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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

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

a great flea which I presume will make good Cutchenele ordered as they should be before they come to have Wings They make a perfect Scarlet Colour to Paint with and durable 4. Of such Plants as have sprung up since the English Planted and kept Cattle in New-England COuch Grass Shepherds Purse Dandelion Groundsel Sow Thistle Wild Arrach Night Shade with the white Flower Nettlesstinging which was the first Plant taken notice of Mallowes Plantain which the Indians call English-Mans Foot as though produced by their treading Black Henbane Wormwood Sharp pointed Dock Patience Bloodwort And I suspect Adders Tongue Knot Grass Cheek weed Compherie with the white Flower May weed excellent for the Mother some of our English Houswives call it Iron Wort and make a good Unguent for old Sores The great C●…ot Bur. Mullin with the white Flower Q. What became of the influence of those Planets that produce and govern these Planets before this time I have now done with such Plants as grow wild in the Country in great plenty although I have not mentioned all I shall now in the Fifth place give you to understand what English Herbs we have growing in our Gardens that prosper there as well as in their proper Soil and of such as do not and also of such as will not grow there at all 5. Of such Garden Herbs amongst us as do thrive there and of such as do not CAbbidge growes there exceeding well Lettice Sorrel Parsley Marygold French Mallowes Chervel Burnet Winter Savory Summer Savory Time Sage Carrats Parsnips of a prodigious size Red Beetes Radishes Turnips Purslain Wheat Rye Barley which commonly degenerates into Oats Oats Pease of all sorts and the best in the World I never heard of nor did see in eight Years time one Worm eaten Pea. Garden Beans Naked Oats there called Silpee an excellent grain used insteed of Oat Meal they dry it in an Oven or in a Pan upon the fire then beat it small in a Morter Another standing Dish in New-England And when the Milk is ready to boil they put into a pottle of Milk about ten or twelve spoonfuls of this Meal so boil it leasurely stirring of it every foot least it burn too when it is almost boiled enough they hang the Kettle up higher and let it stew only in short ●…ime it will thicken like a Custard they season it with a little Sugar and Spice and so serve it to the Table in deep Basons and it is altogether as good as a White-pot For People weakned with long Sickness It exceedingly nourisheth and strengthens people weakned with long Sickness Sometimes they make Water Gruel with it and sometimes thicken their Flesh Broth either with this or Homminey if it be for Servants Spear Mint Rew will hardly grow Fetherfew prospereth exceedingly Southern Wood is no Plant for this Country Nor Rosemary Nor Bayes White Satten groweth pretty well so doth Lavender Cotton But Lavender is not for the climate Penny Royal. Smalledge Ground ●…vy or Ale Hoof. Gilly Flowers will continue two Years Fennel must be taken up and kept in a warm Cellar all Winter Housleek prospereth notably Holly hocks Enula C panae in two Years time the Roots rot Comferie with white Flowers Coriander and Dill. and Annis thrive exceedingly but Annis Seed as also the Seed of Fennel seldom come to maturity the Seed of Annis is commonly eaten with a fly Clary never lasts but one Summer the Roots rot with the Frost Sparagus thrives exceedingly so does Garden Sorrel and Sweet Bryer or Eglantine Bloodwort but sorrily but Patience and English Roses very pleasantly Celandine by the West Country men called Kenning Wort grows but slowly Muschata as well as in England Dittander or Pepper Wort flourisheth notably and so doth Tansie Musk Mellons are better then our English and. Cucumbers Pompions there be of several kinds some proper to the Country ●…y are dryer then our English Pompions and better tasted you may eat them green The ancient New-England standing Dish But the Houswives manner is to slice them when ripe and cut them into dice and so fill a pot with them of two or three Gallons and stew them upon a gentle fire a whole day and as they sink they fill again with fresh Pompions not putting any liquor to them and when it is stew'd enough it will look like bak'd Apples this they Dish putting Butter to it and a little Vinegar with some Spice as Ginger c. which makes it tart like an Apple and so serve it up to be eaten with Fish or Flesh It provokes Urin extreamly and is very windy Sixthly and lastly Of Stones Minerals Metals and Earths AS first the Emrald which grows in flat Rocks and is very good Rubies which here are very watry I have heard a story of an Indian that found a stone up in the Country by a great Pond as big as an Egg that in a dark Night would give a light to read by but I take it to be but a story Diamond which are very brittle and therefore of little worth Crystal called by our West Country Men the Kenning Stone by Sebegug Pond is found in considerable quantity not far from thence is a Rock of Crystal called the Moose Rock because in shape like a Moose and Muscovy Glass both white and purple of reasonable content Black Lead Bole Armoniack Red and Yellow Oker Terra Sigilla Vitriol Antimony Arsnick too much Lead Tin Tin Glass Silver Iron in abundance and as good bog Iron as any in the World Copper It is reported that the French have a Copper Mine at Port Royal that yieldeth them twelve Ounces of pure Copper out of a Pound of Oar. I shall conclude this Section with a strange Cure effected upon a Drummers Wife much afflicted with a Wolf in her Breast the poor Woman lived with her Husband at a Town called by the Indians Casco but by the English Famouth where for some time she swaged the Pain of her Sore by bathing it with strong Malt Beer which it would suck in greedily as if some living Creature When she could come by no more Beer for it was brought from Boston along the Coasts by Merchants she made use of Rhum a strong Water drawn from Sugar Canes with which it was lull'd a sleep at last to be rid of it altogether she put a quantity of Arsnick to the Rhum and bathing of it as formerly she utterly destroyed it and Cured her self but her kind Husband who sucked out the Poyson as the Sore was healing lost all his Teeth but without further danger or inconvenience An ADDITION of some RARITIES overslipt THe Star Fish having fine points like a Star the whole Fish no bigger then the Palm of a Mans hand of a tough substance like leather and about an Inch in thickness whitish underneath and of the Colour of a Cucumber above and somewhat ruff When it is warm in ones hand you may perceive a stiff motion turning down one point

Beasts 3. Fishes 4. Serpents and Insects 5. Plants of these 1. such Plants as are common with us 2. of such Plants as are proper to the Country 3. of such Plants as are proper to the Country and have no name known to us 4. of such Plants as have sprung up since the English Planted and kept Cattle there 5. of such Garden Herbs amongst us as do thrive there and of such as do not 6. Of Stones Minerals Metals and Earths First Of Birds The Humming Bird. THe Humming Bird the least of all Birds little bigger than a Dor of variable glittering Colours they feed upon Honey which they suck out of Blossoms and Flowers with their long Needle-like Bills they sleep all Winter and are not to be seen till the Spring at which time they breed in little Nests made up like a bottom of soft Silk-like matter their Eggs no bigger than a white Pease they hatch three or four at a time and are proper to this Country The Troculus The Troculus a small Bird black and white no bigger than a Swallow the points of whose Feathers are sharp which they stick into the sides of the Chymney to rest themselves their Legs being exceeding short where they breed in Nests made like a Swallows Nest but of a glewy substance and which is not fastened to the Chymney as a Swallows Nest but hangs down the Chymney by a clew-like string a yard long They commonly have four or five young ones and when they go away which is much about the time that Swallows use to depart they never fail to throw down one of their young Birds into the room by way of Gratitude I have more than once observed that against the ruin of the Family these Birds will suddenly forsake the house and come no more The Pilhannaw The Pilhannaw or Mechquan much like the description of the Indian Ruck a monstrous great Bird a kind of Hawk some say an Eagle four times as big as a Goshawk white Mail'd having two or three purple Feathers in her head as long as Geeses Feathers they make Pens of the Quills of these Feathers are purple as big as Swans Quills and transparent her Head is as big as a Child 's of a year old a very Princely Bird when she soars abroad all sort of feathered Creatures hide themselves yet she never preys upon any of them but upon Fawns and Iaccals She Ayries in the Woods upon the high Hills of Ossapy and is very rarely or seldome seen The Turkie The Turkie who is blacker than ours I have heard several credible persons affirm they have seen Turkie Cocks that have weighed forty yea sixty pound but out of my personal experimental knowledge I can assure you that I have eaten my share of a Turkie Cock that when he was pull'd and garbidg'd weighed thirty pound and I have also seen threescore broods of young Turkies on the side of a Marsh sunning of themselves in a morning betimes but this was thirty years since the English and the Indian having now destroyed the breed so that 't is very rare to meet with a wild Turkie in the Woods but some of the English bring up great store of the wild kind which remain about their Houses as tame as ours in England The Goose. The Goose of which there are three kinds the Gray Goose the White Goose and the Brant The Goose will live a long time I once found in a White Goose three Hearts she was a very old one and so tuff that we gladly gave her over although exceeding well roasted The Bloody-Flux Cured A Friend of mine of good Quality living sometime in Virginia was sore troubled for a long time with the Bloody-Flux having tryed several Remedies by the advice of his Friends without any good effect at last was induced with a longing desire to drink the Fat Dripping of a Goose newly taken from the Fire which absolutely cured him who was in despair of ever recovering his health again The Gripe and Vulture The Gripe which is of two kinds the one with a white Head the other with a black Head this we take for the Vulture They are both cowardly Kites preying upon Fish cast up on the shore In the year 1668. there was a great mortallity of Eels in Casco Bay thither resorted at the same time an infinite number of Gripes insomuch that being shot by the Inhabitants they fed their Hogs with them for some weeks at other times you shall seldome see above two or three in a dozen miles travelling The Quill Feathers in their Wings make excellent Text Pens and the Feathers of their Tail are highly esteemed by the Indians for their Arrows they will not sing in flying a Gripes Tail is worth a Beavers Skin up in the Country A Remedy for the Coldness and pain of the Stomach The Skin of a Gripe drest with the doun on is good to wear upon the Stomach for the Pain and Coldness of it The Osprey The Osprey which in this Country is white mail'd A Remedy for the Tooth-ach Their Beaks excell for the Tooth-ach picking the Gums therewith till they bleed The Wobble The Wobble an ill shaped Fowl having no long Feathers in their Pinions which is the reason they cannot fly not much unlike the Pengwin they are in the Spring very fat or rather oyly but pull'd and garbidg'd and laid to the Fire to roast they yield not one drop For Aches Our way for they are very soveraign for Aches is to make Mummy of them that is to salt them well and dry them in an earthen pot well glazed in an Oven or else which is the better way to bury them under ground for a day or two then quarter them and stew them in a Tin Stew●…an with a very little water The Looue The Looue is a Water Fowl alike in shape to the Wobble and as virtual for Aches which we order after the same manner The Owl The Owl Avis devia which are of three kinds the great Gray Owl with Ears the little Gray Owl and the White Owl which is no bigger than a Thrush The Turkie Buzzard The Turkie Buzzard a kind of Kite but as big as a Turkie brown of colour and very good meat What Birds are not to be found in New-England Now by what the Country hath not you may ghess at what it hath it hath no Nightingals nor Larks nor Bulfinches nor Sparrows nor Blackbirds nor Magpies nor Iackdawes nor Popinjays nor Rooks nor Pheasants nor Woodcocks nor Quails nor Robins nor Cuckoes c. Secondly Of Beasts The Bear which are generally black THe Bear they live four months in Caves that is all Winter in the Spring they bring forth their young ones they seldome have above three Cubbs in a litter are very fat in the Fall of the Leaf with feeding upon Acorns at which time they are excellent Venison their Brains are venomous they feed much upon water Plantane in the Spring and Summer and