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TheStar Fish,[282]having fine points like a Star, the whole Fish no bigger than the Palm of a Mans hand, of a tough substance like leather, and about an Inch in thickness, whitish underneath, and of the Colour of a Cucumber above, and somewhat ruff: When it is warm in ones hand, you may perceive a stiff motion, turning down one point, and thrusting up another: It is taken to be poysonous; they are very common, and found thrown up on the Rocks by the Sea side.
Sea Bream, which are plentifully taken upon the Sea Coasts, their Eyes are accounted rare Meat, whereupon the proverbial comparison,It is worth a Sea Breams Eye.[283]
{96}Blew Fish, orHorse, I did never see any of them inEngland; they are as big usually as theSalmon, and better Meat by far: It is common inNew-Englandand esteemed the best sort of Fish next toRock Cod.
Cat Fish, having a round Head, and great glaring Eyes like a Cat: They lye for the most part in holes of Rocks, and are discovered by their Eyes: It is an excelling Fish.
Munk Fish, a flat Fish like scate, having a hood like a Fryers Cowl.
Clam, orClamp, a kind ofShell Fish, a white Muscle.
An Achariston, For Pin and Web.
Sheath Fish, which are there very plentiful, a delicate Fish, as good as aPrawn, covered with a thin Shell like the sheath of a Knife, and of the colour of aMuscle.
Which shell Calcin’d and Pulveriz’d, is excellent to take off a Pin and Web, or {97} any kind of Filme growing over the Eye.
Morse, orSea Horse, having a great Head, wide Jaws, armed with Tushes as white as Ivory, of body as big as a Cow, proportioned like a Hog, of brownish bay, smooth skin’d and impenetrable; they are frequent at the Isle ofSables, their Teeth are worth eight Groats the Pound; the best Ivory being Sold but for half the Money.[284]
For Poyson.
It is very good against Poyson.
For the Cramp.
As also for the Cramp, made into Rings.
For the Piles.
And a secret for thePiles, if a wise Man have the ordering of it.
TheManaty, a Fish as big as a Wine pipe, most excellent Meat; bred in the Rivers ofHispaniolain theWest Indies; it hath Teats, and nourisheth its young ones with Milk; it is of a green Colour, and tasteth like Veal.
{98}For the Stone Collick.
There is a Stone taken out of the Head that is rare for theStoneandCollect.
To provoke Urine.
Their Bones beat to a Powder and drank with convenient Liquors, is a gallant Urin provoking Medicine.
For Wound and Bruise.
AnIndian, whose Knee was bruised with a fall, and the Skin and Flesh strip’d down to the middle of the Calf of his Leg; Cured himself withWater LillyRoots boyled and stamped.[285]
For Swellings of the Foot.
AnIndianWebb, her Foot being very much swell’d and inflamed, asswaged the swelling, and took away the inflamation with our Garden orEnglish Patience, the Roots roasted.f. Cataplas. Anno 1670. June 28.
To dissolve a Scirrhous Tumour.
AnIndiandissolv’d aScirrhous Tumourin the Arm and Hip, with a fomentation of Tobacco, applying afterwards the Herb stamp’d betwixt two stones.