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'779- zovva ; that there is likewife the fervice-tree (padus foliis an- 

 nuls) ; and two fpecies of the white- thorn, one bearing a red, 

 the other a black berry. 



Of the fhrub kind, as junipers, the mountain-afh, wild 

 rofe-trees, and rafberry-bufhes, the country produces great 

 abundance ; together with a variety of berries ; blue-berries 

 of two forts, round and oval; partridge-ben ies; cran berries; 

 crow-berries, and black-berries. Thefc the natives gather 

 at proper feafons, and preferve, by boiling them into a thick 

 jam, without fugar. They make no inconfiderable part of 

 their winter proviiions, and are ufed as fauce to their dried 

 and fait fifh ; of which kind of food they are unquelhon- 

 ably excellent correctives. They likewife eat them by them- 

 felves, in puddings, and various other ways, and make de- 

 coctions of them for their ordinary liquor. 



We met with feveral wholefome vegetables in a wild ftate, 

 and in great quantities, fucli as wild celery, angelica, cher- 

 vil, garlic, and onions. Upon fome few patches of ground 

 in the vallies, we found excellent turnips, and turnip- 

 radilhes. Their garden cultivation went no farther; yet 

 from hence I am led to conclude, that many of the hardy 

 forts of vegetables (fuch at lead as pufh their roots down- 

 ward), like carrots, parfnips, and beet, and perhaps pota- 

 toes, would thrive t ilerably well. Major Behm told me, 

 that fome other forts of kitchen vegetables had been tried, 

 but did not an. that neither any of the cabbage or 



lettuce kind would l er head; and that peafe and beans fhot 

 up very vigorous (talks, flowered and podded, but the pods 

 never filled. He likewife told me, that in the experiments 

 made by himfelf at Eolcherctfk, with different forts of 

 farinaceous grain, there generally came up a very high 

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