Bill Berries, two kinds, Black and Sky Coloured, which is more frequent.[215]
{60} To cool the heat of Feavers, and quench Thirst.
They are very good to allay the burning heat of Feavers, and hot Agues, either in Syrup or Conserve.
A most excellent Summer Dish.
They usually eat of them put into a Bason, with Milk, and sweetned a little more with Sugar and Spice, or for cold Stomachs, in Sack. The Indians dry them in the Sun, and sell them to the English by the Bushell, who make use of them instead of Currence, putting of them into Puddens, both boyled and baked, and into Water Gruel.
Knot Berry, or Clowde Berry, seldom ripe.[216]
Sumach, differing from all that I did ever see in the Herbalists; our English Cattle devour it most abominably, leaving neither Leaf nor Branch, yet it sprouts again next Spring.[217]
For Colds.