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William Wood
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William Wood (fl. 1629–1635) was an English settler in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. His New Englands Prospect (1634) discusses the geography and natural history of the colony.
Quotes
The king of waters, the sea-shouldering whale.
New Englands Prospect (1634), ch. 9. Same line in Samuel Clarke, A True and Faithful Account of the...English in America (1670), p. 37. The phrase "The sea-shouldering whale" attributed by Keats to Spenser's Faerie Queene (1590, '96)
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Category:Travel writers
Category:People from Massachusetts