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pieces and applied it round his tooth ; and that 

 the pain had been leffened by it. Another Swede 

 aflured me, that he had been cured of the tooth- 

 ach, by applying the peel of the root to it. In 

 Carolina* they not only make candles out of the 

 wax of the berries, but likewife fealing wax, 



OS. 1 4th. PENNY Royal is a plant which has 

 a peculiar ftrong fcent, and grows abundantly oa 

 dry places in the country. Botanifts call it Cunila 

 pulegioidcs. It is reckoned very wholefome to 

 drink as a tea, when a perfon has got cold, as 

 it promotes perfpiration. I was likewife told, 

 that on feeling a pain in any limb, this plant, if 

 applied to it, would give immediate relief. 



THE goods which are (hipped to London from 

 New England are the following : all forts of fifh 

 caught near Newfoundland and elfewhere ; train- 

 oil of feveral forts; whalebone, tar, pitch, marts, 

 new {hips, of which a great number is annually 

 built, a few hides, and fometimes fome forts of 

 wood. The Englijh iflands in America, as Ja- 

 maica and Barbadoes, get from New England, fifh, 

 flefh, butter, cheefe, tallow, horfes, cattle; all 

 forts of lumber, fuch as pails, buckets, and hog- 

 meads; and have returns made in rum, fugar, 

 molaffrs, and other produces of the country, or 

 in cam, thegreateft part of ail which they fend to 

 London (the money efpecially) in payment of the 

 goods received from thence, and yet all this is in- 

 fufficient to pay off the debt. 



Off. .1 5111. THE Alders grew here in confide- 

 rable abundance on wet and low places, and even 

 fometimes on pretty high ones, but never reached 

 the height of the European alders, ^nd 'commonly 



flood 



