Under her belly she hath a bag, wherein she lodgeth, carrieth, and suckleth her young. An utchunquoye s is like a wild cat. Their foxes are like our silver haired conies, of a small proportion, and not smelling like those in England. Of birds the eagle is the greatest devourer. Their partridges are little bigger than our quail.
Wild turkeys are as big as our tame.
There are woosels or blackbirds with red shoulders, thrushes and divers sorts of small birds, some red, some blue, scarce so big as a wren, but few in summer. In winter there are great plenty of swans, cranes gray and white with black wings, herones, geese, brants, ducks, widgeon, dotterel, oxeyes, parrots, and pigeons. Brit, mullets, white salmon, trout, sole, plaice, herring, conyfish, rockfish, eels, lampreys, catfish, shad, perch of three sorts, crabs, shrimps, crayfish, oysters, cockles, and mussles. Concerning the entrails of the earth, little can be said for certainty. Only this is certain, that many regions lying in the same latitude, afford minds very rich of divers natures.