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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-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

and thrusting up another It is taken to be poysonous they are very common and found thrown up on the Rocks by the Sea side Sea Bream which are plentifully taken upon the Sea Coasts their Eyes are accounted rare Meat whereupon the proverbial comparison It is worth a Sea Breams Eye Blew Fish or Horse I did never see any of them in England they are as big usually as the Salmon and better Meat by far It is common in New-England and esteemed the best sort of Fish next to Rock Cod. Cat Fish having a round Head and great glaring Eyes like a Cat They lye for the most part in holes of Rocks and are discovered by their Eyes It is an excelling Fish Munk Fish a flat Fish like scate having a hood like a Fryers Cowl Clam or Clamp a kind of Shell Fish a white Muscle An Acharistor For Pin and Web. Sheath Fish which are there very plentiful a delicate Fish as good as a Pr●…wa covered with a thin Shell like the sheath of a Knife and of the colour of a Muscle Which shell Calcin'd and Pulveriz'd is excellent to take off a Pin and Web or any kind of Filme growing over the Eye Morse or Sea Horse having a great Head wide Jaws armed with Tushes as white as Ivory of body as big as a Cow proportioned like a Hog of brownish bay smooth skin'd and impenetrable they are frequent at the Isle of Sables their Teeth are worth eight Groats the Pound the best Ivory being Sold but for half the Money For Poyson It is very good against Poyson For the Cramp As also for the Cramp made into Rings For the Piles And a secret for the Piles if a wise Man have the ordering of it The Manaty a Fish as big as a Wine pipe most excellent Meat bred in the Rivers of Hispaniola in the West Indies it hath Teats and nourisheth its young ones with Milk it is of a green Colour and tasteth like Veal For the Stone Collick There is a Stone taken out of the Head that is rare for the Stone and Collect. To provoke Urine Their Bones beat to a Powder and drank with convenient Liquors is a gallant Urin provoking Medicine For Wound and Bruise An Indian whose Knee was bruised with a fall and the Skin and Flesh strip'd down to the middle of the Calf of his Leg Cured himself with Water Lilly Roots boyled and stamped For Swellings of the Foot An Indian Webb her Foot being very much swell'd and inflamed asswaged the swelling and took away the inflamation with our Garden or English Patience the Roots roasted f. Cataplas Anno 1670. Iune 28. To dissolve a Scirrhous Tumour An Indian dissolv'd a Scirrhous Tumour in the Arm and Hip with a fomentation of Tobacco applying afterwards the Herb stamp'd betwixt two stones A DESCRIPTION OF AN INDIAN SQUA NOw gentle Reader having trespassed upon your patience a long while in the perusing of these rude Observations I shall to make you amends present you by way of Divertisement or Recreation with a Coppy of Verses made sometime since upon the Picture of a young and handsome Gypsie not improperly transferred upon the Indian SQUA or Female Indian trick'd up in all her bravery The Men are somewhat Horse Fac'd and generally Faucious i. e. without Beards but the Women many of them have very good Features seldome without a Come to me or Cos Amoris in their Countenance all of them black Eyed having even short Teeth and very white their Hair black thick and long broad Breasted handsome streight Bodies and slender considering their constant loose habit Their limbs cleanly straight and of a convenient stature generally as plump as Partridges and saving here and there one of a modest deportment Their Garments are a pair of Sleeves of Deer or Moose skin drest and drawn with lines of several Colours into Asiatick Works with Buskins of the same a short Mantle of Trading Cloath either Blew or Red fastened with a knot under the Chin and girt about the middle with a Zone wrought with white and blew Beads into pretty Works of these Beads they have Bracelets for their Neck and Arms and Links to hang in their Ears and a fair Table curiously made up with Beads likewise to wear before their Breast their Hair they Combe backward and tye it up short with a Border about two handfulls broad wrought in Works as the other with their Beads But enough of this The POEM WHether White or Black be best Call your Senses to the quest And your touch shall quickly tell The Black in softness doth excel And in smoothness but the Ear What can that a Colour hear No but 't is your Black ones Wit That doth catch and captive it And if Slut and Fair be one Sweet and Fair there can be none Nor can ought so please the tast As what 's brown and lovely drest And who'll say that that is best To please ones Sense displease the rest Maugre then all that can be sed In flattery of White and Red Those flatterers themselves must say That darkness was before the Day And such perfection here appears It neither Wind nor Sun-shine fears A Chronological TABLE Of the most remarkable passages in that part of America known to us by the name of NEW-ENGLAND ANno Dom. 1492. Christ. Columbus discovered America ANno Dom. 1516. The Voyage of Sir Thomas Pert Vice Admiral of England and Sir Sebastian Cabota to Brazile c. ANno Dom. 1527. New-found-Land discovered by the English ANno Dom. 1577. Sir Francis Drake began his Voyage about the World Anno Dom. 1585. Nova Albion discovered by Sir Francis Drake and by him so Named Anno Dom. 1585. April 9. Sir Richards Greenevile was sent by Sir Water Rawleigh with a Fleet of Seven Sail to Virginia and was stiled the General of Virginia Anno Dom. 1586. Captain Thomas Candish a Suffolk Gentleman began his Voyage round about the World with three Ships past the Streights of Magellan burn'd and ransack'd in the entry of Chile Peru and New-Spain near the great Island Callifornia in the South Sea and returned to Plymouth with a precious Booty Anno Dom. 1588. September the 8th being the third since Magellan that circuited the Earth Anno Dom. 1588. Sir Walter Rawleigh first discovered Virginia by him so Named in honour of our Virgin Queen Anno Dom. 1595. Sir Walter Rawleigh discovered Guiana Anno Dom. 1606. A Collony sent to Virginia Anno Dom. 1614. Bermudas Planted Anno Dom. 1618. The blazing Star then Plymouth Plantation began in New-England Anno Dom. 1628. The Massachusets Colony Planted and Salem the first Town therein Built Anno Dom. 1629. The first Church gathered in this Colony was at Salem from which Year to this present Year is 43 Years In the compass of these Years in this Colony there hath been gathered Fourty Churches and 120 Towns built in all the Colonies of New-England The Church of Christ at Plymouth was Planted in New-England