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New-England's rarities discovered
John Josselyn and Edward Tuckerman
In 1672 an English traveler cataloged a new world: the birds, beasts, fishes, serpents, insects, and plants of colonial New England, with notes on the remedies settlers and native people made from them. Josselyn's rarities range from the practical to the wonderfully credulous. One of the first natural histories of America, still fresh with first-contact astonishment. Exploration and herb lore in one small volume.
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21 chapters
- 1NEW-ENGLAND’S RARITIES.
- 2Publisher’s Advertisement.
- 3INTRODUCTION.
- 41672 edition by Josselyn.
- 5First, Of Birds.[34]
- 6Secondly, Of Beasts.[45]
- 7{23} Thirdly, Of Fishes.[62]
- 8{38} Fourthly, Of Serpents, and Insects.[102]
- 9Of Insects.[105]
- 10{41} Fifthly, Of Plants.
- 111. Of such Plants as are common with us in ENGLAND.
- 122. Of such Plants as are proper to the Country.
- 13{67} 3. Of such Plants as are proper to the Country, and have no Name.
- 14{85} 4. Of such Plants as have sprung up since the English Planted and kept Cattle in New-England.[239]
- 155. Of such Garden Herbs (amongst us) as do thrive there, and of such as do not.[262]
- 16{92} Sixthly and lastly,
- 17{95} An Addition of some RARITIES overslipt.
- 18A DESCRIPTION OF AN INDIAN SQUA.[286]
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