154 $kfo=(£nglanlrs Parities. 



Sables, their Teeth are worth eight Groats the Pound ; the 

 belt Ivory being Sold but for half the Money. 1 



For Poyfon. 

 It is very good againft Poyfon. 



For the Cramp. 

 As alfo for the Cramp, made into Rings. 



For the Piles. 



And a fecret for the Piles, if a wife Man have the order- 

 ing of it. 



The Manaty, a Fifh as big as a Wine pipe, moft excel- 

 lent Meat; bred in the Rivers of Hifpaniola in the Wejl 

 Indies', it hath Teats, and nourifheth its young ones with 

 Milk; it is of a green Colour, and tafteth like Veal. 



[98] For the Stone Collick. 



There is a Stone taken out of the Head that is rare for 

 the Stone and Collecl. 



1 "Numerous about the Isle of Sables; i.e., the Sandy Isle." — Voyages, p. 

 106. "Mr. Graves " (year 1635) " in the 'James,' and Mr. Hodges in the ' Re- 

 becka,' set sail for the Isle of Sable for sea-horse, which are there in great num- 

 ber," &c. — Winthrof's N. E., by Savage, vol. i. p. 162. And I cite one other 

 mention of this pursuit: "Eastward is the Isle of Sables; whither one John 

 Webb, alias Evered (an active man), with his company, are gone, with commis- 

 sion from the Bay to get sea-horse teeth and oyle." — Leckford's Nevjes from 

 Nevj England (1642), Mass. Hist. Coll., vol. iii. 3d series, p. 100. The Magda- 

 len Islands, in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, are the most southern habitat of the 

 animal spoken of by Godman. — Amer. Nat. Hist., vol. i. p. 249. 



