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where they {truck roots, and fucceeded very 

 well. I have feen them myfelf. 

 ^ The red 'Juniper- tree is another tree 

 which I have mentioned very frequently in 

 the courfe of my account. The Swedes 

 have given it the name of red Juniper, be- 

 caufe the wood is very red and fine within. 

 The Englifo call it red Cedar, and the 

 French Cedre rouge. However, the Swedi/h 

 name is the mod proper, as the tree be- 

 longs to the Junipers*. At its firft 

 growth it has a deal of fimilarity to the 

 Swedijh Juniper -f, but after it is grown 

 up it gets quite different leaves. The ber- 

 ry exactly refembles that of the Swedijh 

 Juniper, in regard to its colour and fhape ; 

 however, they are not fo big, though the 

 red Cedar grows very tall. At Raccoon 

 thefe trees ftood fingle, and were not very 

 tall. But at other places I have feen them 

 (landing together in clutters; they like 

 the fame ground as the common Swedifo 

 Juniper, efpecially on the rifing banks of 

 rivers, and on other rifing grounds, in a 

 dry, and frequently in a poor foil. I have 

 feen them growing in abundance, as thick 

 and tall as the talleft fir-trees, on poor dry 

 and fandy heaths. Towards Canada, or in 



the 



* Juniftrus Virginiana. Linn. Spec, pi. p. 1 1 4. 

 f jfun'perui communis. Linn. Spec. pi. p. 1 470. 



