, Esquire, one of the Company,
wishes all health, happinesse, and heavenly blessings,” &c. &c.

See Morton's New English Canaan (pp. 62, 63) for an account of the various
remarkable fountains of Massachusetts.

It is a pity that this picturesque chain of hills should, after bearing several
very good names, have subsided at last into the anonymous. As all hills are
blue, Blue Hill is no name at all.

The critic who would object to the locality of Blaxton's homestead, is informed,
that, according to recent and impregnable authority, the hermit's “six
acre lot” faced the Common, and was washed by the waters of the Western
Cove.

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Morton says that his poem, “being enigmatically composed, puzzled the Separatists
most pitifully to expound it.” It would puzzle all the pundits in existence
to expound it now. For example, thus he sets forth:

See the New English Canaan.

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