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pie however agree that they are met with in great 

 quantity more to the north, near Cape Breton.* 



THE ladies make wine from fome of the fruits 

 of the land, They principally take white and red 

 currants for that purpofe, fince the fhrtibs of this 

 kind are very plentiful in the gardens, and fuc- 

 ceed very well. An old failor, who had frequently 

 been in Newfoundland, told me that red currants 

 grew wild in that country in great quantity. 

 They likewife make a wine of ftrawberries, 

 Which grow in great plenty in the woods, but are 

 fourer than the Swedifo ones. The American 

 blackberries, or Rubus occidental}*, are likewife 

 made ufe of for this purpofe, for they grow every 

 where about the fields, almoft as abundantly as 

 thirties in Sweden, and have a very agreeable 

 tafte. In Maryland a wine is made of the wild 

 grapes, which grow in the woods of that pro- 

 vince. Rafpberries and cherries which are planted 

 on purpofe, and taken great care of, likewiie af- 

 ford a very fine wine. It is unneceffary to give 

 an account of the manner of making the currant 

 wine, for in Sweden this art is in higher perfec- 

 tion than in North America. 



Sept. 2 1 ft. THE common Privet, or Ligujlrum 

 vulgare Linn, grows among the bufhes in thick- 

 ets and woods. But I cannot determine whether 

 it belongs to the indigenous plants, or to thofe 

 which the Engtifo have introduced, the fruits of 



* THIS has been confirmed, fmce Cape Bretcnis in the hands of 

 the Englijh\ and it is reported that the ilrau of coals run through 

 the whole ifle, and fome baflet out to day near the fea-fhore, Ib 

 that this ifle will afford immenfe treafures of coals, when the go- 

 vernment will find it convenient to have them dug for the benefit 

 of the nation. F. 



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