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flower. Mr. Bar tram was acquainted with a 

 better quality of this plant, which was that 

 of being an excellent remedy againft all forts 

 of pain in the limbs, and againft a cold, 

 when the parts affected are rubbed with it. 

 And Mr. Conrad Weiffer, interpreter of the 

 language of the Indians in Penjylvania, had 

 told him of a more wonderful cure with 

 this plant. He was once among a com- 

 pany of Indians, one of which had been 

 flung by a rattle fnake, the favages gave 

 him over, but he boiled the collinfonia, 

 and made the poor wretch drink the water, 

 from which he happily recovered. Some- 

 what more to the north and in New York 

 they call this plant Horfeweed, becaufe the 

 horfes eat it in fpring, before any other 

 plant comes up. 



Oftober the 16th. I asked Mr. Frank- 

 lin and other gentlemen who were well ac- 

 quainted with this country, whether they 

 had met with any figns, from whence they 

 could have concluded that any place which 

 was now a part of the continent, had for^ 

 merly been covered with water ? and I got 

 the following account in anfwer. 



1. On travelling from hence to the 

 fouth, you meet with a place where the 

 highroad is very low in the ground between 

 two mountains. On both fides you fee 



N 4 nothing 



