Mount Wollaston: why so called, 1; character and number of settlers at, 8, 286, 294; description and sketch of, 9-10; view from, 12; location of, 15; morals at, 17; May-day festivities at, 18; a refuge of runaways, 22, 23; within grant to Massachusetts Company, 31; destruction of house at, 45; Common Prayer at, 94, 283; fountain at, 229; monster at, 282.
Muskrats, 204; value of skins of, 205, _n._; description of, 210.
Nantasket, 24, 25, 30, 325, _n._, 337, _n._
_New Canaan_: political significance of, 68; as a political pamphlet, 68, 322, _n._; reference to Lake Irocoise in, 78; where written, 78, 233, _n._; referred to by Bradford, 79; latest revision of, 79; no copies of, get to New England, 79, 88; publication of, not agreeable to Gorges, 80; referred to by Winthrop, 86; references to Book of Common Prayer in, 93; ribaldry of, 94; criticism of, 95-6; referred to in _Hudibras_, 96; humor in, 97; a connecting link, 98; bibliography of, 99-101; titlepages of, 100; printing of, 102; cause of errors in, 103; rules for present edition of, 104.
New England: emigration to, in 1634, 55; royal policy towards, 57; church practices in, 69; division of, in 1635, 70; commission for governing, in 1637, 77; location and temperature of, 120-1; winds not violent in, 122, 232; plenty of, 175; air of, 177; beauty of, 180; motives of settlers in, 181; no boggy ground in, 228; perfumed air of, 228, 231-2; superiority of, to Virginia, 228, 229, 233, 265; natural waters of, 229; population of, 230; fertility of, 231; people of, never have colds, 232; rainfall of, 233; coast and harbors of, _ib._; fecundity of women in, 265; universities vilified in, 282. (_See_ Council for New England.)
_New English Canaan._ (_See_ _New Canaan_.)
New Hampshire, population of, in 1634, 230, _n._
Newburyport: galena found in, 219, _n._; silver ore, 220, _n._
North Star, the Indian name of, 125, _n._
Northwest passage, interest in the, in 1632, 118, _n._, 239.
Nourse, H. S., on Elk in South Lancaster, Mass., 200, _n._
Nuttall’s _Ornithology_, cited, 194, _n._
“Old Planters,” jealousy of Massachusetts Company, 38.
Oldham, John, 40; at Hull, 24; takes Morton to England, 29-32; his promises of gain in New England, 32; his scheme for trading, 33; does not press matters against Morton, 33, 36; receives grant from John Gorges, 34; tries to organize expedition, 34; “a jack in his mood,” 40; his treatment at Plymouth, 262-4.