John Josselyn, Gent., is remembered as the author of two brief and entertaining accounts of his travels to New England, the first of which, New-Englands Rarities Discovered ..., was published in 1672 and favorably noted in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society on 15 July 1672. Quite likely this attention inspired the second book, An Account of Two Voyages to New-England ..., which was published in 1674 but went unnoticed even though it was dedicated to the Fellows of the Royal Society. The two voyages upon which Josselyn based his books had been undertaken first in 1638, when the author paid a visit to his brother Henry at "Black-point, otherwise called Scarborow" in Maine, and again in July 1663, a visit that lasted until August of 1671. During his second visit, Josselyn ran afoul of the Puritan authorities for failing to attend church on a regular basis, and it was probably this experience, together with prevailing...