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For the heat hi Feavers. 
They are alfo good to allay the fervour of hot Difeafes. 
The Indians and EngliJJi ufe them much, boyling them 
with Sugar for Sauce to eat with their Meat; and it is a 
delicate Sauce, efpecially for roafted Mutton: Some make 
Tarts with them as with Goofe Berries. 
Vine, much differing in the Fruit, all of them very 
flefhy, fome reafonably pleafant; others have a tafte of 
Gun Powder, and thefe grow in Swamps, and low wet 
Grounds. 1 
[67] 3. Of fuch Plants as are proper to the Country, and 
have no Name. 
(1.) 
PIrola, or Winter Green, that kind which grows with 
us in England is common in New -England? but 
1 Wood says the " vines afford great store of grapes, which are very big, both 
for the grape and cluster ; sweet and good. These be of two sorts, — red and 
white. There is likewise a smaller kind of grape which groweth in the islands" 
(that is, of Massachusetts Bay), "which is sooner ripe, and more delectable; so 
that there is no known reason why as good wine may not be made in those parts, 
as well as Bordeaux in France ; being under the same degree." — Nezv-Eng. Pros- 
pe6l, chap. v. "Vines," says Mr. Graves (in New-Eng. Plantation, Hist. Coll., 
vol. i. p. 124) " doe grow here, plentifully laden with the biggest grapes that ever 
I saw. Some I have seene foure inches about." — "Our Governour," adds Hig- 
ginson, " hath already planted a vineyard, with great hope of encrease." — JVezv- 
Englatid's Plantation, I. c, p. 119. Vitis Labrusca, L. (fox-grape), — for some 
principal varieties of which, see Emerson, /. c, p. 468, — furnished, probably, most 
of the sorts known favorably to the first settlers ; but V. cestivalis, Michx. (summer 
grape), also occurs on our seaboard. 
2 Pyrola, L., emend. (Gerard, p. 40S). All but one of our species are common 
also to Europe. 
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