A Character of the Province of Maryland / Described in four distinct parts; also a small Treatise on the Wild and Naked Indians (or Susquehanokes) of Maryland, their customs, manners, absurdities, and religion; together with a collection of historical letters.

by George Alsop

To my Friend Mr. GEORGE ALSOP, on his Character of MARY-LAND.

Who such odd nookes of Earths great mass describe,

Prove their descent from old Columbus tribe:

Some Boding augur did his Name devise,

Thy Genius too cast in th’ same mould and size;

His Name predicted he would be a Rover,

And hidden places of this Orb discover;

He made relation of that World in gross,

Thou the particulars retail’st to us:

By this first Peny of thy fancy we