Una descrizione pittorica degli Stati Uniti; abbracciando la storia, la posizione geografica, le risorse agricole e minerali .. . . – la pianura, su cui fu combattuta una battaglia, nel 1643, tra circa novecento Narragan-set, che abitavano Rhode Island, e seicento Mohegans fiveor. Il primo, Miantsaconimo, intendendo tochastise Uncas per la sua adesione all'inglese, avanzò segretamente nel suo paese con un esercito. Uncas, consapevole di hisapproach, lo incontrò su questa pianura, wl)erebe parti si fermò ; poi si ricorse a questo stratagem : avanzando, hechallenged Miantonimo per decidere theq

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A pictorial description of the United States; embracing the history, geographical position, agricultural and mineral resources .. . ated plain, on which a battle was fought, in 1643, between about nine hundred Narragan-sets, inhabiting Rhode Island, and fiveor six hundred Mohegans. The sachemof the former, Miantonimo, intending tochastise Uncas for his adherence to theEnglish, secretly advanced into his coun-try with an army. Uncas, aware of hisapproach, met him on this plain, wl)ereboth parties halted ; he then resorted tothis stratagem : stepping forward, hechallenged Miantonimo to decide thequarrel single-handed. This, as he ex-pected was refused ; and while his ene-mies were unprepared, he gave a signalby falling down, when his men set up ayell, discharged their arrows, and rushedforward. The Narragansets fled, andmany were killed. Uncas himself cap-tured Miantonimo, who was too haughtyto ask for quarter or speak a word ; hewas taken to Hartford, tried, and givento Uncas for execution ; he was broughtback, and, while marching across thefield, tomahawked near the road. DESCRIPTION OF THE STATE OF CONNECTICUT. 131. First Governor of Connecticut John WiNTHROp, FIRST Governor ofConnecticut.—This distinguished gen-tleman, for many years the governor ofConnecticut, was the eldest son of JohnWinthiop, the first governor of Massa-chusetts, and founder of the city of Bos-ton—that famous pattern of piety andjustice, as he is called in the earlychronicles of New England—who emi-grated to America in 1630, and broughtwith him the confidence and respect ofthe government he had left, and themost exalted and upright faculty for theduties he came to assume. Graham, adopting the thought of a classic histo-rian, says of him that he not only per-formed actions worthy to be written, but produced writings woithy to beread. His son John—the subject of this brief memoir—was scarcely lessdistinguished. He was the heir of allhis fathers talent, prudence, and virtues, with a superior

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