Young folks' history of the United States . grew quitehealthy. They found the climate bracing; and onesaid, that a sup of New Englands air was better thana whole draught of Old Englands ale. Even in theirworst times, very few went back to England ; and, not-withstanding their poverty, there was not an instanceof theft among them for four years. Governor Win-throp wrote to his wife, We here enjoy God and JesusChrist; and is not that enough ? I thank God I like sowell to be here as [that] I do not repent my would not have altered my course, though I had fore-seen all these afflictions.
Young folks' history of the United States . grew quitehealthy. They found the climate bracing; and onesaid, that a sup of New Englands air was better thana whole draught of Old Englands ale. Even in theirworst times, very few went back to England ; and, not-withstanding their poverty, there was not an instanceof theft among them for four years. Governor Win-throp wrote to his wife, We here enjoy God and JesusChrist; and is not that enough ? I thank God I like sowell to be here as [that] I do not repent my would not have altered my course, though I had fore-seen all these afflictions. I had never more content ofmind. These two colonies, Plymouth and MassachusettrBay, were for many years independent of one another,but the Plymouth Colony, though the older of the two,grew far more slowly than the other, and was at lastunited with it in 1692, under the name of Massachu-setts ; the name being taken from one of the tribes ofIndians inhabiting the soil. The meaning of the wordis said to be Blue Hills. Union ofthe CHAPTER IX. THE OTHER NEW ENGLAND COLONIES. THE two colonies afterwards united under thename of Massachusetts have been describedbefore the other New England colonies. This is be-cause Massachusetts, being first settled, was in a man-ner the parent of these later colonies. Let us take upthe rest in the ordinary geographical order. Maine was not for many years considered as a sepa- Eariy uerate colony; and yet it was one of the first parts of country to be visited and explored by was visited by the navigator Gosnold in 1602 ; andan English colony tried to establish itself there in 1607,as has already been told; and a French colony camesoon after. But the English settlers went home ; andthe Frenchmen were driven away by the Virginia set-tlers, who did not wish to have them so near, and sentan expedition against them. Capt. John Smith ex- the coast of Maine, and wrote a description of ; and an Engl
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