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A46303	New-Englands rarities discovered in birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, and plants of that country : together with the physical and chyrurgical remedies wherewith the natives constantly use to cure their distempers, wounds, and sores : also a perfect description of an Indian squa ... with a poem not improperly conferr'd upon her : lastly, a chronological table of the most remarkable passages in that country amongst the English : illustrated with cuts / by John Josselyn, Gent.	Josselyn, John, fl. 1630-1675.	1672 (1672)	Wing J1093; ESTC R20038	31,976	126

fasten to a Bow or build it round about a low Bush a Foot from the ground The flying Gloworm The flying Gloworm flying in dark Summer Nights like sparks of Fire in great number they are common liewise in Palestina Fifthly Of Plants AND 1. Of such Plants as are common with us in ENGLAND HEdghog-grass Mattweed Cats-tail Stichwort commonly taken here by ignorant People for Eyebright it blows in Iune Blew Flower-de-luce the roots are not knobby but long and streight and very white with a multitude of strings To provoke Vomit and for Bruises It is excellent for to provoke Vomiting and for Bruises on the Feet or Face They Flower in Iune and grow upon dry sandy Hills as well as in low wet Grounds Yellow bastard Daffodill it flowereth in May the green leaves are spotted with black spots Dogstones a kind of Satyrion whereof there are several kinds groweth in our Salt Marshes To procure Love I once took notice of a wanton Womans compounding the solid Roots of this Plant with Wine for an Amorous Cup which wrought the desired effect Watercresses Red Lillies grow all over the Country innumerably amongst the small Bushes and flower in Iune Wild Sorrel Alders Tongue comes not up till Iune I have found it upon dry hilly grounds in places where the water hath stood all Winter in August and did then make Oyntment of the Herb new gathered the fairest Leaves grow amongst short Hawthorn Bushes that are plentifully growing in such hollow places One Blade Lilly Convallie with the yellow Flowers grows upon rocky banks by the Sea Water Plantane here called Watersuck-leaves For Burns and Scalds and to draw Ater out of swell'd Legs It is much used for Burns and Scalds and to draw water out of swell'd Legs Bears feed much upon this Plant so do the Moose Deer Sea Plantane three kinds Small-water Archer Autumn Bell Flower White Hellibore which is the first Plant that springs up in this Country and the first that withers it grows in deep black Mould and Wet in such abundance that you may in a small compass gather whole Cart-loads of it Wounds and Aches Cured by the Indians For the Tooth-ach For Herpes milliares The Indians Cure their Wounds with it annointing the Wound first with Raccoons greese or Wild-Cats greese and strewing upon it the powder of the Roots and for Aches they scarifie the grieved part and annoint it with one of the foresaid Oyls then strew upon it the powder The powder of the Root put into a hollow Tooth is good for the Tooth-ach The Root sliced thin and boyled in Vineager is very good against Herpes Milliaris Arsmart both kinds Spurge Time it grows upon dry sandy Sea Banks and is very like to Rupter-wort it is full of Milk Rupter-wort with the white flower Jagged Rose-penny-wort Soda bariglia or massacote the Ashes of Soda of which they make Glasses Glass-wort here called Berrelia it grows abundantly in Salt Marshes St. John ' s-Wort St. Peter ' s Wort. Speed-well Chick-weed Male fluellin or Speed-well Upright Peniroyal Wild-Mint Cat-Mint Egrimony The lesser Clot-Bur Water Lilly with yellow Flowers the Indians Eat the Roots which are long a boiling they tast like the Liver of a Sheep the Moose Deer feed much upon them at which time the Indians kill them when their heads are under water Dragons their leaves differ from all the kinds with us they come up in Iune Violets of three kinds the White Violet which is sweet but not so strong as our Blew Violets Blew Violets without sent and a Reddish Violet without sent they do not blow till I●…ne For swell'd Legs Wood-bine good for hot swellings of the Legs fomenting with the decoction and applying the Feces in the form of a Cataplasme Salomons-Seal of which there is three kinds the first common in England the second Virginia Salomons-Seal and the third differing from both is called Treacle Berries having the perfect ●…ast of Treacle when they are ripe and will keep good along while certainly a very wholsome Berry and medicinable Doves-Foot Herb Robert Knobby Cranes Bill For Agues Ravens-Claw which flowers in May and is admirable for Agues Cinkfoil Tormentile Avens with the leaf of Mounta●…e-Avens the flower and root of English Avens Strawberries Wild Angelica majoris and minoris Alexanders which grow upon Rocks by the Sea shore Yarrow with the white Flower Columbines of a flesh colour growing upon Rocks Oak of Hierusalem Achariston is an excellent Medicine for stopping of the Lungs upon Cold Ptisick c. Oak of Cappadocia both much of a nature but Oak of Hierusalem is stronger in operation excellent for stuffing of the Lungs upon Colds shortness of Wind and the Ptisick maladies that the Natives are often troubled with I helped several of the Indians with a Drink made of two Gallons of Molosses wort for in that part of the Country where I abode we made our Beer of Molosses Water Bran chips of Sassafras Root and a little Wormwood well boiled into which I put of Oak of Hierusalem Cat mint Sowthistle of each one handful of Enula Campana Root one Ounce Liquorice scrap'd brused and cut in peices one Ounce Sassafras Root cut into thin chips one Ounce Anny-seed and sweet Fennel-seed of each one Spoonful bruised boil these in a close Pot upon a soft Fire to the consumption of one Gallon then take it off and strein it gently you may if you will boil the streined liquor with Sugar to a Syrup then when it is Cold put it up into Glass Bottles and take thereof three or four spoonfuls at a time letting it run down your throat as leasurely as possibly you can do thus in the morning in the Afternoon and at Night going to bed Goose-Grass or Clivers Fearn Brakes Wood sorrel with the yellow flower Elm. Line Tree both kinds A way to draw out Oyl of Akrons or the like c. Maple of the Ashes of this Tree the Indians make a lye with which they force out Oyl from Oak Akorns that is highly esteemed by the Indians Dew-Grass Earth-Nut which are of divers kinds one bearing very beautiful Flowers Fuss-Balls very large Mushrooms some long and no bigger than ones finger others jagged flat round none like our great Mushrooms in England of these some are of a Scarlet colour others a deep Yellow c. Blew flowered Pimpernel Noble Liver-wort one sort with white flowers the other with blew Black-Berry Dew-Berry Rasp-Berry here called Mul-berry Goose-Berries of a deep red Colour H●… ho●…n the Haws being as big as Services and very good to eat and not so astringent as the Haws in England ●…oad flax Pellamount or Mountain time Mouse 〈◊〉 Minor The making of Oyl of Akrons To strengthe●… weak Members ●…or Scall'd-heads There is Oak of three kinds white red and black the white is excellent to make Canoes of Shallopes Ships and other Vessels for the Sea and for Claw-board and Pipe-staves the black is good to make Waynscot of and out

of the white Oak Acorns which is the Acorn Bears delight to ●…eed upon The Natives draw an Oyl taking the rottenest Maple Wood which being burnt to ashes they make a strong Lye therewith wherein they boyl their white Oak-Acorns until the Oyl swim on the top in great quantity this they fleet off and put into bladders to annoint their naked Limbs which corrobarates them exceedingly they eat it likewise with their Meat it is an excellent clear and sweet Oyl Of the Moss that grows at the roots of the white Oak the Indesses make a strong decoction with which they help their Papouses or young Childrens scall'd Heads Iuniper which Cardanus saith is Cedar in hot Countries and Juniper in cold Countries it is hear very dwarfish and shrubby growing for the most part by the Sea side W●…llow Spurge Lawrel called here Poyson berry it kills the English Cattle if they chance to feed upon it especially Calves Gaul or noble Mirtle Elder Dwarf Elder For a Cut with a Bruse Alder An Indian Bruising and Cutting of his Knee with a fall used no other remedy than Alder Bark chewed fasting and laid to it which did soon heal it To take Fire out of a Burn. The decoction is also excellent to take the Fire out of a Burn or Scalld For Wounds and Cuts For Wounds and Cuts make a strong decoction of Bark of Alder pour of it into the Wound and drink thereof Hasel For sore Mouths falling of the Pallat. Filberd both with hairy husks upon the Nuts and setting hollow from the Nut and fill'd with a kind of water of an astringent taste it is very good for sore Mouths and falling of the Pallat as is the whole green Nut before it comes to Kernel burnt and pulverized The Kernels are seldom without maggots in them The Figure of the Walnut Walnut the Nuts differ much from ours in Europe they being smooth much like a Nutmeg in shape and not much bigger some three cornered all of them but thinly replenished with Kernels Chestnuts very sweet in taste and may be as they usually are eaten raw the Indians sell them to the English for twelve Pence the bushel Beech. Ash. Quick-beam or Wild-Ash Coals of Birch pulverized and wrought with the white of an Egg to a Salve is a gallant Remedy for dry scurfy Sores upon the Shins and for Bruised Wounds and Cuts Birch white and black the bark of Birch is used by the Indians for bruised Wounds and Cuts boyled very tender and stampt betwixt two stones to a Plaister and the decoction thereof poured into the Wound And also to fetch the Fire out of Burns and Scalds Poplar but differing in leaf Plumb Tree several kinds bearing some long round white yellow red and black Plums all differing in their Fruit from those in England Wild Purcelan●… Wood-wax wherewith they dye many pretty Colours Red and Black Currans For the Gout or any Ach. Spunck an excrescence growing out of black Birch the Indians use it for Touchwood and therewith they help the Sciatica or Gout of the Hip or any great Ach burning the Patient with it in two or three places upon the Thigh and upon certain Veins 2. Of such Plants as are proper to the Country Toripen any Impostume or Swelling For sore Mouths The New-Englands standing Dish INdian Wheat of which there is three sorts yellow red and blew the blew is commonly Ripe before the other a Month Five or Six Grains of Indian Wheat hath produced in one year 600. It is hotter than our Wheat and clammy excellent in Cataplasms to ripen any Swelling or impostume The decoction of the blew Corn is good to wash sore Mouths with It is light of digestion and the English make a kind of Loblolly of it to eat with Milk which they call Sampe they beat it in a Morter and sift the flower out of it the remainer they call Homminey which they put into a Pot of two or three Gallons with Water and boyl it upon a gentle Fire till it be like a Hasty Pudden they put of this into Milk and so eat it Their Bread also they make of the Homminey so boiled and mix their Flower with it cast it into a deep Bason in which they form the Loaf and then turn it out upon the Peel and presently put it into the Oven before it spreads abroad the Flower makes excellent Puddens Bastard Calamus Aromaticus agrees with the description but is not barren they flower in Iuly and grow in wet places as about the brinks of Ponds To keep the Feet warm The English make use of the Leaves to to keep their Feet warm There is a little Beast called a Muskquash that liveth in small Houses in the Ponds like Mole Hills that feed upon these Plants their Cods sent as sweet and as strong as Musk and will last along time handsomly wrap'd up in Cotton wool they are very good to lay amongst Cloaths May is the best time to kill them for then their Cods sent strongest Wild-L●…kes which the Indians use much to eat with their fish A Plant like Knavers-Mustard called New-England Mustard Mountain-Lillies bearing many yellow Flowers turning up their Leaves like the Martigon or Turks Cap spotted with small spots as deep as Safforn they Flower in Iuly One Berry or Herb True Love See the Figure Tobacco there is not much of it Planted in New-England the Indians make use of a small kind with short round leaves called Pooke For Burns and Scalds With a strong decoction of Tobacco they Cure Burns and Scalds boiling it in Water from a Quart to a Pint then wash the Sore therewith and strew on the powder of dryed Tobacco Hollow Leaved Lavender is a Plant that grows in salt Marshes overgrown with Moss with one straight stalk about the bigness of an Oat straw better than a Cubit high upon the top-standeth one fantastical Flower the Leaves grow close from the root in shape like a Tankard hollow tough and alwayes full of Water the Root is made up of many small strings growing only in the Moss and not in the Earth the whole Plant comes to its perfection in August and then it has Leaves Stalks and Flowers as red as blood excepting the Flower which hath some yellow admixt I wonder where the knowledge of this Plant hath slept all this while i. e. above Forty Years For all manner of Fluxes It is excellent for all manner of Fluxes Live for ever a kind of Cad weed Tree Primerose taken by the Ignorant for Scabious A Solar Plant as some will have it Maiden Hair or Cappellus veneris verus which ordinarily is half a Yard in height The Apothecaries for shame now will substitute Wall-R●…e no more for Maiden Hair since it grows in abundance in New-England from whence they may have good store Pirola Two kinds See the Figures both of them excellent Wound Herbs Homer's Moll●…y Lysimachus or Loose Strife it grows in dry grounds in the open Sun four

foot high Flowers from the middle of the Plant to the top the Flowers purple standing upon a small sheath or cod which when it is ripe breaks and puts forth a white silken doun the stalk is red and as big as ones Finger Marygold of Peru of which there are two kinds one bearing black seeds the other black and white streak'd this beareth the fairest flowers commonly but one upon the very top of the stalk Treacle-Berries See before Salomons Seal Oak of Hierusalem See before Oak of Cappadocea See before Earth-Nuts differing much from those in England one sort of them bears a most beautiful Flower For the Scurvy and Dropsie Sea-Tears they grow upon the Sea banks in abundance they are good for the Scurvy and Dropsie boiled and eaten as a Sallade and the broth drunk with it Indian Beans better for Physick use than other Beans Indian Beans falsly called French beans are better for Physick and Chyrurgery than our Garden Beans Probatum est Squashes but more truly Squonte●… squashes a kind of Mellon or rather Gourd for they oftentimes degenerate into Gourds some of these are green some yellow some longish like a Gourd others round like an Apple all of them pleasant food boyled and buttered and season'd with Spice but the yellow Squash called an Apple Squash because like an Apple and about the bigness of a Pome-water is the best kind they are much eaten by the Indians and the English yet they breed the small white Worms which Physitians call Ascarides in the long ●…ut that vex the Fundament with a perpetual itching and a desire to go to stool Water-Mellon it is a large Fruit but nothing near so big as a Pompion colour smoother and of a sad Grass green rounder or more rightly Sap-green with some yellowness admixt when ripe the seeds are black the flesh or pulpe exceeding juicy For heat and thirst in Feavers It is often given to those sick of Feavers and other hot Diseases with good success New-England Daysie or Primrose is the second kind of Navel Wort in Iohnson upon Gerard it flowers in May and grows amongst Moss upon hilly Grounds and Rocks that are shady For Burns and Scalds It is very good for Burns and Scalds An Achariston or Medicine deserving thanks An Indian whose Thumb was swell'd and very much inflamed and full of pain increasing and creeping along to the wrist with little black spots under the Thumb against the Nail I Cured it with this Umbellicus veneris Root and all the Yolk of an Egg and Wheat flower f. Cataplasme Briony of Peru we call it though it grown hear or rather Scamnony some take it for Mech●…acan The green Juice is absolutely Poyson yet the Root when dry may safely be given to strong Bodies Red and Black Currence See before Wild Damask Roses single but very large and sweet but stiptick Sweet ●…ern the Roots run one within another like a Net being very long and spreading abroad under the upper crust of the Earth sweet in taste but withal astringent much hunted after by our Swine The Scotch-men that are in New-England have told me that it grows in Scotland For Fluxes The People boyl the tender tops in Molosses Beer and in Possets for Fluxes for which it is excellent Sarsaparilia a Plant not yet sufficiently known by the English Some say it is a kind of Bind Weed we have in New-England two Plants that go under the name of Sarsaparilia the one not above a foot in height without Thorns the other having the same Leaf but is a shrub as high as a Goose Berry Bush and full of sharp Thorns this I esteem as the right by the shape and savour of the Roots but rather by the effects answerable to that we have from other parts of the World It groweth upon dry Sandy banks by the Sea side and upon the banks of Rivers so far as the Salt water flowes and within Land up in the Country as some have reported Bill Berries two kinds Black and Sky Coloured which is more frequent To cool the heat of Feavers and quench Thirst. They are very good to allay the burning heat of Feavers and hot Agues either in Syrup or Conserve A most excellent Summer Dish They usually eat of them put into a Bason with Milk and sweetned a little more with Sugar and Spice or for cold Stomachs in Sack The Indians dry them in the Sun and sell them to the English by the Bushell who make use of them instead of Currence putting of them into Puddens both boyled and baked and into Water Gr●…el Knot Berry or Clowde Berry seldom ripe Sumach differing from all that I did ever see in the Herbalists our English Cattle devour it most abominably leaving neither Leaf nor Branch yet it sprou●…s again next Spring For Colds The English use to boyl it in Beer and drink it for Colds and so do the Indians from whom the English had the Medicine Wild Cherry they grow in clusters like Grapes of the same bigness blackish red when ripe and of a harsh taste For Fluxes They are also good for Fluxes Transplanted and manured they grow exceeding fair Board Pine is a very large Tree two or three Fadom about For Wounds It yields a very soveraign Turpentine for the Curing of desperate Wounds For Stabbs The Indians make use of the Moss boiled in Spring Water for Stabbs pouring in the Liquor and applying the boiled Moss well stamp'd or beaten betwixt two stones For Burning and Scalding And for Burning and Scalding they first take out the fire with a strong decoction of Alder Bark then they lay upon it a Playster of the Bark of Board Pine first boyled tender and beat to a Playster betwixt two stones To take Fire out of a Burn. One Christopher Luxe a Fisher-man having burnt his Knee Pan was healed again by an Indian Webb or Wife for so they call those Women that have Husbands She first made a strong decoction of Alder bark with which she took out the Fire by Imbrocation or letting of it drop upon the Sore which would smoak notably with it then she Playstered it with the Bark of Board Pine or Hemlock Tree boyled soft and stampt betwixt two stones till is was as thin as brown Paper and of the same Colour she annointed the Playster with Soyles Oyl and the Sore likewise then she laid it on warm and sometimes she made use of the bark of the Larch Tree To eat out proud Flesh in a Sore And to eat out the proud Flesh they take a kind of Earth Nut boyled and stamped and last of all they apply t●… the Sore the Roots of Water Lillies boiled and stamped betwixt two stones to a Playster For Stitches The Firr Tree or Pitch Tree the Tar that is made of all sorts of Pitch Wood is an excellent thing to take away those desperate Stitches of the Sides which perpetually afflicteth those poor People that are stricken with the Plague of the Back Note