It does not take close scrutiny to see that both John Smith’s essay “A Description of New England,” and the excerpts from Of Plymouth Plantation, by William Bradford, are both a collogue of elaborated ad dilated truths. Obviously, one cannot “kill in one day with his hook and line one, two, or three hundred cods…” as John Smith stated on page 21. Or overlook the exaggeration of William Bradford when he said about the Indians “the barbarians showed them no small kindness in refreshing them,
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