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The AUf- 



Chap. II. 



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wide in the Head, their flefli is as good as Beef, their Hides good for Clothing. 

 .f chefe were kept tame and accuftom'd to the Yoke, they would be a great Com! 

 moduy : Fitft becaufc they are fo fruitful, bringing forth three at a time be "a 



Foale'r ThT ' ^fl' ^ ** W ^ h *"* ^4 



Fodder 1 here are not many of thefe in the Majfachufets Bay, but forty Miles to the 



North-Eaft there are great ftore of them. • 



The H« « tu .deep Furr'd Beaft, not much unlike a Badger, having a Tail „.„ 



Tree's in 'aT ^ " ' ^ = ^^ ^^ in the ^ ««" ««P » "olTow " 



Trees m a Moon-fh,ne night they go to feed on Clams at a low Tide by the 



Sea fide, where the Englifh hunt them with their Dogs. ' Y 



The Mufauajh is much like a Beaver for fhape, but nothing near fo bin . the 

 Male hath two Stones which fmell as fweet as Musk, and being kill'd in Winter 

 never lofe the.r fwe et fmell : Thefe Skins are no bigger than a Coney.skTn ya 

 are fold for five Shulings apiece : being fent for Tokens into England J one go'od 

 Skin will perfume a whole houfe full of Clothes, if it be right and good. 

 The Birds both common and peculiar are thus recited. 



The Trincely Etgle, and the (oaring HaTi>k, 

 Whom in their unknown ways there's none can chawk : 

 The Humbird for fame Queens rich Qage more fit) 

 Than in the Vacant Wtldernefs to fit. 

 The fwift-feingd Swallow /weeping to and fro, 

 Asfwift as ArtoTvfrom Tartarian <Bowe. 

 When as Aurora's Infant day new if rings, 

 Time th" morning mounting Lark her facet lays ftngs. 

 The harmonious Thrufi?,fwift Pigeon, Turtledove, 

 Who to her Mate doth ever confiant prove : 

 TheTmhf-fheafant, Heath-cock^ 'artridge rare, 

 The Harriot- tearing CroTf, and hurtful Stare, 

 The long-h'd %a\>en, th'ominous Screecb-0ivl } 

 Mo tells, as old Wives fay, difaflers foul. 



Birds.' 



The drowfie Madge that leases her dayloYd Keft, 

 Jnd loves to rove, when Day-birds be at reft : ' 

 Tb'EeLmurthering Hearn, and greedy Cormorant, 

 That near the Creeks in morijh Marfres haunt. 

 Vie bellowing (Bittern, with the long-leg d Crane, 

 Pre/aging Winters hard, and dearth of Grain. 

 The Silver Swan that tunes her mournful breath. 

 To fmg the Dirge of her approaching death. 

 The tattering OldwiVes, and the cackling Geefe, 

 The fearful Gull that fhuns the murthering <Peece. 

 The ftrong.wingd Mallard, with the nimble Teal, 

 Jnd ULjhape't Loon^who his harjl? Notes dothfcjueal. 

 There Widgins, Sheldrakes and Humilitees, 

 Snites,Voppers,Sea-Larks,in whole million flees. 



Of riefe the Humbird, Loon, and Humility arc not to be pafs'd by without parti. 

 cular oofervation, r 



Th( Humbird is one of the wonders of the Countrey, being no bigger than a *?•** 

 Home, yet hath all the Dimenfions of a Bird, as Bill, and Wings with Quills, Spi. 

 der.ltfe Legs, imall Claws : for Colour, flic is as glorious as the Rain.bow . as (he 

 flies, flic makes a little humming noife like a Humble-bee, wherefore fhe is call'd 

 the humbird. 



The Loon is an ill.fiiap'd thing like a Cormorant, but that he can neither go nor T 

 flie.he maketh a noife fometimes like Sowgelders Horn. The Humilities or Sim- J 

 fitches (as we may rather call them) are of two forts, the biggeft being as large as a ''' ' 

 gteii Plover . the other as big as Birds we call %nots in England. Such is the fim- 

 pluty of the fmailer forts of thefe Birds , that one may drive them on a heap like 

 lonany Sheep, and ieeing a fit time (hoot them . the living feeing the dead, fettle 

 thmfelves on the fame place again, amongft which the Fowler difcharges again : 

 Tiefe Birds are to.be had upon Sandy Brakes, at the la.tt.er end of Summer before 

 tie Geefe come in. v _ 



No left Poeticalaf ill of Fare is brought of the Fifh on the Sea-Coafts, and in the 

 livers of New England in thefe fubfequent Verfes. 



R I The 



ThtlD... 



Tie Humi. 

 or Sim- 

 Itchy. 



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