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Bill Berries, two kinds, Black and Sky Coloured, which 
is more frequent. 1 
[60] To cool the heat of Beavers, and quench Thirjl. 
They are very good to allay the burning heat of Feavers, 
and hot Agues, either in Syrup or Conferve. 
A mojl excellent Summer DifJi. 
They ufually eat of them put into a Bafon, with Milk, 
and fweetned a little more with Sugar and Spice, or for 
cold Stomachs, in Sack. The Indians dry them in the 
Sun, and fell them to the Englifk by the Bujhell, who 
make ufe of them inftead of Currence, putting of them 
into Puddens, both boyled and baked, and into Water 
Gruel. 
Knot Berry, or Clowde Berry, feldom ripe. 2 
1 " Attitaash (whortleberries), of which there are divers sorts; sweet, like 
currants; some opening, some of a binding nature. Sautaash are these currants 
dried by the natives, and so preserved all the year ; which they beat to powder, 
and mingle it with their parched meal, and make a delicate dish which they call 
sautauthig, which is as sweet to them as plum or spice cake to the English." — 
R. Williams, Key, dec, I. c, p. 221. The fruitful and wholesome American 
whortleberries, or bilberries, were, it is likely, a very pleasant discovery to our 
forefathers. It was, no doubt, those species that we call blueberries which they 
made most of, and particularly the low blueberry (Vaccinium Pen}is\lvanicum, 
Lam.) and the swamp-blueberry ( V. corymbosum, L.). From these the common 
black whortleberry (Gaylussacia resinosa, Torr. and Gray) differs no less in quali- 
ty than in structure. Sa l te (compare sautaash, above), in Rasles Dift. of the 
Abnaki Language, /. c, p. 450, is rendered " frais, sans etre sees ; lorsq'ils s't sees, 
sikisa'tar." 
2 The cloud-berry — Rubus chamamorus, L. (Gerard, p. 1420) — is found in 
some parts of the subalpine region of the White Mountains; and Mr. Oakes 
detected it at Lubec, on the coast of Maine. It is common to both continents; 
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