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fometimes upon a table, or before the windows, 

 either on account of their fine appearance, or for 

 the fake of their fweet fcent. The Gnaphalium 

 abovementioned, was one of thofe which they' 

 kept in their rooms during the winter, becaufe 

 its flowers never altered from what they were 

 when they ftood in the ground. Mr. Bartram 

 told me another ufe of this plant. A decodtion 

 of the flowers and ftalks is ufed to bathe any 

 pained or bruifed part, or it is rubbed with the 

 plant itfelf tied up in a bag. 



INSTEAD of flax feveral people made ufe of a 

 kind of Dogs bane> or Linnaufs Apocynum can- 

 nablnum. The people prepared the ftalks of this 

 plant, in the fame manner as we prepare thofe of 

 hemp or flax, It was fpun, and feveral kinds of 

 fluffs were woven from it. The favages are faid 

 to have had the art of making bags, fifhing-nets, 

 and the like, for many centuries together, before 

 the arrival of the Europeans. 



I ASKED Mr. Bartram, whether he had ob- 

 ferved in his travels that the water was fallen, 

 and that the fea had formerly covered any places 

 which were now land. He told me, that from 

 what he had experienced, he was convinced, that 

 the greateft part of this country, even for feveral 

 miles together, had formerly been under water. 

 The reafons which led him to give credit to this 

 opinion were the following. 



i. ON digging in the blue mountains, which 

 are above three hundred Englifli miles diflant 

 from the lea, you find loofe oyiler and other forts 

 of {hells -, and they are alfo Jikewife to be met 

 with in the vallies formed by thefc mountains. 



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