NORTHERN OCEAN. 
With refpect to the {maller produétions of the 
vegetable world, I am obliged to be in a great 
“meafure filent, as the nature of my various occu- 
pations during my refidence in this country gave 
me little leifure, and being unacquainted with 
botany, I viewed with inattention things that 
were not of immediate ufe: the few which follow 
are all that particularly engaged my attention. 
The WisH-a-ca-pucca, which grows in moft 
parts of this country, is faid by fome Authors to 
have great medical virtues, applied, either in- 
wardly as an alterative, or outwardly dried and 
pulverifed, to old fores and gangrenes. The 
truth, of this 1 much doubt, and could never 
think it had the leaft medical quality. It is, how- 
ever, much ufed by the lower clafs of the Com- 
pany’s fervants as tea; and by fome is thought 
very pleafant. But the flower is by far the moft 
delicate, and if gathered at a proper time, and 
carefully dried in the fhade, will retain its fla- 
vour for many years, and make a far more plea- 
fant beverage than the leaves. There are feveral 
fpecies of this plant, of which fome of the leaves 
are nearly as large as that of the Creeping Wil- 
low, while others are as {mall and narrow as that 
of the Rofemary, and much refembles it in co- 
lour; but all the fpecies have the fame fmell and 
flavour. 
JacxaAsHey-Ppuck. This herb much refembles 
Creeping Box; and is only ufed, either by the 
Indians or Englifh, to mix with tobacco, which 
makes it {moke mild and pleafant ; and would, I 
am, 
457 
Wihh-a-ca~ 
pucca. 
Jakafhey- 
puck. 
