their victuals dressed, and served up as nicely, as if
they were in London.

Sec. 71. When I come to speak of their cattle, I can't forbear charging my
countrymen with exceeding ill husbandry, in not providing sufficiently
for them all winter, by which means they starve their young cattle, or
at least stint their growth; so that they seldom or never grow so large
as they would do, if they were well managed; for the humor is there, if
people can but save the lives of their cattle, though they suffer them
to be never so poor in the winter, yet they will presently grow fat
again in the spring, which they esteem sufficient for their purpose. And
this is the occasion, that their beef and mutton are seldom or never so
large, or so fat as in England. And yet with the least feeding
imaginable, they are put into as good case as can be desired; and it is
the same with their hogs.

Their fish is in vast plenty and variety, and extraordinary good in
their kind. Beef and pork are commonly sold there, from one penny, to
two pence the pound, or more, according to the time of year; their
fattest and largest pullets at sixpence a piece; their capons at eight
pence or nine pence a piece; their chickens at three or four shillings
the dozen; their ducks at eight pence, or nine pence a piece; their
geese at ten pence or a shilling; their turkey hens at fifteen or
eighteen pence; and their turkey cocks at two shillings or half a crown.
But oysters and wild fowl are not so dear, as the things I have reckoned
before, being in their season the cheapest victuals they have. Their
deer are commonly sold from five to ten shillings, according to the
scarcity and goodness.

Sec. 72. The bread in gentlemen's houses is generally made of wheat, but
some rather choose the pone, which is the bread made of Indian meal.
Many of the poorer sort of people so little regard the English grain,
that though they might have it with the least trouble in the world, yet
they don't mind to sow the ground, because they won't be at the trouble
of making a fence particularly for it. And, therefore, their constant
bread is pone, not so called from the Latin panis, but from the Indian
name oppone.

Sec. 73. A kitchen garden don't thrive better or faster in any part of the
universe than there. They have all the culinary plants that grow in
England, and in greater perfection than in England. Besides these, they
have several roots, herbs, vine fruits, and salad flowers pec