flint corn; the other has a larger grain, and looks
shriveled, with a dent on the back of the grain, as if it had never come
to perfection; and this they call she corn. This is esteemed by the
planters as the best for increase, and is universally chosen by them for
planting; yet I can't see but that this also produces the flint corn,
accidentally among the other.

All these sorts are planted alike in rows, three, four or five grains in
a hill; the larger sort at four or five feet distance, the lesser sort
nearer. The Indians used to give it one or two weedings, and make a hill
about it, and so the labor was done. They likewise plant a bean in the
same hill with the corn, upon whose stalk it sustains itself.

The Indians sowed peas sometimes in the intervals of the rows of corn,
but more generally in a patch of ground by themselves. They have an
unknown variety of them, (but all of a kidney shape,) some of which I
have met with wild; but whence they had their Indian corn I can give no
account; for I don't believe that it was spontaneous in those parts.

Their potatoes are either red or white, about as long as a boy's leg,
and sometimes as long and big as both the leg and thigh of a young
child, and very much resembling it in shape. I take these kinds to be
the same with those which are represented in the herbals to be Spanish
potatoes. I am sure those called English or Irish potatoes are nothing
like these, either in shape, color or taste. The way of propagating
potatoes there, is by cutting the small ones to pieces, and planting the
cuttings in hills of loose earth; but they are so tender, that it is
very difficult to preserve them in the winter, for the least frost
coming at them, rots and destroys them, and therefore people bury 'em
under ground, near the fire-hearth, all the winter, until the time comes
that their seedings are to be set.

How the Indians ordered their tobacco I am not certain, they now
depending chiefly upon the English for what they smoke; but I am
informed they used to let it all run to seed, only succoring the leaves
to keep the sprouts from growing upon, and starving them; and when it
was ripe they pulled off the leaves, cured them in the sun, and laid
them up for use. But the planters make a heavy bustle with it now, and
can't please the market neither.

CHAPTER V.

OF THE FISH.

Sec. 21. As for fish, both of fresh and salt water, of shell fish, and
others, no country can boast o