<p>The text is closely confined to the colonial period; but the mode of presentation is extraordinary indeed to those accustomed to the prosaic methods of town and village historians. Mr. Hudson has tried to transport his readers and himself back two hundred years or more, as in a vision. In imagination we sit before the humble ?resides of the ?rst settlers; hear and join in their gossip, superstitions, and communings, social and religious; inspe...