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let it lie for pasture for all men's cattle to graze upon, and clear 

 more ground out of the woods to plant in. 



Some farmers have orchards of 1200 trees and upwards bear- 

 ing all sorts of English apples — as Pearmains, Pippins, Eusse- 

 tins, Costards, Mangolds, King-apples, Magitens, Eatchelours and 

 many others, of which they make great store of cyder. 



Here are likewise great peach orchards which bear such an 

 infinite quantity of peaches that at some j)lantations they beat 

 down to the hogs forty bushels in a year. Here are also great 

 store of quinces, larger and fairer than those of England, of the 

 juice of which they make also quince drink. Here ai-e likewise 

 Apricocks, and some sort of English plums but these do not 

 ripen as kindly as they do in England. There are some sort of 

 pears but at very few plantations. I have seen the Berganny^ 

 wardens and two or three other sorts as fair, large and pleasant 

 as in England. Here grow as good figs as in Spain, but there 

 are few planted as yet. I had almost forgot to mention their 

 Mulberry trees whereof they have good store about their houses. 

 These were planted to feel silkworms, but that design failing 

 they are now of little use. The meanest planter hath store of 

 cherries. Abundance of grape vines in the woods — a kind of 

 closet grapes — of which some few planters make wine — I have 

 tasted it, it somewhat smaller than French claret. Their gardens 

 have all sorts of English pot-herbs and sallads; they have cabba- 

 ges, coleworts, cally-flowers, jiarsnips, carrots, potatoes nud yams. 



They have plenty of horses and as good as we have in England. 

 Sheep few — wolves being all over the country. 



The Indians live uj^on Indian corn, venison, w^ild turkies, 

 oysters and all kinds of wild beasts of the woods. 



Their money is of two sorts, one whereof is made of a white 

 kind of shell, which Ijeing divided into two small parts they put 

 them on a string after the manner of beads — this they call 

 Peacke: the other is of a blue shell ordered in the same manner, 

 which they call Rounda, this last is the meaner sort — about half 

 a yard whereof is of equal value with our nine pence. 



All the Indians carry a powder about them to cure the bites 

 of snakes, and in almost every town this powder hath a different 

 composition I and every one an efiectual cure — neither is it known 

 to us that any Indian suffered much harm from these bites, but 

 in a day's time he Avould be as well as if he had never been bit- 

 ten — whereupon some of the English for want of speedy reme- 

 dies have lost their lives. 



