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The Hiftory of 



Book i. 



ned their price beyond thofe commonly feen in Holland. 



2. Many rich Hides of Harts, Elks, Bears, as alfo the fkins 

 of Foxes , Hares , and Conies , whereof moll: were perfect- 

 ly white. 



3. A great number of precious Furs of divers kinds of four- 

 footed Beafts particular to that Country, and not known yet 

 by any name among us. 



4. Several Packs of Whale-bone of extraordinary length. 



5. Some compleat fuitsof Cloths of the Inhabitants of the 

 Country, whereof fome were of the (kins of Beafts, others of 

 thofe of Birds, of the faftiion before reprefented. 



6. Many of their Shirts made of Fifties Bladders very neatly 

 few'd* as alfo Caps, Gloves, and Bufkins, Quivers, Arrows, 

 Bows, and other Arms ufed by them 5 as alfo fome of their 

 Tents, Bags , Bafkets^ and other little pieces of Houf- 

 hold-ftufF. 



7. A great number of thofe fmall VelTels made to carry only 

 one man : A great Boat or Shallop forty five foot in length, 

 which might conveniently carry fifty perfbns. 



8. But the moft rare and precious Commodity was a very 

 considerable quantity of the Teeth or Horns of the fifties called 

 Sea-Unicorns, which are thought to be the largeft, the faireft 

 and the moft exactly proportion'd of any that have yet 

 been feen. 



Some of them were lent to Paris , and other parts of Europe^ 

 where they were well receiv'd : Nor is it unlikely but that ehey 

 will be much more highly efteemed, when the admirable ver- 

 mes they have in Phyfick are known : For though their beau- 

 ty and rarity may procure them the beft places in the Clofets 

 of the Curious 5 yet will they be more kindly received there, 

 when fome others have found true what many famous Phyfi- 

 ciansand Apothecaries of Denmark, zvuL Gerviany, who have 

 made trial thereof upon feveral occafions, unanimoufly affirm 

 of them, to wit, that they expell poyfon , and have all the 

 properties commonly attributed to the Land-Unicorns 

 Horn. 



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