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live a long time; I once found in a White Goofe three 
Hearts, fhe was a very old one, and fo tuff, that we gladly 
gave her over although exceeding well roafted. 
The B loody-Flux Cured. 
A Friend of mine of good Quality living fometime in 
Virginia was fore troubled for a long time with the 
Bloody-Flux, having tryed feveral Remedies by the advice 
of his Friends without any good effecl:, at laft was in- 
duced with a longing delire to drink the Fat Dripping 
[10] of a Goofe newly taken from the Fire, which abfo- 
lutely cured him, who was in defpair of ever recovering 
his health again. 
The Gripe and Vtilture. 
The Gripe, which is of two kinds, the one with a White 
Head, the other with a black Head, this we take for the 
Vulture. They are both cowardly Kitcs^ preying upon 
in the woods of acorns; having, as other fowl have, their pass and repass to the 
northward and southward. The accurate marksmen kill of these both flying and 
sitting. The price of a grey goose is eighteen-pence." — Wood, IV. E. Prospcd, 
I. c. The white goose here mentioned is probably the snow-goose ; upon which 
compare Nuttall, Mass. Ornith., Water-Birds, p. 344. Josselyn (Voyages, p. 100) 
says the brant and the gray goose " are best meat; the white are lean and tough, 
and live a long time; whereupon the proverb, 'Older than a white goose:'" 
which is not supported by Wood or later writers. The snow-goose has become 
much less frequent with us since the settlement of the country. The great grey 
goose of Wood is our well-known Canada goose. 
1 This was the best that our author could say of the eagles of New England. 
Wood assists us once more here : " The eagles of the country be of two sorts, — 
one like the eagles that be in England ; the other is something bigger, with a 
great white head and white tail. These be commonly called gripes." — Nero-Eng. 
