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ans eat it alfo With their meat: To heal bruifedLtmbs and Cats 
with the bark of Birch, boy led very tender, and ftampcd be- 
tween twoS tones to be a plaifter, and the decodlion thereof 
powred into the wound ; To take off a Pin or web^or any kind 
of film growing over the eye with the calcin'd and pulverized 
(bell of a Sheathfijb.whichisvcry plentiful inN^n^-Ewg/tf^^/j a de^ 
licate fiflij cover'd with a thin (hell and of the colour of a 
Mufle, 
Among the jfrnmalr^there arc fome that deferve to be takeo 
cotice of above the reft 5 as i. A Dear, calKd the Moo/e-dear , 
fome ofwhich are defcribed to be twelve foot high , with ex- 
ceeding fair Horns with broad palms 5 fome of them two f a« 
ihoms from the tip of one Horn to the other ; They have cora» 
monly three Fijn?«/ at a time, which are, to our Obfervers 
Palate, aaincomparable difli. 2. A monftrous great Bird^call'd 
Tilhannaw or Mechquan^ a kind of Hawk, four times as big as 
a GoCHawk, with a bead as big as a Childs of a year old^ a ve« 
ry Princely Bird ^ at whofe foaring abroad, all forts of fea- 
ther'd creatures hide themfelves; though (he never preys upoa 
any of them , but doth upon Fawm and Jaccals, i^Tht Scarlet. 
Mujile, having a purple; veinjwhich being prick t with a needle 
yeilds a perfe^ Purple or Scarlet Juyce that will not be waflit 
©ut of thcLinneo died there with^ found at Pafchatarvej^z Plan- 
tation about 50 Leagues by Sea Eaft-ward from Bejlon , in a 
fmall CToz/fjCaird Bakers A lime Beaft call'd a Mus^quajb^ 
feeding upon the baftard Calamus i^tdmatkus^hzihCoAi fcnting 
that aslweetandftrongasMuskj and laftiugthus a longtime^ 
wrapt up in Cotton-woof> 
Among Tlants there is one i taken by fome to ht a kind of 
Golden-^ J^d, by others for Sara^jis tmfound^y the Author tor 
^Ywid^iSunflovQBr^ or Weft Indian ^/«r?^o/J; of which the 
ftalk beneath and above the knob is covered with a multitude 
offnrattlBugs, about the bicknefs of a great Flea, which or- 
dei'd as they fliould be before they come to have wings, the 
Oblerver prefumeswill make good Cochineel ^ they yeilding 
a perf eft and durable Scarlet- colour. 
The New England Pea/e are faid by our Authornot onfy 
to be the be ft to the world , but free from being worm-eaten^. 
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