History of Montville, Connecticut, Formerly the North Parish of New London From 1640 to 1896 (Classic Reprint)

Book excerpt: Excerpt from History of Montville, Connecticut, Formerly the North Parish of New London From 1640 to 1896 Much of the field work was doubtless performed with their hands, and the only implements the natives of the soil seem to have had were Spades rudely constructed of wood or stone, or of alarge Shell fastened to a stick. With these rude implements they turned up the soil and dropped in their seed. There are a few still remaining that bear the tints of that savage and ferocious race that once roamed over this territory of ours, but now how unlike them. They have outgrown their native barbarous condition and become refined by con tact with civilization. Though their ancestors were rude in manner and ferocious and warlike in character, there are many passages in their history which are instructive, and some touching and pathetic. Had the aborigines of this land remained unmolested and unvisited by Europeans till the present day they' would now have been as rude, as poor, as warlike, as disdainful of labor, and in every way as uncivilized as when the white man first explored the river Thames and sailed along its virgin shores. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.