MISCELLANEOUS 



FACTS AND OBSERVATIONS- 



1. THE Indians here (at Onondaga, in the 

 State of New- York) decrease. Three years ago, 

 there were 133, and last spring, when they received 

 their money, there were but 105. They almost all 

 die of phthisis pulmonalis. They have had within 

 this year two pair of twins, something uncommon. It 

 is sixteen or seventeen years since twins were born 

 among them before. 



Mr. James Geddes, 

 of Onondaga. November 15th, 1798. 



2. Last summer, when I was near the settlement 

 of the Oneida-Indians (in the state of New- York), the 

 dysentery prevailed much, and carried off some of 

 the white inhabitants, who applied to the Indians for 

 a remedy. They directed them to drink a decoction 

 of the roots of Blackberry-bushes*, which they did, 



* Rubus occidentalis. Editor. 



