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Chap. XVI. AMERICA* 



Cochinele is product by a Plant that grows in this Countrey, but it is not made 

 without much care and curiofity, and the Engllfh are not yet well experienced in 

 the Husbanding thereof, befides that the Growth of the Plant is much obftru&ed 

 by Eafterly Winds. 



There is here greater ftorc of Cartel than in any of the reft of the Engltjh Plan-Bra*, 

 rations in America, as Horfes, which by reafon of the great number of them, are 

 bought very cheap. 



Cow's, of a large fize, and of which vaft numbers are ycarlykiU'd. 



Afinegos and Mules, both wild and tame, being a very ferviceable fort of Cattcl 

 in thofe Countreys. 



Sheep, large and tall, and whofe Flefii is counted exceeding good, but the Fleece 

 worth little. % m 



Goats in great abundance, teing a fort of Cattel very peculiar to that Countrey. 



But of all other Cattel, Hofjare here in the greateft plenty, both wild in the 

 Mountains, and tame in the Plantations,, and they are more in requeft for Food 

 than any of the reft, their Flefh being counted both of a better rellifh, and more ea- 

 fily digeftible than the Hogs»flefli of our Parts. 



The Fifii that is very plentifully caught in thefe Coafts is of infinite variety, and ^ 

 quite of another kind from what we have in this part of the World, the principal 

 whereof is the Tortoife, which is taken in great abundance both on thefe Coafts, 

 and in the Iflands Qamavas* 



The tame Fowl in this Place, are chiefly Hens, Turkies, and Ducks, but ofBWt. 

 wild Fowl infinite ftore, as ofGuinee Hens, Flamingo's, Teal, Ducks, Wigeon, Gecfe 

 Pigeons, Snipes, Plovers, Parrots, Turtles, Parachites, Machaw's, with' divers 

 others. • 



Choice and excellent forts of Fruits are herein great abundance, as Cocao-Nuts, Fr U «-Tre« 

 Marines, Maumees, Supatas, SuppatWas, Mocatas,. £ajkuds, Prickle- Apples, Pflcklei vL£~ 

 Pears, Sower«Sops, Cuftud-Apjlis, and many othfers. 



For Timber-Trees, Platanes and Pines. 



And for Garden-Herbs, Radifli, Lcttice, Parfley, Cucumbefs, Melons, &%. 



The antient Inhabitants us'd two forts of Bread, the one made of ftamp'd 

 Roots, and the other of Corn, which is Reap d thrice every year, and grows with 

 fuch fuccefs, that one Pintfow'n yields two hundred. 



They had a ftrange way to make their Ca^tri Cakes of the Root Juca, which 

 keep good a year : They firft prefs'd out the Juice with great Weights, which if 

 drunk raw, occafions fudden Death . but boyl'd, ispallatable and good. 



Potato's are here in great abundance, and grow like Artichokes in a moift Soil, 

 and fhoot forth Leaves of a dark-green Colour, likeSpinagc ; they fpread upon 

 the Earth by Stalks, and bear a Flower like a Bell, at the end of which grows the 

 Seed: the Roots are generally White, but fometimes Red, Marbie.colour'd, YeU 

 low, and Violet . they arc not oncly pleafing to the Pallat, but accounted very 

 wholfom when ftew'd in a clofe cover'd Pot, with a little Water. 



But much daintier are the Ananas, which grow on a Stalk of a Foot long, fur. 

 rounded with fixteen large (harp Leaves, between which grows a Fruit like a Pine. 

 Apple, but much bigger, with an uneven Rind, of a pale Green, and inclining to a 

 Carnation on a yellow Ground ; on the top fhoots out a red Bunch of Leaves and 

 Flowers g the innermoft Pulp melts on the Tongue, and is of fo delicious a tafte, 

 that it exceeds all other Dainties ; the Seed produces Fruit once. 



Of this Fruit there are feveral forts, the chief whereof is accounted a fpecial Re- 

 medy againft a bad Stomach, Gravel, Poyfon,and Melancholy. 



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