Selected quad for the lemma: water_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
water_n	boil_v	let_v	strain_v	4,125	5	10.4278	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67689	An impartial description of Surinam upon the continent of Guiana in America with a history of several strange beasts, birds, fishes, serpents, insects and customs of that colony, etc. / worthy the perusal of all, from experience of George Warren ...	Warren, George, 17th cent.	1667 (1667)	Wing W970; ESTC R6956	16,255	34

be healthful enough to temperate sound bodies The most common Diseases incident to it are the Feaver and Ague the Yawes and the Dropsie call'd there the Country Disease With the first the People were not a little Afflicted at their first setling I believe occasion'd rather by bad Lodging and worse Diet than any natural Intemperature of the Climate The Yawes is the same with or but little differing from the French-Pox 't is too frequently Caught by Coition with Indian-Women to whom 't is no less natural than any other Malady and which by the Mediation of the Spaniard is become no Stranger to almost every part of Europe 't will breed also there from any Sore which if not carefully look'd after such is the Malignity of the Country to things of that nature Converts into that most loathsome and not easily cur'd mischief The Dropsie or Country-Disease is I think acquired by that unwholsome flashy kind of nourishment which from the hardness of the place and penury of Masters poor Servants are forc'd to make a shift with for I never observed any but such have it which lighting upon dull un-active Spirits drives them into a melancholy Carelesness of themselves and for want of vigour and liveliness to expel those moist humours which such tempers in that Country do abundantly Contract they perish being hardly recoverable unless taken at the very beginning of the Distemper The Land next the Rivers mouth is low woody and full of Swanyes One but about thirty Leagues up high and mountainous having plain Fields of a vast Extent here and there beautified with small Groves like Islands in a Green Sea amongst whose still flourishing Trees 't is incomparably pleasant to consider the delightful Handy-works of Nature express'd in the variety of those pretty Creatures which with Ridiculous Antick Gestures disport themselves upon the Branches There is a constant Spring and Fall some leaves Dropping and others succeeding in their Places But the Trees are never quite divested of their Summer Livery Some have always Blossoms and the several degrees of Fruit at once The Sense of Smelling may at any time enjoy a full delight amongst the Woods which disperse their Aromatick Odours a good distance from the Land to the no little Pleasure of the Sea-tired Passenger The various productions of Insects from the heat and moisture is admirable in that Country I have observed a white Speck at first no bigger than a Pins-Head upon a new-sprung soft Excrescency from the Root of a Great Tree which by degrees in two or three dayes has grown to a kind of Butter-flye with fair painted black and Saffron-Coloured Wings I have found others not quite perect sticking upon the Bodies of Trees as it were incorporated into the Wood it self There is another called a Cammel-Flye from its long neck how Generated I know not which has its Wings like small Leaves and having lived a while at length lights upon the ground takes Root and is transformed into a Plant. This I relate not from any certain Knowledge of my own but I was encouraged to insert it from the Information of the Honourable William Byam Lord General of Guiana and Governour of Surinam who I am sure is too much a Gentleman to be the Author of a Lye Many more Observations of this Nature no doubt I might have made if the vanity of my years would have suffered me to mind it The Government is Monarchical an Imitation of ours by a Governour Council and Assembly the Laws of England are also theirs to which are added some by Constitutions no less oblieging proper to the Conveniencies of that Country CHAP. III. Of the Provisions WHICH are Yames Plantons and Cassader for Bread The first is a Root bearing a Bine not unlike to a Hop 't is Ripe in Eight Months and being boyl'd or roasted is drie and crumbly it has no bad taste because it has none at all that ever I could find in 't The Planton is a Fruit of a Tree but of Twelve Months growth 't is almost like a Bean-Cod but bigger they hang Forty or Fifty in a Bunch of which the Tree bears no more than One at a time and being gather'd before quite ripe are also either boyl'd or roasted and in my opinion not much more excellent than the former The last which indeed may most properly be termed Bread is also a Root ordinarily almost as thick as a Man's Leg but of various Forms it bears a small Tree about Eight foot high and becomes fit to draw in Twelve Months when 't is Replanted with Sticks of its own laid in the Ground The Root is taken scrap'd and then press'd from its Juice which is rank Poyson and after bak'd upon Stones in Round Cakes half an Inch thick when 't is new made 't is pleasant enough but by that time 't is a day old methinks there 's little savour in 't Of this the Indians make divers kinds of Inebriating Drinks one whereof call'd Perrinoe is truly good and neerly resembles our strongest March-Beer which has been preserv'd to a Twelve-month staleness But the relation of their manner of Brewing it will I believe Rebate the edge of any one's desire here which perhaps might be otherwise sharp enough to taste it First they take Cassader-Bread bak'd for that purpose very black which the oldest Women and snotty Nose Children chaw in their Mouths and with as much Spittle as they can throw into a Jar of Water so letting it stand a while then strain the Bread from it and with some Chaw'd Potatoes set it a working which becomes fit to drink in few days The English Planters make their Cool Drink of the Juice of Sugar-Canes and Water boyl'd together a most pleasant Liquor and suppos'd wholsom Of Flesh and Fish they receive Constant Supplies from New-England Virginia and other places though the Woods and Rivers are not unfurnish'd of sufficient quantities but the incessant Rains and over-flowes of water hinder their being taken Considerably save in the day time when no body need Complain of Want that can but take a little pains to Catch it The Fish may justly be reputed Comparable to ours but a not very Curious Palate may easily discern how much better the Flesh of England is than the same kinds in those hotter Countries that breed there being observ'd to be for the most part flashy and insipid Hogs only excepted which are far better and sweeter than amongst us At one time of the year also are taken Tortoises not those whose Shells are so highly valu'd here upon the Sea-Coast weighing two or three hundred pounds a piece The Females are Accounted best who have commonly a Peck of Eggs at once in their Bellies each as big as a Hens but hardly so good which they come out of the Water to lay in the Sand where they Cover and leave them to be hatch'd by the Sun's heat The Flesh of these Salted I think nothing but an invincible necessity can