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Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 2 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Chapter 18: Prescott and Motley (search)
ant thing. doggerel, shows that even the Puritans could smile as they regarded some of their discomforts. Nathaniel Ward See also Book I, Chap. III. wrote The simple Cobler of Aggawam in America (1647), which Moses Coit Tyler called the most eccentric and amusing book that was produced in America during the colonial period, although Ward insisted that it should be accepted as a trustworthy account of the spiritual state of New England. John Josselyn, who wrote New England's Rareties (1672), declared that most of what he wrote was true; he admits that some things which he recorded he had heard but not seen: for example, that Indians commonly carry on their discussions in perfect hexameter verse, extempore, and that in New England there is a species of frog which chirps in the spring like swallows and croaks like toads in autumn, some of which when they sit upon their breech are a foot high, while up in the country they are as big as a child of a year old. In the eighteenth c