(no) 
hard in (hort time. The Indians kid mucfir 
wpon this fifh, fome they roft, and fomc 
they dry as they do Lampres Ojjlers 
which are delicate breakfaft meat diddered, 
the Oyfiers arc long (heUM, Jhat^e had of 
them nine inches long fiom the point to \M 
toe, containing an Oyfier like thofe the, 
Latines called "IridacuaH that were to bd 
cut into three pieces before they could get 
them into their mouths, veny fat and fweet* 
The Myfcle is of two forts, Stz-mufcles 
Jn which they find Pearl and iwti-mufcks* 
ScsL-mufcles dryed and pulveriied and laid 
lapon the fores of the Piles and hemorrhoids 
with byi will petfe^ly cure thtm. 
The Whore is a (hell-fifii, the (hells are 
called whotcs-cggs, being fine round white 
fliells, in (hape like a Mexico pompion, but no 
bigger than a good large Hens- egg , they 
arc wrought down the fides with little 
knobs ihd hofcs y^ctf prettily, but arc but 
thin and brittle. 
The Perrtmg is a (hell-fifii that lyeth in 
the Sands flit and round as a (hovel- board 
piece and vfeiry little thicker ^ thcfe at a lit- 
tle hole in the middle of the fliell thruft out 
si cap of nair, 6fuf upon the Icaft motion of 
any danger it dra\^es it in again. 
'Trouts there be good (lore in mry 
brook^ ordinarily two and twenty inches 
long^ 
