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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 Englip 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 fhells which are found on the fea 

 fhore, there are fome which by the Englifl? 

 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 vaft numbers on the fea fliore oi New 

 Tork, Long IJland, and other places. The 

 £hells contain a large animal, which is eat- 

 en both by the Indians and Europeans fettled 

 here. 



A CONSIDERABLE commcrcc 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 

 Englijh, who live in Long IJland and other 

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