The daughters of Eve and the inhabitants of the dark forest came to represent two different typologies of the natural world, each of them drawn in part from biblical imagery. The Puritans perceived productive farmland, for instance, as exemplifying the feminine attributes of receptivity and fruitfulness, overflowing with abundance (after Psalm 65:9–10). They drew the image of the female body as an enclosed garden from Song of Songs 4:12 and figured that the reverse was true as well. The garden of the New World was a lovely female form inviting (and also requiring) enclosure.60 With respect to
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