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our pilled Wheat ; or elfe a Piece of 'V”enifon bar- 
becutedy that is, wrapped up in Leaves, and roafted 
in the Embers. 
1 6. They drink, I think, little befides Succahan- 
nahy that is, fair Water, unlefs when they can get 
Spirits, fuch as Rum, from the Engl/fby which they 
will always drink to Excefs, if they can pollibly get 
them ; but do not much care for them, unlefs they 
can have enough to make them drunk; and I have 
heard it faid, that they wonder much at the Eng/ijh 
for purchafing Wine at fo dear a Rate, when Rum 
is much cheaper, and will make them fooner drunk. 
17. They ufe Tobacco muchy which they fmoak in 
fhort Pipes of their own making, having excellent 
Clay, which I tried a little before 1 came for Englandy 
making Crucibles thereof, which I could not difeern 
were inferior to the German, They make alfo neat 
Pots of the fame Clay, which will endure the Fire 
for any common Ufes. 
18. They have no Opiumy though in Ibrae old 
Fields upon Tork River y I found Poppies perhaps of 
no defpicable Virtue. I have been told, that in 
Fevers, and when their Sick cannot fleep, they apply 
the Flowers of Stramonium to the Temples, which 
has an Effedl like Laudanum. I have had afferted 
by many, that when the Soldiers were fent over to 
quell the Infurredlion of Bacony &c. they being at 
James-towny feveral of them went to gather a Sallad 
in the Fields, and lighting in great Quantities on an 
Herb called 'James-town-weedy they gathered it j and 
by eating thereof in plenty, were rendered apifh and 
foolilh, as if they had been drunk, or were become 
Idiots. Dr. Lee likewife alTured me, that the fame 
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