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bandry in its various branches, if the scarcity of fresh water 

 which we frequently experience! in most of our excursions 

 through it, might not be severely felt in dry seasons, as 

 many of the Rillcts which supplied our wants, seemd to 

 depend on Rain or the Melted Snow from the Neighbour- 

 ing Mountains, which of consequence might then be dried 

 up & cause an insurmountable difficulty in procuring that 

 useful element so necessary to the existence of the animated 

 creation. 



The Woods here were chiefly composed of the Silver 

 Fir — White Spruce — Norway Spruce & Hemlock Spruce 

 together with the American Abor Vitae & Common Yew ; 

 & besides these we saw a variety of hard wood scattered 

 along the Banks of the Arms, such as Oak — the Sycamore 

 or great Maple — Sugar Maple — Mountain Maple & Pen- 

 sylvanian Maple — the Tacamahac & Canadian Poplars — the 

 American Ash — common Hazel — American Alder — Com- 

 mon Willow & the Oriental Arbute, but none of their hard 

 wood Trees were in great abundance or acquired sufficient 

 size to be of any great utility, except the Oak in some par- 

 ticular places, as at Port Gardner & Oak Cove. / We also 

 met here pretty frequent in the Wood with that beautiful 

 Native of the Levant the purple Rododendron, together with 

 the great flowered Dog wood, Common Dog-wood & Cana- 

 dian Dog-wood — the Caroline Rose & Dog Rose, but most 

 part of the Shrubs & Underwood were new & undescribed, 

 several of them I named, as Arbutus glaiica, Vaccinium 

 lucidum Vaccinium lucidum, Vaccinium tetragonum, Lonir- 

 cera Nootkagcnsis, Gaulthcria fruticosa. Spiraea scrrulata, 

 Rubus Nootkagcnsis. Others from particular circumstances 

 were doubtful & could not be ascertained till they are here- 

 after compared with more extensive description &c. on my 

 return to England. 



The wild fruits were Goosberries, Currants, two kinds 

 of Rasberries, two kinds of Whattleberries, small fruited 

 Crabs & a new species of Barberry. 



The Inhabitants of this extensive Country did not 

 appear to us on making every allowance of computation 

 from the different Villages & strolling parties that were 

 met with to exceed one thousand in all, a number indeed 

 too small for such a fine territory ; but when we reflect 

 that the hunting state is by no means a favorable state for 



1792. 

 .Tune 6tb. 



See Appendix. 



