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The Reformation · 1643
A Key into the Language of America
Roger Williams · c. 1603–1683
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What it is
A phrasebook of Narragansett with observations on their hospitality, government, and religion, and verses observing that the English are often the worse people.
Why it lasted
The first serious European study of an Algonquian language, written by someone who bought his land rather than seizing it.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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