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Scarborough, Maine. After staying a short time at Bos- 

 ton, he went to his brother's home in Maine, where he 

 remained until October of the following year. In 1663, 

 he again visited the country and stayed eight years. 

 The results of his travels, observations, etc., are recorded 

 in two volumes, one entitled "New England's Rarities 

 discovered in birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, and plants 

 of that Country, " and published at London in 1672 ; the 

 other, " An Account of two voyages to New England." 

 The former book was issued, with full and valuable anno- 

 tations, l)y Prof. Edward Tuckerman in 1865, and from 

 this we quote largely. He says, " Josselyn was, it ap- 

 pears, a man of polite reading." His curiosity in picking 

 up " excellent medicines, " points to an acquaintance with 

 physic, of his practising which there occur several in- 

 stances. Nor is he by any means uninterested in pre- 

 scriptions for the kitchen as, for instance, when he gives 

 an elal)orate recipe for cooking eels and also one for a 

 compound liquor " that exceeds passada, the nectar of" 

 the country, " which is made, he tells us, of "Syder, 

 Maligo Raisons, Milk, and Syrup of Clove Gilliflowers. " 

 But his curiosity in Natural History and especially Bot- 

 any is his chief merit and this now gives almost all the 

 value that is left to his l)0()ks. William Wood, the 

 author of '' New England's Prospects, " was a better 

 observer generally than Josselyn, but the latter makes 

 up for his shortcomings by the particularity of his bo- 

 tanical information. But we will return to the "Rarities," 

 and see what record Mr. Josselyn has lett of the plants 

 of the country. He has divided them into five groups, 

 viz : 



1. Such Plants as are common with us in England. 



2. Such Plants as are Proper to the country. 



