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live a long time; I once found in a White Goofe three 

 Hearts, fhe was a very old one, and fo tuft", that we gladly 

 gave her over although exceeding well roafted. 



The Bloody-Flux Cured. 



A Friend of mine of good Quality living fometime in 

 Virginia was fore troubled for a long time with the 

 Bloody-Flux, having tryed feveral Remedies by the advice 

 of his Friends without any good effect, at laft was in- 

 duced with a longing defire to drink the Fat Dripping 

 [10] of a Goofe newly taken from the Fire, which abfo- 

 lutely cured him, who was in defpair of ever recovering 

 his health again. 



The Gripe and Vulture. 



The Gripe, which is of two kinds, the one with a White 

 Head, the other with a black Head, this we take for the 

 Vtilture. They are both cowardly Kites, 1 preying upon 



in the woods of acorns ; having, as other fowl have, their pass and repass to the 

 northward and southward. The accurate marksmen kill of these both flying and 

 sitting. The price of a grey goose is eighteen-pence." — Wood, N. E. ProsfiecJ, 

 1. c. The white goose here mentioned is probably the snow-goose; upon which 

 compare Nuttall. Mass. Ornith., Water-Birds, p. 344. Josselyn (Voyages, p. 100) 

 says the brant and the gray goose " are best meat; the white are lean and tough, 

 and live a long time ; whereupon the proverb, ' Older than a white goose : ' " 

 which is not supported by Wood or later writers. The snow-goose has become 

 much less frequent with us since the settlement of the country. The great grey 

 goose of Wood is our well-known Canada goose. 



1 This was the best that our author could say of the eagles of New England. 

 Wood assists us once more here: "The eagles of the country be of two sorts, — 

 one like the eagles that be in England; the other is something bigger, with a 

 great white head and white tail. These be commonly called gripes." — Ne-w-Eng. 



