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The letter was written by Richard Hakluyt, a very learned young clergyman. In the course of the letter Hakluyt presents the evidence of the riches of the country, in its climate, soil, fruits, and varied productions in its furs, fisheries and mines; and gives the testimony of men who had visited the country, and the city, and who had seen its resources in material for commercial enterprise. This paper was first put in print some years ago by the Maine Historical Society, and edited by Dr. Woods and the late Dr. Charles Deane of Cambridge.
Why has it received so little attention Mainly because of the adverse reports and Opinions of Champlain and his lieutenant historiographers as to the existence of the city of Norumbega on the Penobscot, where he and they had expected to find it. And yet it is to appear that while Cham plain's maps of 1612 and 1632 Show that he had been conducted to the site of Norumbega on the Charles (see Purchas, 1613, p. The few remain ing dwellings his party found, were ascribed wholly to the Indians. He could not see in the squalid cabins, which he figures on his maps, anything corresponding to the city his imagination had pictured.
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