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            [value] =>  . . I find in general, that without using Judgement, they borrow from old credulous Writers, and relate Things obsolete for many Years past, as if in the present State of the Country.
Dr. Cotton Mather's Map of New-England, New York, Jersies and Pensylvania is composed from some old rough Draughts of the first Discoverers, with obsolete Names not known at this Time, and has scarce any Resemblance of the Country; it may be called a very erroneous antiquated Map.

Capt. Cyprian Southack's Land-Map of the Eastern North America, is worse; it is as rude as if done by an Indian, or as if done in those Ages when Men first began to delineate Countries; it gives no Information, but has no other bad Effect, than turning so much Paper to Waste: But his large Chart of the Coast of Nova Scotia and New England, being one continued Error, and a random Performance, may be of pernicious Consequence in Trade and Navigation; therefore it ought to be publickly advertised as such, and destroy'd wherever it is found amongst Sea Charts. [note]also, "Capt. Southack in a most
false, therefore pernicious Sea-Chart
of the Coast of Nova Scotia and New-
England, delineates a Thorough-Fare
from the grand Bay of Massachusetts to
the Ocean in Eastham, near Sandy
Point; no Person, himself excepted,
ever imagin'd or dreamt of this
Thorough-Fare, his Dream or Words
are 'the place where I came thro'
with a Whale-Boat April 26, 1717,
to look after Bellams the
Pirate'." Douglass (1749-52, 1:402n)[NOTE_9624_0]
			

Oldmixon's (he died Anno 1742) British Empire in America 2 Vol. 8vo Lond[on] 1708. [Oldmixon 1708] He generally writes as if copying from some ill-founded temporary News-Paper. Dr. C. Mather says, that Oldmixon in 56 pages has 87 Falsehoods. He prefixes Mather's silly Map; and confesses that he borrowed many Things from Cotton Mather's Magnalia; leaving out, the Puns, Anagrams, Miracles, Prodigies, Witches, Speeches and Epistles. [Douglass lists a series of example errors] [1:363n] An indefinite Number of more Errors, the Repetition of them would be Confutation Sufficient.
Neal's History of New-England 2 Vol. 8vo. London 1720. [Neal 1720] [Douglass lists a series of example errors] To enumerate the other Errors and Blunders of this Performance, would be copying of it; but it will not bear such a new Impression. [note]Note: This general condemnation of
Neal was picked up by later reviewers;
e.g., New England Historical and
Genealogical Register 19 (1865):
381. Douglass made no reference
to the map found in that work:
New Map of New England (1720).[NOTE_9624_1]
			

[1:364n] This Annotation is already too prolix for Amusement, we must defer to some other Occasion the Amusements from Cotton Mather's Magnalia, or History of New England, from Salmon's Modern History, from Atlas maritimus & commercialis, from Josselin, and from Hubbard. [note]Note: Douglass (1749-52, 1:407)
dealt with Salmon---a "Tory, or
rather a Jacobite"---and the Atlas
at the beginning of the chapter on
the old colony (pre-1691) of
Massachusetts Bay. After the list
of example errors from Salmon's
Modern History, Douglass wrote:
"His enlarging much upon trifling
and fabulous Things, to multiply
Sheets, and his many obvious
Inconsistencies, shew him to
be a Scribbler, and no accurate
Historian---His Abstract of the
Laws of New-England, are from
an obsolete old Charter Law-Book."
As for the Atlas Maritimus et
Commercialis (London, 1728; see
Phillips 1909-20, 3: no.3298),
Douglass simply gives a list of errors.
He once again deferred any discussion
of Josselin, Hubbard, and Cotton
Mather (1:407n). Douglass (2:71n)
did eventually dismiss Josselyn (1672),
stating that the work "abounds with
gross Mistakes," but he never got
around to commenting on either
Hubbard (1677) or Mather (1702),
except for numerous snipes directed
at Mather and his fellow clergy.[NOTE_9624_2]
			
            [view] =>  . . I find in general, that without using Judgement, they borrow from old credulous Writers, and relate Things obsolete for many Years past, as if in the present State of the Country.
Dr. Cotton Mather's Map of New-England, New York, Jersies and Pensylvania is composed from some old rough Draughts of the first Discoverers, with obsolete Names not known at this Time, and has scarce any Resemblance of the Country; it may be called a very erroneous antiquated Map.

Capt. Cyprian Southack's Land-Map of the Eastern North America, is worse; it is as rude as if done by an Indian, or as if done in those Ages when Men first began to delineate Countries; it gives no Information, but has no other bad Effect, than turning so much Paper to Waste: But his large Chart of the Coast of Nova Scotia and New England, being one continued Error, and a random Performance, may be of pernicious Consequence in Trade and Navigation; therefore it ought to be publickly advertised as such, and destroy'd wherever it is found amongst Sea Charts. [note]also, "Capt. Southack in a most
false, therefore pernicious Sea-Chart
of the Coast of Nova Scotia and New-
England, delineates a Thorough-Fare
from the grand Bay of Massachusetts to
the Ocean in Eastham, near Sandy
Point; no Person, himself excepted,
ever imagin'd or dreamt of this
Thorough-Fare, his Dream or Words
are 'the place where I came thro'
with a Whale-Boat April 26, 1717,
to look after Bellams the
Pirate'." Douglass (1749-52, 1:402n)[NOTE_9624_0]
			

Oldmixon's (he died Anno 1742) British Empire in America 2 Vol. 8vo Lond[on] 1708. [Oldmixon 1708] He generally writes as if copying from some ill-founded temporary News-Paper. Dr. C. Mather says, that Oldmixon in 56 pages has 87 Falsehoods. He prefixes Mather's silly Map; and confesses that he borrowed many Things from Cotton Mather's Magnalia; leaving out, the Puns, Anagrams, Miracles, Prodigies, Witches, Speeches and Epistles. [Douglass lists a series of example errors] [1:363n] An indefinite Number of more Errors, the Repetition of them would be Confutation Sufficient.
Neal's History of New-England 2 Vol. 8vo. London 1720. [Neal 1720] [Douglass lists a series of example errors] To enumerate the other Errors and Blunders of this Performance, would be copying of it; but it will not bear such a new Impression. [note]Note: This general condemnation of
Neal was picked up by later reviewers;
e.g., New England Historical and
Genealogical Register 19 (1865):
381. Douglass made no reference
to the map found in that work:
New Map of New England (1720).[NOTE_9624_1]
			

[1:364n] This Annotation is already too prolix for Amusement, we must defer to some other Occasion the Amusements from Cotton Mather's Magnalia, or History of New England, from Salmon's Modern History, from Atlas maritimus & commercialis, from Josselin, and from Hubbard. [note]Note: Douglass (1749-52, 1:407)
dealt with Salmon---a "Tory, or
rather a Jacobite"---and the Atlas
at the beginning of the chapter on
the old colony (pre-1691) of
Massachusetts Bay. After the list
of example errors from Salmon's
Modern History, Douglass wrote:
"His enlarging much upon trifling
and fabulous Things, to multiply
Sheets, and his many obvious
Inconsistencies, shew him to
be a Scribbler, and no accurate
Historian---His Abstract of the
Laws of New-England, are from
an obsolete old Charter Law-Book."
As for the Atlas Maritimus et
Commercialis (London, 1728; see
Phillips 1909-20, 3: no.3298),
Douglass simply gives a list of errors.
He once again deferred any discussion
of Josselin, Hubbard, and Cotton
Mather (1:407n). Douglass (2:71n)
did eventually dismiss Josselyn (1672),
stating that the work "abounds with
gross Mistakes," but he never got
around to commenting on either
Hubbard (1677) or Mather (1702),
except for numerous snipes directed
at Mather and his fellow clergy.[NOTE_9624_2]
			
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