This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1737 Excerpt: ...or Grease helps all hardness, being of the Nature of Goose-grease. They flie with the Wind, make a great Noise, run fast, and are said to live about forty tears. TheJStofket are a larger Fowl than the former, and of the fame Shape, only their Necks are thickerand shorter, C c, v and and are of a dark grey Colour. They ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1737 Excerpt: ...or Grease helps all hardness, being of the Nature of Goose-grease. They flie with the Wind, make a great Noise, run fast, and are said to live about forty tears. TheJStofket are a larger Fowl than the former, and of the fame Shape, only their Necks are thickerand shorter, C c, v and and are of a dark grey Colour. They are frequently to be met with amongst the Cranes, they make a clattering Noise with their Bills, by the quick and frequent striking one Chap against the other. It is reported by several Persons whom I have conversed with, that they are to be found in no part of America but in this Province. They feed on Frogs, Snails, and many other sorts of Injects. The Flesh nourishes as that of the Herons and Bitterns, and the othef Parts of this Fowl have the fame Virtues with them. The Swans r whereof" there are two forts. The first are called the Trumpeters, from a trumpeting fort of noise they make, and are the largest fort of Swans in these parts. They come here in the Winter, and remain with us 'till February, in such great Flocks, that I never saw more of any Water-fowl in all my Travels than of them, for at that Season, they are in such vast Numbers on each side of the fresh Water Rivers and Creeks, that at a distance it seems to be Land covered with Snow. About Christmas they are frequently so fat, that some of them are scaree able to fly. In Spring they go to the Northern Lakes to breed. I have several times eat of them, and do prefer them before any Goose, for the goodness and delicacy of their Meat, and especially a Cygnet, or last years Swan. These Swans are larger than any I have seen in Europe. Their Quills and Feathers are in great request amongst the Planters. As to their Flesh and Parts, they have the fame Virtues with that of the Gees...
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