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tasted and bitter, but has much the same Virtues, viz. cooling 

 and astringent ; the Juice, with Honey, Allum, and red Wine, 

 fastens loose Teeth. 



The Dew-Berry s grow on small Brambles or Stalks about 

 two or three Feet long exactly like the Blach-herry. This 

 Fruit is sweet and good to eat, and like our Blach-herry in 

 shape, but is as red as a Ras-herry when ripe, and has much 

 the same Virtues with the former. 



I will in this place give an account of the Straw-herry 

 though it be not a Shrub. The Straw-herrys in this Province 

 are not only large, sweet, and good, but in as great plenty as 

 in any part of the World, growing almost every where, and 

 are the first Fruit the Hogs feed upon in the Spring. The 

 Planters in their Canoes go to the Islands (which are to be 

 met with in several parts of the Rivers) and pull what quan- 

 tities they please, bringing generally home their Canoes full 

 of this pleasant Fruit, from those parts where the Hogs can't 

 come to feed. They quench thirst, help inflammations of 

 the Stomach, comfort the Heart, and revive the Spirits, help 

 diseases of the Spleen, and Reins, provoke Urine, are good 

 against the Stone and Gravel, and are usefull in Fevers, by 

 cooling and comforting the inward parts. 



The Honey-Suckles or Wood-hind (whereof there are four 

 Sorts I have already given an account of) are very plenty in 

 this Province, and are much the same as those with us, but 

 do not grow so large. The Leaves and Flowers are pectoral 

 and Diuretick, and cure Asthmas and Coughs, outwardly 

 they are Cosmetick, and take away Scabs and Pimples in the 

 Face, the juice is vulnerary, eases wounds in the Head, 

 strengthens the ISTerves, and makes an excellent gargle for 

 sore and dry mouths. 



The Yellow- Jessamine is to be met with here in several 

 parts of the Woods, and not only affords in the Summer-time, 



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