Goodwin says that somewhere where he lived they called cherry-birds “port-royals.”

  Haynes of Sudbury brought some axe-helves which he had been making to Smith’s shop to sell to-day . . .

  It is remarkable, that though I have not been able to find any open place in the river almost all winter except under the further stone bridge and at Loring’s Brook,—this winter so remarkable for ice and snow . . .