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Bill Berries, two kinds, Black and Sky Coloured, which 

 is more frequent. 1 



[60] To cool the heat of Beavers, and quench Thirjl. 



Thev are very good to allay the burning heat of Feavers, 

 and hot Agues, either in Syrup or Conferve. 



A moji excellent Summer Dijli. 



They ufually eat of them put into a Bafon, with Milk, 

 and fweetned a little more with Sugar and Spice, or for 

 cold Stomachs, in Sack. The Indians dry them in the 

 Sun, and fell them to the Engli/Ji by the BuJIiell, who 

 make ufe of them inftead of Currence, putting of them 

 into Puddens, both boyled and baked, and into Water 

 Gruel. 



Knot Berry, or Clowde Berry, feldom ripe. 2 



1 " Attiiaash (whortleberries), of which there are divers sorts; sweet, like 

 currants; some opening, some of a binding nature. Sautaash are these currants 

 dried by the natives, and so preserved all the year; which they beat to powder, 

 and mingle it with their parched meal, and make a delicate dish which they call 

 sautautJiig, which is as sweet to them as plum or spice cake to the English." — 

 R. Williams, Key, dbc, I. c, p. 221. The fruitful and wholesome American 

 whortleberries, or bilberries, were, it is likely, a very pleasant discovery to our 

 forefathers. It was, no doubt, those species that we call blueberries which they 

 made most of, and particularly the low blueberry (Vaccinium Pcnnsylvanicum, 

 Lam.) and the swamp-blueberry (V. corymbosum, L.). From these the common 

 black whortleberry ( Gaylussacia resinosa, Torr. and Gray) differs no less in quali- 

 ty than in struAure. Sa'te~ (compare sautaash, above), in Rasles Di£t. of the 

 Abnaki Language, /. c, p. 450, is rendered "frais, sans etre sees ; lorsq'ils s't sees, 

 sikisa^tar." 



- The cloud-berry — Rubus cham&morus, L. (Gerard, p. 1420) — is found in 

 some parts of the subalpine region of the White Mountains; and Mr. Oakes 

 detected it at Lubec, on the coast of Maine. It is common to both continents ; 



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