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Cocks that have weighed forty, yea fixty pound; but out 
of my perfonal experimental knowledge I can alTure you, 
that I have eaten my fhare of a Turkie Cock, that when he 
the fide of a marfh, sunning of themfelves in a morning 
betimes, but this was thirty years fince, the EngliJJi and 
the Indians having now deftroyed the breed, fo that 'tis 
very rare to meet with a wild Turkie in the Woods; But 
fome of the EngliJJi bring up great ftore of the wild kind, 
which remain about their Houfes as tame as ours in 
England. 
Goojc, the White Goofc, and the Brant: The Goofe will 
evening, and watched where they perch, — if one come about ten or eleven of the 
clock, — he may shoot as often as he will : they will sit, unless they be slenderly 
wounded. These turkies remain all the year long. The price of a good turkey- 
cock is four shillings; and he is well worth it, for he may be in weight forty 
pounds; a hen, two shillings." — Wood, JV. Eng. Prosficd, chap. viii. See also 
Josselyn's Voyages, p. 99. 
1 "The geese of the country be of three sorts. First, a brant goose; which is 
a goose almost like the wild goose in England. The price of one of these is six- 
pence. The second kind is a white goose, almost as big as an English tame 
goose. These come in great flocks about Michaelmas : sometimes there will be 
two or three thousand in a flock. Those continue six weeks, and so fly to the 
southward; returning in March, and staying six weeks more, returning to 
the northward. The price of one of these is eightpence. The third kind of 
geese is a great grey goose, with a black neck, and a black and white head ; 
strong of flight : and these be a great deal bigger than the ordinary geese of 
England ; some very fat, and, in the spring, full of feathers, that the shot can 
scar.ee pierce them. Most of these geese remain with us from Michaelmas to 
April. They feed in the sea upon grass in the bays at low water, and gravel, and 
there are three kinds; the Gray 
