In response to the following, see below it: "I sent a message in in response to Christie's, but it seems not to have come through--weasels don't get no respect! So first: ----- Original Message ---- From: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> "Just a curious question. Did Brewster in his writings refer to the New World as America? There several times at the beginning of the movie that the New World was addressed as America by the Pilgrims. Something about those statements that doesn't ring true to me." ------------------------- An interesting observation, Christie. -------------------- As always, Jeremy Bangs could answer best, because what is readily available to most of us are the writings that were done AFTER the crossing. In those writings, at least those that have been used to line my cage and with which I am familiar, the term New England is commonly used. " ===============[ response: ]===================== Well, I'm flattered, of course. Brewster's writings are not known. But all one needs to do is read Bradford, who, in writing about the discussions that led to the decision to go to America, says, "The place they had thoughts on was some of those vast & unpeopled countries of America, which are fruitfull & fit for habitation, being devoyd of all civill inhabitants, wher ther are only salvage & brutish men, which range up and downe, litle otherwise than ye wild beasts of the same." - Jeremy Bangs