They Are Very Flat, And Are Eaten As The Windsor-Bean Is,
Being An Extraordinary Well-Relish'd Pulse, Either By Themselves,
Or With Meat.
{Indian Rouncevals.}
We have the Indian Rounceval, or Miraculous Pease, so call'd
from their long Pods, and great Increase.
These are latter Pease,
and require a pretty long Summer to ripen in. {Pease and Beans.}
They are very good; and so are the Bonavis, Calavancies, Nanticokes,
and abundance of other Pulse, too tedious here to name,
which we found the Indians possess'd of, when first we settled in America;
some of which sorts afford us two Crops in one Year;
as the Bonavis and Calavancies, besides several others of that kind.
{Eng. Bean.}
Now I am launch'd into a Discourse of the Pulse, I must acquaint you,
that the European Bean planted here, will, in time, degenerate into
a dwarfish sort, if not prevented by a yearly Supply of foreign Seed,
and an extravagant rich Soil; yet these Pigmy-Beans are
the sweetest of that kind I ever met withal.
{Pease.}
As for all the sorts of English Pease that we have yet
made tryal of, they thrive very well in Carolina. Particularly,
the white and gray Rouncival, the common Field-Pease,
and Sickle-Pease yield very well, and are of a good Relish.
As for the other sorts, I have not seen any made tryal of as yet,
but question not their coming to great Perfection with us.
{Kidney-Bean.}
The Kidney-Beans were here before the English came, being very plentiful
in the Indian Corn-Fields.
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