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In the States Papers office in London is a "propper ballad" entitled a "Sommons to New England," which was written about 1680. It alluringly recites natural conditions in the colonies. One verse runs thus:
"There flights of foules doe cloud the light, / Of turkies three score pound in weight / As bigg as ostridges."