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A46301	An account of two voyages to New-England wherein you have the setting out of a ship, with the charges, the prices of all necessaries for furnishing a planter and his family at his first coming, a description of the countrey, natives, and creatures, with their merchantil and physical use, the government of the countrey as it is now possessed by the English, &c., a large chronological table of the most remarkable passages, from the first dicovering of the continent of America, to the year 1673 / by John Josselyn, Gent.	Josselyn, John, fl. 1630-1675.	1674 (1674)	Wing J1091; ESTC R20234	110,699	292

Jonas de ricino illo laetitia magna Ricinum that is palma Christi called also cucurbita and therefore translated a Gourd Tobacco or Tabacca so called from Tabaco or Tabag● one of the Caribbe-Islands about 50 English miles from Trinidad The right name according to Monardus is picielte as others will petum nicotian from Nicot a Portingal to whom it was presented for a raritie in Anno Dom. 1559. by one that brought it from Florida Great contest there is about the time when it was first brought into England some will have Sir John Hawkins the first others Sir Francis Drake's Mariners others again say that one Mr. Lane imployed by Sir Walter Rawleigh brought it first into England all conclude that Sir Walter Rawleigh brought it first in use It is observed that no one kind of forraign Commodity yieldeth greater advantage to the publick than Tobacco it is generally made the complement of our entertainment and hath made more slaves than Mahomet There is three sorts of it Marchantable the first horse Tobacco having a br●ad long leaf piked at the end the second round pointed Tobacco third sweet scented Tobacco These are made up into Cane leaf or ball there is little of it planted in New-England neither have they learned the right way of curing of it It is sowen in April upon a bed of rich mould sifted they make a bed about three yards long or more according to the ground they intend to plant and a yard and a half over this they tread down hard then they sow their seed upon it as thick as may be and sift fine earth upon it then tread it down again as hard as possible they can when it hath gotten four or six leaves they remove in into the planting ground when it begins to bud towards flowring they crop off the top for the Flower drawes away the strength of the leaf For the rest I refer you to the Planter being not willing to discover their mysteries The Indians in New England use a small round leafed Tobacco called by them or the Fishermen Poke It is odious to the English The vertues of Tobacco are these it helps digestion the Gout the Tooth-ach prevents infection by scents it heats the cold and cools them that sweat feedeth the hungry spent spirits restoreth purgeth the stomach killeth nits and lice the juice of the green leaf healeth green wounds although poysoned the Syrup for many diseases the smoak for the Phthisick cough of the lungs distillations of Rheume and all diserses of a cold and moist cause good for all bodies cold and moist taken upon an emptie stomach taken upon a full stomach it precipitates digestion immoderately taken it dryeth the body enflameth the bloud hurteth the brain weakens the eyes and the sinews White Hellebore is used for the Scurvie by the English A friend of mine gave them first a purge then conserve of Bear-berries then sumed their leggs with vinegar sprinkled upon a piece of mill-stone made hot and applied to the sores white Hellebore leaves drink made of Orpine and sorrel were given likewise with it and Seascurvie-grass To kill lice boil the roots of Hellebore in milk and anoint the hair of the head therewith or other places Mandrake is a very rare plant the Indians know it not it is found in the woods about Pascataway they do in plain terms stink therefore Reubens-Flowers that he brought home were not Mandrakes Gen. 30.14 15 16. They are rendered in the Latine Amabiles flores the same word say our Divines is used in Canticles 7.4 Amabiles istos flores edentes odorem secundum ostia nostra omnes pretiosos fructus recentes simulac veteres dilecte mi repono tibi So that the right translation is Reuben brought home amiable and sweet smelling Flowers this in the Canticles say they expounding the other Calamus Aromaticus or the sweet smelling reed it Flowers in July see New-Englands rarities Sarsaparilla or roughbind-weed as some describe it the leaves and whole bind set with thorns of this there is store growing upon the banks of Pouds See the rarities of New-England The leaves of the Sarsaparilla there described pounded with Hogs grease and boiled to an unguent is excellent in the curing of wounds Live for ever it is a kind of Cud-weed flourisheth all summer long till cold weather comes in it growes now plentifully in our English Gardens it is good for cough of the lungs and to cleanse the breast taken as you do Tobacco and for pain in the head the decoction or the juice strained and drunk in Bear Wine or Aqua vitae killeth worms The Fishermen when they want Tobacco take this herb being cut and dryed Lysimachus or Loose-strife there are several kinds but the most noted is the yellow Lysimachus of Virginia the root is longish and white as thick as ones thumb the stalkes of an overworn colour and a little hairie the middle vein of the leaf whitish the Flower yellow and like Primroses and therefore called Tree-primrose growes upon seedie vessels c. The first year it growes not up to a stalke but sends up many large leaves handsomely lying one upon another Rose fashion Flowers in June the seed is ripe in August this as I have said is taken by the English for Scabious St. John's wort it preserveth Cheese made up in it at Sea Spurge or Wolfes milch there are several sorts Avens or herb-bennet you have an account of it in New-Englands rarities but one thing more I shall add that you may plainly perceive a more masculine quality in the plants growing in New-England A neighbour of mine in Hay-time having over-heat himself and melted his grease with striving to outmowe another man fell dangerously sick not being able to turn himself in his bed his stomach gon and his heart fainting ever and anon to whom I administred the decoction of Avens-Roots and leaves in water and wine sweetning it with Syrup of Clove-Gilliflowers in one weeks time it recovered him so that he was able to perform his daily work being a poor planter or husbandman as we call them Red-Lilly growes all over the Countrey amongst the bushes Mr. Johnson upon Gerard takes the Tulip to be the Lilly of the field mentioned by our Saviour Matth. 6.28 29. Ac de vestitu quid soliciti estis discite quomodo lilia agrorum augescant non fatigantur neque nent sed dico vobis ne Solomonem quidem cum universa gloria sic amictum fuisse ut unum ex istis Solomon in all his Royalty was not like one of them His reasons are first from the shape like a lilly The second because those places where 〈◊〉 Savio●r was conversant they grow wild in the fields Third the infinite variety of the colours The fourth and last reason the wondrous beautie and mixture of these Flowers Water-lillys the black roots dryed and pulverized are wondrous effectual in the stopping of all manner of fluxes of the belly drunk with

●●●gions Non omnis fert omnia tellus The Walnut which is divers some bearing square nuts others like ours but smaller there is likewise black Walnut of precious use for Tables Cabinets and the like The Walnut-tree is the toughest wood in the Countrie and therefore made use of for Hoops and Bowes there being no Yew there growing In England they made their Bowes usually of Witch Hasel Ash Yew the best of outlandish Elm but the Indians make theirs of Walnut The Line-tree with long nuts the other kind I could never find the wood of this Tree Laurel Rhamnus Holly and Ivy are accounted for woods that cause fire by attrition Laurel and Ivy are not growing in New-England the Indians will rub two sear'd sticks of any sort of wood and kindle a fire with them presently The Maple-tree on the boughs of this Tree I have often found a jellied substance like Jewes-Ears which I found upon tryal to be as good for fore throats c. The Birch-tree is of two kinds ordinary Birch and black Birch many of these Trees are stript of their bark by the Indians who make of it their Canows Kettles and Birchen-dishes there is an excrescence growing out of the body of the Tree called spunck or dead mens Caps it growes at the Roots of Ash or Beech or Elm but the best is that which growes upon the black B●rch this boiled and beaten and then dried in an Oven maketh excellent Touchwood and Balls to play with Alder of which wood there is abundance in the wet swamps the bark thereof with the yolke of an Egg is good for a strain an Indian bruising of his knee chew'd the bark of Alder fasting and laid it to which quickly helped him The wives of our West-Countrey English make a drink with the seeds of Alder giving it to their Children troubled with the Alloes I have talk'd with many of them but could never apprehend what disease it should be they so name these Trees are called by some Sullinges The Indians tell of a Tree that growes for up in the land that is as big as an Oake that will cure the falling-sickness infallibly what part thereof they use Bark Wood leaves or fruit I could never learn they promised often to bring of it to me but did not I have seen a stately Tree growing here and there in valleys not like to any Trees in Europe having a smooth bark of a dark brown colour the leaves like great Maple in England called Sycamor but larger it may be this is the Tree they brag of Thus much concerning Trees now I shall present to your view the Shrubs and first of the Sumach Shrub which as I have told you in New-Englands rarities differeth from all the kinds set down in our English Herbal● the root dyeth wool or cloth reddish ●he decoction of the leaves in wine drunk is good for all Fluxes of the belly in man or woman the whites c. For galled places stamp the leaves with honey and apply it nothing so soon healeth a wound in the head as Sumach stampt and applyed once in three dayes the powder strewed in stayeth the bleeding of wounds The seed of Sumach pounded and mixt with honey healeth the Hemorrhoids the gum put into a hollow tooth asswageth the pain the bark or berries in the fall of the leaf is as good as galls to make Ink of Elder in New-England is shurubbie dies once in two years there is a sort of dwars-Elder that growes by the Sea-side that hath a red pith the berries of both are smaller than English-Elder not round but corner'd neither of them small so strong as ours Juniper growes for the most part by the Sea-side it bears abundance of skie-coloured berries fed upon by Partridges and hath a woodie root which induceth me to believe that the plant mention'd in Job 30.4 Qui decerpebant herbas é salsilagine cum st●rpibus etiam radices Juniperorum cibo erant iliis was our Indian plant Cassava They write that Juniper-coals preserve fire longest of any keeping fire a whole year without supply yet the Indian never burns of i● Sweet fern see the rarities of New England the tops and nucaments of sweet forn boiled in water or milk and drunk helpeth all manner of Fluxes being boiled in water it makes an excellent liquor for Inck. Current-bu●hes are of two kinds red and black the black cur●ents which are larger than the red smell like cats piss yet are reasonable pleasant in eating The Gooseberry-bush the berry of which is called Grosers or thorn Grapes grow all over the Countrie the berry is but small of a red or purple colour when ripe There is a small shrub which is very common growing sometimes to the height of Elder bearing a berry like in shape to the fruit of the white thorn of a pale yellow colour at frist then red when it is ripe of a deep purple of a delicate Aromatical ●●st somewhat stiptick to conclude alwayes observe this rule in taking or resusing unknown fruit it you find them eaten of the fowl or beast you may boldly venture to eat of them otherwise do not touch them Maze otherwise called Turkie-wheat or rather Indian-wheat because it came first from thence the leaves boiled and drunk helpeth pain in the back of the stalkes when they are green you may make Beverage as they do with Calamels or Sagarcanes The raw Corn chewed ripens felons or Cats hairs or you may lay Samp to it The Indians before it be thorow ripe eat of it parched Certainly the parched Corn that Abigail brought to David was of this kind of grain 1 Sam. 25.18 The Jewes manner was as it is delivered to us by a learned Divine first to parch their Corn then they fryed it and lastly they bailed it to a paste and then tempered it with water Cheese-Curds H●ncy and Eggs this they carried drye with them to the Camp and so wet the Cakes in Wine or milk such was the pulse too of Africa French-beans or rather American-beans the Heabalists call them kidney beans from their shape and effects for they strengthen the kidneys they are variegated much some being bigger a great deal than others some white black red yellow blew spotted besides your Bonivis and Calavances and the kidney-bean that is proper to Ronoake but these are brought into the Countrie the other are natural to the climate So the Mexico pompion which is flat and deeply camphered the flesh laid to asswageth pain of the eyes The water-mellon is proper to the Countrie the flesh of it is of a flesh colour a rare cooler of Feavers and excellent against the stone Pomum spinosum and palma-Christi too growes not here unless planted brought from Peru the later is thought to be the plant that shaded Jonah the Prophet Jonas 4.6 Paraverat enim Jehova Deus ricinum qui ascenderet supra Jonam ut esset umbra super caput ejus ereptura eum à malo ipsius laetabaturque

LICENSED BY Roger L'estrange Novemb. the 28. 1673. AN ACCOUNT OF TWO VOYAGES TO NEW-ENGLAND Wherein you have the setting out of a Ship with the charges The prices of all necessaries for furnishing a Planter and his Family at his first coming A Description of the Countrey Natives and Creatures with their Merchantil and Physical use The Government of the Countrey as it is now possessed by the English c. A large Chronological Table of the most remarkable passages from the first discovering of the Continent of America to the year 1673. By John Josselyn Gent. Memner distich rendred English by Dr. Heylin Heart take thine ease Men hard to please Thou haply might'st offend Though one speak ill Of thee some will Say better there 's an end London Printed for Giles Widdows at the Green-Dragon in St. Paul's-Church-yard 1674. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE AND MOST ILLUSTRIOUS THE President Fellows OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY The following Account of Two VOYAGES TO New-England Is Most Humbly presented By the Authour John Josselyn To the Reader YOV are desired by the Authour to correct some literal faulis which by reason of the raggedness of the Copy have been committed G. Widdows ERRATA PAge 4. line 10. for So tler read So●●ler p. 8. l. 9. f●r fu'd r. i●'d p. 12. l. 28. for pound r. pint p. 15. l. 11. for Two pound r. Two shillings p. 16 l. 27. for h●ads r. steels p. 88. l. 3. to the 18 is misplaced it shou'd come in the next page in the beginning of the 10 l. a●ter contricute your belief p. 89. l. 14. for horns r. horn p. 89. l. 17. for lo r. law p. 97. l. 9 for this r. his p. 98. l. 13. for then r. still p. 110. for point r. joynt p. 114. l. 9. for it will r. that will p. 115. l. 2. for conveniam r. conveniant p. 132. l 7. for with r. in p. 153. for Auravia r. A ra●ia p. 154. l. 11. for Longlace r. Lovelace p. 180. l. 9. r. true Religion p. 181. l. 16. for main travelling Women r. many strange Women some stops and points to are not right as p. 181. l. 4. the stop should be at onely so p. 181. l. 30. the stop should be after evil eye p. 201. l. 2. it must be at low water p. 191. l. 1. r. 1624. p. 197. l. 13. r. T●a●●oes p. 202. l. 17. r. Aconenticus p. 229. l. 21. for and r. who p. 252. l. 10. r. Thomas Dud●y Isa●● Johnson Esquires p. 274. l. 13. and 14.1 Buccan●rs A RELATION OF TWO VOYAGES TO New-England The first Voyage ANNO Dom. 1638. April the 26th being Thursday I came to Gravesend and went aboard the New Supply alias the Nicholas of London a Ship of good force of 300 Tuns burden carrying 20 Sacre and Minion man'd with 48 Sailers the Master Robert Taylor the Merchant or undertaker Mr. Edward Tinge with 164 Passengers men women and children At Gravesend I began my Journal from whence we departed on the 26. of April about Six of the clock at night and went down into the Hope The 27. being Fryday we set sail out of the Hope and about Nine of the clock at night we came to an Anchor in Ma●garet-Road in three fathom and a half water by the way we past a States man of war of 500 Tun cast away a month before upon the Goodwin nothing remaining visible above water but her main mast top 16 o● her men were drowned the rest saved by Fishermen The 28. we twined into the Downs where Captain Clark one of His Majesties Captains in the Navy came aboard of us in the afternoon and prest two of our Trumpeters Here we had good store of Flounders from the Fishermen new taken out of the Sea and living which being readily gutted were fry'd while they were warm me thoughts I never tasted of a delicater Fish in all my life before The Third of May being Ascension day in the afternoon we weighed out of the Downs the wind at E. and ran down into Dover Road and lay by the lee whilst they sent the Skiffe ashore for one of the Masters mates by the way we past Sandwich in the Hope Sandown-Castle Deal So we steered away for Doniesse from thence we steered S. W. ½ S. for the Beachie about one of the clock at night the wind took us a stayes with a gust rain thunder and lightning and now a Servant of one of the passengers sickned of the small pox The Fifth day in the afternoon we Anchored the Isle of Wight W.N.W. 10 leagues off Beachie E. N. E. 8 leagues off rode in 32 fathom-water at low water at 8 of the clock at night the land over the Needles bore N. W. 4 leagues off we steered W. afore the Start at noon the Boult was N. W. by W. about 3½ leagues off we were becalmed from 7 of the clock in the morning till 12 of the clock at noon where we took good store of Whitings and half a score Gurnets this afternoon an infinite number of Porpisces shewed themselves above water round about the Ship as far as we could kenn the night proved tempestuous with much lightning and thunder The Sixth day being Sunday at five of the clock at night the Lizard was N. W. by W. 6 leagues off and the Blackhead which ●s to the westward of Falmouth was N. W. about 5 leagues off The Seventh day the uttermost part of Silly was N. E. 12 leagues off and now we ●egan to sail by the logg The Eighth day one Boremans man a passenger was duck'd at the main yards arm for being drunk with his Masters strong waters which he stole thrice and fire given to two whole Sacree at that instant Two mighty Whales we now saw the one spouted water through two great holes in her head into the Air a great height and making a great noise with pussing and blowing the Seamen called her a Soutler the other was further off about a league from the Ship fighting with the Sword-fish and the Flail-fish whose stroakes with a fin that growes upon her back like a flail upon the back of the Whale we heard with amazement when presently some more than half as far again we spied a spout from above it came pouring down like a River of water So that if they should light in any Ship she were in danger to be presently sunk down into the Sea and falleth with such an extream violence all whole together as one drop or as water out of a Vessel and dured a quarter of an hour making the Sea to boyle like a pot and if any Vessel be near it sucks it in I saw many of these spouts afterwards at nearer distance In the afternoon the Mariners struck a Porpisce called also a Marsovius or Sea-hogg with an● harping Iron and hoisted her aboard they cut some of it into thin pieces and fryed it tasts like rusty Bacon or hung Beef if not worse but the Liver

wine or water Herba-paris one berry herb true love or four-leaved night-shade the leaves are good to be laid upon hot tumours Vmbiticus veneris or New-England daisie it is good for hot humours Erisipelas St. Anthonie's fire all inflammations Glass-wort a little quantity of this plant you may take for the Dropsie but be very careful that you take not too much for it worketh impetuously Water-plantane called in New-England water Suck-leaves and Scurvie-leaves you must lay them whole to the leggs to draw out water between the skin and the flesh Rosa-solis Sun-dew moor-grass this plant I have seen more of than ever I saw in my whole life before in England a man may gather upon some marish-grounds an incr●dible quantity in a short time towards the middle of June it is in its season for then its spear is shot out to its length of which they take hold and pull the whole plant up by the roots from the moss with case Amber-greese I take to be a Mushroom see the rarities of New-England Monardus writeth that Amber greese riseth out of a certain clammy and bituminous earth under the Seas and by the Sea-side the billows casting up part of it a land and fish devour the rest Some say it is the seed of a Whale others that it springeth from fountains as pitch doth which fishes swallow down the air congealeth it And sometimes it is found in the crevises and corners of Rocks Fuss-balls Mullipuffes called by the Fishermen Wolves-farts are to be found plentifully and those bigger by much than any I have seen in England Coraline there is infinite store of it cast upon the shore and another plant that is more spinie of a Red colour and as hard as Corral Coraline laid to the gout easeth the pain Sea-Oake or wreach or Sea-weed the black pouches of O●r-weed dryed and pulverized and drunk with White-wine is an excellent remedy for the stone I will finish this part of my relation concerning plants with an admirable plant for the curing and taking away of Corns which many times sore troubleth the Traveller it is not above a handful high the little branches are woodie the leaves like the leaves of Box but broader and much thicker hard and of a deep grass-green colour this bruised or champt in the mouth and laid upon the Corn will take it away clean in one night And observe all Indian Trees and plants their Roots are but of small depth and so they must be set Of Beasts of the earth there be scarce 120 several kinds and not much more of the Fowls of the Air is the opinion of some Naturalists there are not many kinds of Beasts in New-England they may be divided into Beasts of the Chase of the stinking foot as Roes Foxes Jaccals Wolves Wild-cats Racoons Porcupines Squncks Musquashes Squirrels Sables and Mattrises and Beasts of the Chase of the sweet foot Buck Red Dear Rain Dear Elke Marouse Maccarib Bear Beaver Otter Marten Hare The Roe a kind of Deer and the fleetest Beast upon earth is here to be found and is good venison but not over fat The Fox the male is called a dog-fox the female a bitch-fox they go a clicketing the beginning of the spring and bring forth their Cubs in May and June There are two or three kinds of them one a great yellow Fox another grey who will climb up into Trees the black Fox is of much esteem Foxes and Wolves are usually hunted in England from Holy-Rood day till the Annunciation In New-England they make best sport in the depth of winter they lay a sledg-load of Cods-heads on the other side of a paled fence when the moon shines and about nine or ten of the clock the Foxes come to it sometimes two or three or half a dozen and more these they shoot and by that time they have cased them there will be as many So they continue shooting and killing of Foxes as long as the moon shineth I have known half a score kill'd in one night Their pisles are bonie like a doggs their fat liquified and put into the ears easeth the pain their tails or bushes are very fair ones and of good use but their skins are so thin yet thick set with deep ●urr that they will hardly hold the dressing Jaccals there be abundance which is a Creature much like a Fox but smaller they ●re very frequent in Palaestina or the Holy-●and The Wolf seeketh his mate and goes a ●licketing at the same season with Foxes and bring forth their whelps as they do but ●heir kennels are under thick bushes by great Trees in remote places by the swamps he is to be hunted as the Fox from Holy●ood day till the Annunciation But there they have a quicker way to destroy them See New-England rarities They commonly go in routs a rout of Wolves is 12 or more sometimes by couples In 1664. we sound a Wolf asleep in a small dry swamp under an Oake a great mastiff which we had with us seized upon him and held him till we had put a rope about his neck by which we brought him home and tying of him to a stake we bated him with smaller Doggs and had excellent sport but his hinder legg being broken they knockt out his brains Sometime before this we had an excellent course after a single Wolf upon the hard sands by the Sea-side at low water for a mile or two at last we lost our doggs it being as the Lancashire people phrase it twi-l●ght that is almost dark and went beyond them for a mastiff-bitch had seized upon the Wolf being gotten into the Sea and there held him till one went in and led him out the bitch keeping her hold till they had tyed his leggs and so carried him home like a Calf upon a staff between two men being brought into the house they unbound him and set him upon his leggs h● not offering in the least to bite or so much as to shew his teeth but clapping his stern betwixt his leggs and leering towards the door would willingly have had his liberty but they served him as they did the other knockt his brains out for our doggs were not then in a condition to bate him their eyes shine by night as a Lanthorn the Fangs of a Wolf hung about childrens necks keep them from frighting and are very good to rub their gums with when they are breeding of Teeth the gall of a Wolf is Soveraign for swelling of the sinews the fiants or dung of a Wolf drunk with white-wine helpeth the Collick The Wild-cat Lusern or luceret or Ounce as some call it is not inferiour to Lamb their grease is very soveraign for lameness upon taking cold The Racoon or Rattoon is of two sorts gray Rattoons and black Rattoons their grease is soveraign for wounds with bruises aches streins bruises and to anoint after broken bones and dislocations The Squnck is almost as big as a Racoon perfect black and white or pye-bald with a

Weyre at all saving a few stones to stop the passage of the River above ten thousand The Italian hath a proverb that he that hath seen one miracle will easily believe another but this relation far from a miracle will peranter meet instead of a belief with an Adulterate construction from those that are somewhat akin to St. Peters mockers such as deny the last judgement I have known in England 9 score and 16 Pikes and Pickarel taken with three Angles between the hours of three and ten in the morning in the River Owse in the Isle of Ely three quarters of a yard long above half of them they make red Alewives after the same manner as they do herrins and are as good The Basse is a salt water fish too but most an end taken in Rivers where they spawn there hath been 3000 Basse taken at a set one writes that the fat in the bone of a Basses head is his braines which is a lye The Salmon likewise is a Sea-fish but as the Basse comes into R●vers to spawn a Salmon the first year is a Salmon-sm●lt The second a Mort The third a Sp●●il The fourth a Soar The fi●th a S●r●el The sixth a forket tail and the seventh year a Salmon There are another sort of Salmon frequent in those parts called white Salmons Capeling is a small fish like a smelt The Turtle or Tortoise is of two sorts Sea Turtles and land Turtles of Sea Turtles there are five sorts of land Turtles three sorts one of which is a right land Turtles that seldom or never goes into the water the other two being the River Turtle and the pond Turtle there are many of these in the brooke Chyson in the Holy land The ashes of a Sea Turtle mixt with oyl or Bears-grease causeth hair to grow the shell of a land Turtle burnt and the ashes dissolved in wine and oyl to an unguent healeth chaps and sores of the feet the flesh burnt and the ashes mixt with wine and oyl healeth sore legs the ashes of the burnt shell and the whites of eggs compounded together healeth chaps in womens nipples and the head pulverized with it prevents the falling of the hair and will heal the Hemorrhoids first washing of them with white-wine and then strewing on the powder Lobster which some say is at first a whelk I have seen a Lobster that weighed twenty pound they cast their shell-coats in the spring and so do Crabs having underneath a thin red skin which growes thicker and hard in short time The Indians feed much upon this fish some they rost and some they dry as they do Lampres and Oysters which are delicate breakfast meat so ordered the Oysters are long shell'd I have had of them nine inches long from the point to the toe containing an Oyster like those the Latines called Tridacuan that were to be cut into three pieces before they could get them into their mouths very fat and sweet The Muscle is of two sorts Sea muscles in which they find Pearl and river muscles Sea muscles dryed and pulverized and laid upon the sores of the Piles and hemorrhoids with oyl will perfectly cure them The Whore is a shell-fish the shells are called whores-eggs being fine round white shells in shape like a Mexico pompion but no bigger than a good large Hens-egg they are wrought down the sides with little knobs and holes very prettily but are but thin and brittle The Perriwig is a shell-fish that ●●●●h in the Sands flat and round as a shovel-board piece and very little thicker these at a little hole in the middle of the shell thrust out a cap of hair but upon the least motion of any danger it drawes it in again Trouts there be good store in every brook ordinarily two and twenty inches long their grease is good for the Piles and clifts The Eal is of two sorts salt-water Eals and fresh-water Eals these again are distinguished into yellow bellied Eals and silver bellied Eals I never eat better Eals in no part of the world that I have been in than are here They that have no mind or leasure to take them may buy of an Indian half a dozen silver bellied Eals as big as those we usually give 8 pence or 12 pence a piece for at London for three pence or a groat There is several wayes of cooking them some love them roasted others baked and many will have them fryed but they please my palate best when they are boiled a common way it is to boil them in half water half wine with the bottom of a manchet a fagot of Parsley and a little winter savory when they are boiled they take them out and break the bread in the broth and put to it three or four spoonfuls of yest and a piece of sweet butter this they pour to their Eals laid upon sippets and so serve it up I fancie my way better which is this after the Eals are fley'd and washt I fill their bellies with Nutmeg grated and Cloves a little bruised and sow them up with a needle and thred then I stick a Clove here and there in their sides about an inch asunder making holes for them with a bodkin this done I wind them up in a wreath and put them into a kettle with half water and half white wine-vinegar so much as will rise four fingers above the Eals in midst of the Eals I put the bottom of a penny white loaf and a fagot of these herbs following Parsley one handful a little sweet Marjoram Peniroyal and Savory a branch of Rosemary bind them up with a thred and when they are boiled enough take out the Eals and pull out the threds that their bellies were sowed up with turn out the Nutmeg and Cloves put the Eals in a dish with butter and vinegar upon a chafing-dish with coals to keep warm then put into the broth three or four spoonfuls of good Ale-yeast with the juice of half a Lemmon but before you put in your yeast beat it in a porringer with some of the broth then break the crust of bread very small and mingle it well together with the broth pour it into a deep dish and garnish it with the other half of the Lemmon and so serve them up to the Table in two dishes The Frost fish is little bigger than a Gudgeon and are taken in fresh brooks when the waters are frozen they make a hole in the Ice about half a yard or yard wide to which the fish repair in great numbers where with small nets bound to a hoop about the bigness of a fiskin-hoop with a staff fastned to it they lade them out of the hole I have not done with the fish yet being willing to let you know all of them that are to be seen and catch'd in the Sea and fresh waters in New-England and because I will not tire your patience overmuch having no occasion to enlarge my discourse I shall only name them and

lying just in the middle betwixt the two poles being in compass from West to East 360 degrees every degree thereof on the terrestrial Globe valuing 20 English miles or 60 miles Into the Bay of St. Lawrence the River of St. Lawrence or Canada disimbogues it self a River far exceeding any River in the elder world thirty or forty mile over at the mouth and in the Channel one hundred fathom deep it runs on the back-side of New England and Virginia the French it is said have gone up six weeks voyage in it and have not yet discovered the spring-head the longitude is 334 degrees 11 seconds in 50 degrees 21 minutes of North latitude This may satisfie a modest Reader and I hope yield no offence to any I shall onely speak a word or two of the people in the province of Main and the Dukes province and so conclude The people in the province of Main may be divided into Magistrates Husbandmen or Planters and fishermen of the Magistrates some be Royalists the rest perverse Spirits the like are the planters and fishers of which some be planters and fishers both others meer fishers Handicrafts-men there are but few the Tumelor or Cooper Smiths and Carpenters are best welcome amongst them shop-keepers there are none being supplied by the Massachusets Merchants with all things they stand in need of keeping here and there fair Magazines stored with English goods but they set excessive prices on them if they do not gain Cent per Cent they cry out that they are losers hence English shooes are sold for Eight and Nine shillings a pair worsted stockins of Three shillings six pence a pair for Seven and Eight shillings a pair Douglass that is sold in England for one or two and twenty pence an ell for four shillings a yard Serges of two shillings or three shillings a yard for Six and Seven shillings a yard and so all sorts of Commodities both for planters and fishermen as Cables Cordage Anchors Lines Hooks Nets Canvas for Sails c. Bisket twenty five shillings a hundred Salt at an excessive rate pickled-herrin for winter bait Four and five pound a barrel with which they speed not so well as the waggish lad at Cape-porpus who baited his hooks with the drown'd Negro's buttocks so for Pork and Beef The planters are or should be restless pains takers providing for their Cattle planting and sowing of Corn fencing their grounds cutting and bringing home fuel cleaving of claw-board and pipe-staves fishing for fresh water fish and fowling takes up most of their time if not all the diligent hand maketh rich but if they be of a droanish disposition as some are they become wretchedly poor and miserable scarce able to free themselves and family from importunate famine especially in the winter for want of bread They have a custom of taking Tobacco sleeping at noon sitting long at meals sometimes four times in a day and now and then drinking a dram of the bottle extraodinarily the smoaking of Tobacco if moderately used refresheth the weary much and so doth sleep A Traveller five hours doth crave To sleep a Student seven will have And nine sleeps every Idle knave The Physician allowes but three draugh●s at a meal the first for need the second for pleasure and the third for sleep but little observed by them unless they have no other liquor to drink but water In some places where the springs are frozen up or at least the way to their springs made unpassable by reason of the snow and the like they dress their meat in Aqua Caelestis i. e. melted snow at other times it is very well cookt and they feed upon generally as good flesh Beef Pork Mutton Fowl and fish as any is in the whole world besides Their Servants which are for the most part English when they are out of their time will not work under half a Crown day although it be for to make hay and for less I do not see how they can by reason of the dearness of clothing If they hire them by the year they pay them Fourteen or Fifteen pound yea Twenty pound at the years end in Corn Cattle and fish some of these prove excellent fowlers bringing in as many as will maintain their masters house besides the profit that accrews by their feathers They use when it is to be had a great round shot called Barstable shot which is best for fowl made of a lead blacker than our common lead to six pound of shot they allow one pound of powder Cannon powder is esteemed best The fishermen take yearly upon the coasts many hundred kentals of Cod hake haddock polluck c. which they split salt and dry at their stages making three voyages in a year When they share their fish which is at the end of every voyage they separate the best from the worst the first they call M●rchantable fish being sound full grown fish and well made up which is known when it is clear like a Lanthorn horn and without spots the second sort they call refuse fish that is such as is salt burnt spotted rotten and carelesly ordered these they put off to the Massachusets Merchants the merchantable for thirty and two and thirty ryals a kental a kental is an hundred and twelve pound weight the refuse for Nine shillings and Ten shillings a kental the Merchant sends the merchantable fish to Lisbanne Bilbo Burdeaux Marsiles Tallo●n Rochel ●●an and other Cities of France to the Canaries with cla●-board and pipe-staves which is there and at the Charibs a prime Commodity the refuse fish they put off at the Charib-Islands Barbadoes Jamaica c. who seed their Negroes with it To every Shallop belong four fishermen a Master or Steersman a Midship-man and a Foremast-man and a shore man who washes it out of the salt and dries it upon hurdles pitcht upon stakes breast high and tends their Cookery these often get in one voyage Eight or Nine pound a man for their shares but it doth some of them little good for the Merchant to increase his gains by putting off his Commodity in the midst of their voyages and at the end thereof comes in with a walking Tavern a Bark laden with the Legitimate bloud of the rich grape which they bring from Phial Madera Canaries with Brandy Rhum the Barbadoes strong-water and Tobacco coming ashore he gives them a Taster or two which so charms them that for no perswasions that their imployers can use will they go out to Sea although fair and seasonable weather for two or three days nay sometimes a whole week till they are wearied with drinking taking ashore two or three Hogsheads of Wine and Rhum to drink off when the Merchant is gone If a man of quality chance to come where they are roystering and gulling in Wine with a dear selicity he must be sociable and Roly-poly with them taking off their liberal cups as freely or else be gone which is best for him for