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NYM(G.753.026
4 Jun 1753:21 (43)
To extol Yale College the place of my educators, or
Connecticut, where I first drew my breath, as an example for
New-York, looks so much like flattery that I dare not
attempt it; but in general, I will venture to say, that the
present professors of that college, in divinity,
mathematicks, law, physick, and astronomy, with their innate
political knowledge, have not their equals upon the
continent: As for the country, I can't better describe,
than by the following lines published in praise of it, by
the Reverend William Morrel, a preacher here, about the year
1640, in a poem he published in praise of New-England, and
dedicated to the right honourable the lords, and the right
worshipful knights and gentlemen, adventurers for New-
England.
All on that main, the verdant trees abound,
Where cedar, cyprus, spruce, and beech are found;
Ash, oak, and walnut, pines and juniper,
The hasle, palm, and hundred more there:
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