monds, glaz'd
almonds;" honey, curds and cream, sage cheese, green pease, barley,
"Yokhegg in milk, chockolett, figgs," oranges, shattucks, apples,
quinces, strawberries, cherries, and raspberries; a very fair list of
viands.

"Yokhegg" is probably "yeokheag," a name for Indian corn, parched and
pounded into meal, a name by which it was known for many years in
Eastern Connecticut.

Sewall was a very valiant trencher-man. He records with much zest going
down the Bay to an island, or riding to Roxbury for an outing and
dinner, and coming home in "brave moonshine." And, like his neighbor,
Cotton Mather, he drew many a spiritual lesson from the food set before
him; especially, however, at a scambling meal, or at any repast which he
ate alone, and hence had naught and no one to divert therefrom his
ever-religious thoughts.

From a curious account of Boston, written by a traveller named Bennet,
in the year 1740, we take the following statements of the cost of food
there:

"Their poultry of all sorts are as fine as can be desired, and they
have plenty of fine fish of various kinds, all of which are very
cheap. Take the butchers' meat all together, in every season of the
year, I believe it is about twopence per pound sterling; the best
beef and mutton, lamb and veal are often sold for sixpence per
pound of New England money, which is some small matter more than
one penny sterling.

"Poultry in their season are exceeding cheap. As good a turkey may
be bought for about two shillings sterling as we can buy in London
for six or seven, and as fine a goose for tenpence as would cost
three shillings and sixpence or four shillings in London. The
cheapest of all the several kinds of poultry are a sort of wild
pigeon, which are in season the latter end of June, and so continue
until September. They are large, and finer than those we have in
London, and are sold here for eighteenpence a dozen, and sometimes
for half of that.

"Fish, too, is exceeding cheap. They sell a fine fresh cod that
will weigh a dozen pounds or more, just taken out of the sea, for
about twopence sterling. They have smelts, too, which they sell as
cheap as sprats are in London. Salmon, too, they have in great
plenty, and those they sell for about a shilling apiece, which will
weigh fourteen or fifteen pounds.

"They have venison very plenty. Th