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powder, and then taken : fome people af- 

 fured me that in cafes where nothing would 

 help, this remedy had given a certain and 

 fpeedy relief. The people in this place 

 likewife make ufe of this bark (as is ufually 

 done in the Engliflo colonies) to dye wool 

 a brown colour, which looks like that 

 of bohea tea, and does not fade by being 

 expofed to the fun. Among the nume- 

 rous fiiells which are found on the fea 

 fhore, there are fome which by the EngliJJj 

 here are called Clams, and which bear fome 

 refemblance to the human ear. They have 

 a confiderable thicknefs, and are chiefly 

 white, excepting the pointed end, which 

 both without and within has a blue colour, 

 between purple and violet. They are met 

 with in van: numbers on the fea more of New 

 York, Long JJIand, and other places. The 

 ihells contain a large animal, which is eat- 

 en both by the Indians and Europeans fettled 

 here. 



A considerable commerce is carried 

 on in this article, with fuch Indians as live 

 further up the country. When thefe peo- 

 ple inhabited the coaft, they were able to 

 catch their own clams, which at that time 

 made a great part of their food ; but at 

 prefent this is the bufinefs of the Dutch and 

 Englifi, who live in Long Jjland and other 



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