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Cocks that have weighed forty, yea ilxty pound; but out 

 of my perfonal experimental knowledge I can affure )'ou, 

 that I have eaten my fhare of a Turkie Cock, that when he 

 was pull'd and garbidg'd, weighed thirty [9] pound; and 

 I have alfo feen threefcore broods of young Tnrkies on 

 the fide of a marfh, sunning of themfelves in a morning 

 betimes, but this was thirty years fince, the EngliJJi and 

 the Indians having now deftroyed the breed, fo that 'tis 

 very rare to meet with a wild Turkie in the Woods ; But 

 fome of the EngliJJi bring up great ftore of the wild kind, 

 which remain about their Houfes as tame as ours in 

 England. 



The Goofe} 



The Goofe, of which there are three kinds; the Gray 

 Goofe, the White Goofe, and the Brant: The Goofe will 



evening, and watched where they perch, — if one come about ten or eleven of the 

 clock, — he may shoot as often as he will : they will sit, unless they be slenderly 

 wounded. These turkies remain all the year long. The price of a good turkey- 

 cock is four shillings ; and he is well worth it, for he may be in weight forty 

 pounds; a hen, two shillings." — Wood, TV Eng. Prospefl, chap. viii. See also 

 Josselyn's Voyages, p. 99. 



1 "The geese of the country be of three sorts. First, a brant goose; which is 

 a goose almost like the wild goose in England. The price of one of these is six- 

 pence. The second kind is a white goose, almost as big as an English tame 

 goose. These come in great flocks about Michaelmas : sometimes there will be 

 two or three thousand in a flock. Those continue six weeks, and so fly to the 

 southward; returning in March, and staying six weeks more, returning to 

 the northward. The price of one of these is eightpence. The third kind of 

 geese is a great grey goose, with a black neck, and a black and white head ; 

 strong of flight : and these be a great deal bigger than the ordinary geese of 

 England; some very fat, and, in the spring, full of feathers, that the shot can 

 scarce pierce them. Most of these geese remain with us from Michaelmas to 

 April. They feed in the sea upon grass in the bays at low water, and gravel, and 



