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msesit It alfd with their meat .-To heal bruifedLtmbs and Cuts 
with thebarkof Birch, boyled very tender, and ftamped be- 
iwcQn twoS tones to be a plaifter, and the decodion thereof 
powred into the wound : Jo take ofFa Pin or webjor any kind 
of film growing over the eye with the calcin'd and pulverized 
{bell of a Si&^^^/!'-j^:>whichis very plentiful inNf2P-F«g/fl«4a de-- 
licate fifh^ cover'd with a thin fliell and of the colour of a 
Mufle. 
Among the Jmrnalf^ihctQ are fome that deferve to be taken 
notice of above the reft 5 as i. A Dear, call'd the Moofe-dear, 
fome of which are defcribed to be twelve foot high , with ex- 
ceeding fair Horns with broad palms • fome of them two f a. 
thorns from the tip of one Horn to the other : They have corns 
monly three -F^^T'fa/ at a time j which are^ to our Obfervers 
Palate, an incomparable difh. 2. A monflrous great Bird^eall'd 
Tilhannarv or Mechquan^ a kind of Hawk, four times as big as 
a GoCHawkj with a head as big as a Childs of a year old^ aVe* 
ry Princely Bird ^ at whofe foaringabroadj all forts of fea- 
ther'd creatures hide themfelvesj though flie never preys upon 
any of them , but doth upon Fawns and Jaccals.i.Tht Scarlet* 
Mujlle, having a purplesvein^which being prick't with a needle 
yeilds a perfedl Purple or Scarlet Juyce that will not be wafec 
©utof theLinnen died there withj found TitPafchatamy^z Plan- 
tation about 50 Leagues by Sea Eaft- ward from Bofien ^ in a 
fmall Cot/^jCaird Bakers Cove.4. A little Beaft calPd a Muskquap^ 
feeding upon the baftard Calamus Arjmatitus^hdL\hCoA% fcntiog 
that as Iweet and flrong as Musk, ^bd lafting thtjs long time, 
wrapt up in Cotton-wool* 
Among Plants there is one , tak^n by fome to be a kind of 
Gotden-^d, by others for Sara^ns tonfound^hy(\\Qh\xlhor{ot 
a kind ot Sun flower, or Weft lndianvl/m^a/i; of which the 
ftalk beneath and above the knob is cover'd with a multitude 
of fmaltBugs, about the bicknefs of a great Flea, which or- 
der'd as they fliould be before they come to have wings , the 
Obferver prefumeswill make good fo^^/Wf/ j they yeilding 
a perf eft and durable Scarlet. colour. 
The New England JP^^/^? are faid by our Author not onfy 
to be the beft io the world ^ but free from being worm- eaten. 
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