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really deferves a place among the moft palatable 

 fruit of this country, when the frofl has tho- 

 roughly conquered its acrimony. 



THE Verb af cum Tbapfus, or great white Mul- 

 lein, grows in great quantity on roads, in hedges, 

 on dry fields, and high meadows of a ground 

 mixed with land. The Swedes here call it the 

 tobacco of the favages, but owned, that they did 

 not know whether or no the Indians really ufed 

 this plant inftead of tobacco. The Swedes are 

 ufed to tie the leaves round their feet and arms 

 when they have the ague. Some of them pre- 

 pared a tea from the leaves, for the dyfentery. A 

 Swede likewife told me, that a decoction of trie 

 * roots was injected into the wounds of the cattle 

 which are full of worms, which killed thefe 

 worms, and made them fall out. ^ 



Sept. 28th. THE meadows which are fur- 

 rounded by wood, and were at prefent mown, 

 have a fine lively verdure. On the contrary, 

 when they lie on hills, or in open fields, or in 

 fome elevated fituation, efpecially fo that the fun 

 may be able to act upon them without any obfla- 

 cles, their grafs looks brown and dry. Several 

 people from Virginia told me, that on account of 

 the great heat and drought, the meadows and 

 paftures almoft always had a brown colour, and 

 looked as if they were burnt. The inhabitants 

 of thofe parts do not therefore enjoy the pleafure 



* THESE worms are the Larvas of the Oe/lrus or Gvdfy, which 

 depofus its eggs on the biitk of cattle, and the Larvas being 

 hatched from thefe eggs, caufe great fojes, wherein they live tiil 

 they are ready for their change. In the iouth of . y ufe 



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