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it is alfo very rapid. They make Ibme years 40, 50 or 100 ton 
of oil of a little fifh, taken in this river, and called in Latin 
^ungitius, Stickleback, ^PrickUfig or Sancfiead, from the imall 
prickles on its back 3 they are not above an inch and a haU long, 
and about half as broad; about a bulhel arc taken at a draught, 
and about 8 chalder will make a hoglhead. The country people 
gather up the dung of oxen and cows, and temper it v.'ith water, 
and fpread it on the ground about five inches thick, this they cut 
out into oblong pieces of about a foot, and call them [Ditbesy 
which they ufe for fuel; they alfo gather up hog's dung, and 
lleep it in water, and having well ftirred it, they ftrain it, and lb 
uie it to wafti cloaths; which, when bleached in the fummer, 
will become white and fweet. Befides the fowl mentioned by 
Mr. Cambden, of mudfuckers (which are efteemed the bell) they 
have Ruff and Reve, the former being the cock, the latter the 
hen, in Latin Aves pugnaces, becaufe they are continually fight- 
ing; rarely two in a hundred are of a colour, they are ulually 
mewed. As to fiHi, they have turbot in great plenty, called 
Srets, and taken in nets trailed on the ground by two horles ; 
they have large foals, taken in troul-nets, trailed by fmacks under 
fail as alfo great plenty of fkate, which are taken with hooks 
lying near tlie Ihores, as are in like manner cod and thornback. 
As to inle^ls, gnats, here called midges, are in fome places very 
troublefome, fome ufe filk-nets to fecure themfelves from being 
bitten ; frogs are very numerous here, called Holland ^ Waites. 
As to vegetables, great quantities of hemp are fown in le-.^eral 
places, of which ropes are made, both for fea and land ; the fe- 
male is called femble, as alio flax ; the feed is broken, and oil 
made thereof, as of cole-leed; the lalt-marlhes yield a great deal 
o^ Kali geniculattm, which, when pickled, is their lamphire; 
Car urn grows plentifully in the paftures, the feed they call laxi- 
frage, which they gather and fend to London. Theie parts 
afford but little variety of metals, gums or ftones ; amber is lome- 
times picked up on the fand m pretty large pieces; the Afiroites^^ 
found at Sehoir caftle, will not only move in vinegar, but alio 
dulcify it, and this Lapis judaicus will alio do. Here coals are 
charred, and then called Coak, with which they dry malt, giving 
little colour or tafte to the drink made therewith; on the lands 
the poor people fweep together a fmall black fubflance, of which 
they make fires, by leaving open a hole in their chimnies for the 
air to blow it; they have one on each fide to open and fnut as 
the wind fits. Agues, called Holland 'Baylies, are here very 
rife, few ftrangers efcaping them. There are in fcveral places a 
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