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ther, and as carefully packed in cafks with moift 
fugar, they will keep for years, and are annually 
fent to England in confiderable quantities as pre- 
fents, where they are much efteemed. When the 
fhips have remained in the Bay fo late that the 
Cranberries are ripe, fome of the Captains have 
carried them home in water with great fuccefs. . 
The HeaTuHsBerRties are in fome years fo plen- 
tiful near Churchill, that it is impoffible to walk 
in many places without treading on thoufands and 
millions of them. They grow clofe to the ground, 
and are a favourite repaft of many birds that mi- 
grate to thofe parts in Summer, particularly the 
Grey Goofe; on which account the Indians di- 
tinguifh them by the name of. Nifhca-minnick, 
or the Grey Goofeberry. The juice of this berry 
makes an exceeding pleafant beverage, and the 
fruit itfelf would be more pleafing were it not 
for the number of {mall feeds it contains. 
BETHAGO-TOMINICK, as it is called by the Indi- 
ans, or the Dewater-berry of Mr. Dragge. I> 
have feen this berry as far North as Marble Iland, 
and that in great abundance. It flourifhes beft, 
and is moit productive, in fwampy boggy ground 
covered with mofs, and is feldom found among 
grafs. The plant itfelf is not very unlike that of 
a Strawberry, but the leaves are larger. Out of 
the center of the plant fhoots a fingle ftalk, fome- 
times te the height of feven or eight inches, and 
cach plant only produces one berry, which at 
fome diftance refembles a Strawberry; but on 
exami- 
