NORTHERN OCEAN. as 
examination they have not that. conical form ; 
and many of them are only compofed of three or 
four lobes, while others confift of near twenty. 
The flavour of this berry is far from unpleafing, 
and it is eaten by our people in confiderable 
quantities during the feafon, (which is Augutt,) 
and, like all the other fruits in thofe parts, is fup- 
pofed to be wholefome, and a great antifcorbutic. 
- Currans, both red and black, are common Currans. 
about Churchill River, but the latter are far more 
plentiful than the former, and are very large and 
fine. The bufhes on which thofe currans grow, 
frequently exceed three feet in height, and ge- 
nerally thrive beft in thofe parts that are moift 
but not fwampy. Small vallies between the 
rocks, at fome little diftance from the woods, are 
very favourable to them; and I have frequently 
obferved that the fruit produced in thofe fituati- 
ons is larger and finer than that which is found 
inthe woods. Thofe berries have a very great 
effect on fome people if eaten in any confiderable 
quantities, by acting as a very powerful purgative, 
and in fome as an emetic at the fame time; 
but if mixed with Cranberries, they never have 
that effect. 
JuNIPER-BERRIES are frequently found near the J¢""""- 
new fettlement at Churchill River, but by no 
means in fuch plenty as in the more Southern 
and interior parts ‘of the country. The bufh 
they grew on is fo fimilar to the creeping pine, 
that one half of the Company’s fervants refidine 
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