284 Ancient Catalogue of Objects of Natural History. 



15. A piece of the shell of the Poquahauges, a rare shell-fish, and 

 a dainty food with the Indians. The flesh eats like veal ; the English 

 make pyes thereof; and of the shell the Indians make money. This 

 piece is worth two pence. 



16, 17, 18, 19, 20. The same, of different values. They are call- 

 ed Wampampeege. 



21. Young Poquahauges, Pectunculus fasciatus. 



22. The wreaths of the Buccinum, of which the Indians make their 

 money or white Wampampeege, 



28. Clams, white. Their broth is most excellent in all intermitting 

 fevers, consumptions, &c. These clams feed only on sand. 



29. A very curious sort of gold-coloured pearl shells on the sea-coast 

 near the shore. Those with marks are such as have born pearls ; which 

 powdered make the best testaceous powder in the world. 



30. Unripe pearls, which in time would have become (31). 



31. Bright pearls, which are produced in the same shells (30), 



32. Some of the larger sea pearl shells, which are often found in 

 deeper waters three times as large, and bear larger pearls. 



N. B. Almost all the lakes, ponds, and brooks, contain a large fresh- 

 water clam, which also bears pearls. The Indians say they have no 

 pearls in them at certain seasons : but at the season when they grow 

 milky, the pearls are digested in them, which causes their milkyness. 



33. Shells of the razor-fish, (Solares,) which calcined the Indians 

 mix with bear's grease, and therewith cure the piles. They drink the 

 water, in which they are boiled together with the powder of the shells. 



Insects. 



34. Moths. A fine large butterfly with velvet wings, furbelow'd, 

 and eyes on them like the rounds on peacock's feathers. 



Vegetables. 



36. Some red cedar wood rotten, from the middle of a post, which 

 was sound on the outside ; which shows that the common opinion that 

 cedar never rots is false. 



38. Touch-wood ; being the bark of the red oak. The Indians kin- 

 dle fire with it, by striking two flints together. 



40. A sort of Sena from Elizabetha Island, New England. It dies 

 an excellent black, and grows in great plenty. Prinos glaber. 



41. Leaves of a plumb, which grows in swampy ground. It is an 

 evergreen, that dyes an exceeding fine shining black :^ and it surpasses 

 Sena, 



42. An evergreen, with which the Indians cure the dropsy and stran- 

 gury, boiling the leaves and small branches in spring water, when they 

 are sick, and drink it in fevers. It grows plentifully in the country, 

 and bears a spicy red berry, which the turtle-doves and partridges eat. 



