A true and faithful account of the four chiefest plantations of the English in America to wit, of Virginia, New-England, Bermudus, Barbados : with the temperature of the air, the nature of the soil, the rivers, mountains, beasts, fowls, birds, fishes, trees, plants, fruits, &c. : as also, of the natives of Virginia, and New-England, their religion, customs, fishing, hunting, &c. / collected by Samuel Clarke ...

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Title: A true and faithful account of the four chiefest plantations of the English in America to wit, of Virginia, New-England, Bermudus, Barbados : with the temperature of the air, the nature of the soil, the rivers, mountains, beasts, fowls, birds, fishes, trees, plants, fruits, &c. : as also, of the natives of Virginia, and New-England, their religion, customs, fishing, hunting, &c. / collected by Samuel Clarke ...
Author: Clarke, Samuel, 1599-1682.
Publication: London :: Printed for Robert Clavel, Thomas Passenger, William Cadman, William Whitwood, Thomas Sawbridge, and William Birch,; 1670.
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TAR.

They have no Mines, not so much as of Coles in the Islands. There flows out of the Rock an Unctious substance, somewhat like Tar: It is excellent good to stop a Flux being drunk: And for all Aches, and Bruises, being anointed with it.

It is so subtile that being put into the hand and rubbed there, it works through the back of it.