New-England's Rarities Discovered in Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, and Plants of that CountryW. Veazie, 1865 - 169 pagina's |
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Pagina 36 - From this rocky Hill you may fee the whole Country round about ; it is far above the lower Clouds, and from hence we beheld a Vapour (like a great Pillar). drawn up by the Sun Beams out of a great Lake or Pond into the Air, where it was formed into a Cloud. The Country beyond thefe Hills, Northward is daunting terrible, being full of rocky Hills, as thick as Mole-hills in a Meadow, and cloathed with infinite thick Woods.
Pagina 78 - Indian; of a sea serpent or snake that lay coiled up like a cable upon a rock at Cape Ann: a boat passing by with English aboard and two Indians, they would have shot the serpent, but the Indians dissuaded them, saying that if he were not killed outright they would be all in danger of their lives.
Pagina 40 - commonly have four or five young ones, and when they go away, which is much about the time that swallows use to depart, they never fail to throw down one of their young birds into the room by way of gratitude. I have more than once observed that, against the ruin of the family, these birds will suddenly forsake the house and come no more.
Pagina 102 - Indian msickquatash (that is, succotash, as we call it now) was " boiled corn whole," and " nawsaump, a kind of meal pottage unparched. From this the English call their samp; which is the Indian corn beaten and boiled, and eaten, hot or cold; with milk or butter, — which are mercies beyond the natives' plain water, and which is a dish exceeding wholesome for the English bodies.
Pagina 118 - Wood (New-Eng. Prospect, chap. v.) makes mention of a "cedar-tree, . . . a tree of no great growth; not bearing above a foot and a half, at the most; neither is it very high. . . . This wood is more desired for ornament than substance; being of colour red and white, like eugh; smelling as sweet as juniper. It is commonly used for ceiling of houses, and making of chests, boxes, and staves.
Pagina 36 - Acre of ground, with a pond of clear water in the midst of it; which you may hear run down, but how it ascends is a mystery. From this rocky Hill you may see the whole Country round about; it is far above the lower Clouds, and from hence we beheld a...
Pagina 65 - Harbour, and some way up the river; but we could never take any of them. Several have shot sluggs at them, but lost their labour.
Pagina 118 - L.) ; also called white-cedar. — Compare Emerson, Trees and Shrubs of Mass., pp. 96, 100. For mention of the juniper, see ante, p. 49. To break Sore or Swelling. The Indians break and heal their Swellings and Sores with it, boyling the inner Bark of young Hemlock very well, then knocking of it betwixt two...
Pagina 102 - Indians for so much beaver as was worth 18 shillings ; and so of this 13 gallons of corne, which was worth 6 shillings 8 pence, he made about 327 pounds of it in the yeere following, as by reckoning will appeare: where you may see how God blessed husbandry in this land.
Pagina 76 - Slimy outside makes him seld' in date; The stately Bass, old Neptune's fleeting post, That tides it out and in from sea to coast...