s was the whole
philosophy of the instrument, whatever may have since been discovered
and deduced from it." (p. 120.)]

[Footnote 8: Bradford's History of the Plymouth Plantation, p. 78. "The
31st of December (1620) being Sabbath, they attended Divine service for
the first time on shore, and named the place _Plymouth_, partly because
this harbour was so called in Capt. John Smith's map, published three or
four years before, and partly in remembrance of very kind treatment
which they had received from the inhabitants of the last port of their
native country from which they sailed." (Moore's Lives of the Governors
of Plymouth, pp. 37, 38.)

The original Indian name of the place was _Accomack_; but at the time
the Pilgrims settled there, an Indian informed them it was called
_Patuxet_. Capt. John Smith's Description of New England was published
in 1616. He says, "I took the description as well by map as writing, and
called it New England." He dedicated his work to Prince Charles
(afterwards King Charles II.), begging him to change the "barbarous
names." In the list of names changed by Prince Charles, _Accomack_ (or
Patuxet) was altered to _Plymouth_. Mr. Dermer, employed by Sir F.
Gorges and others for purposes of discovery and trade, visited this
place about four months before the arrival of the Pilgrims, and
significantly said, "I would that Plymouth [in England] had the like
commodities. I would that the first plantation might here be seated if
there come to the number of fifty persons or upward."]

[Footnote 9: See following Note:--

NOTE _on the Inflated American Accounts of the Voyage and Settlement of
the Pilgrim Fathers_.--Everything relating to the character, voyage, and
settlement of the Pilgrims in New England has been invested with the
marvellous, if not supernatural, by most American writers. One of them
says, "God not only sifted the three kingdoms to get the seed of this
enterprise, but sifted that seed over again. Every person whom He would
not have go at that time, to plant the first colony of New England, He
sent back even from mid-ocean in the _Speedwell_." (Rev. Dr. Cheever's
Journal of the Pilgrims.)

The simple fact was, that the _Mayflower_ could not carry any more
passengers than she brought, and therefore most of the passengers of the
_Speedwell_, which was a vessel of 50 tons and proved to be unseaworthy,
were compelled to remain until the following year, and came over in the
_Fortune_; and