274 November 1748. 



it is fcattered in the orchards, in order to ferve as 

 a manure by putrifying. Neither cattle nor any 

 other animal will eat of it, except in the greateft 

 neceffity, when the fnow covers the ground, and 

 nothing elfe is to be met with. But though buck- 

 wheat is fo common in the Englijh colonies, yet 

 the French had no right notion of it in Canada, 

 and it was never cultivated among them. 



TOWARDS night we found fome Glow Worms 

 in the wood : their body was linear, confiding of 

 eleven articulations, a little pointed before and 

 behind ; the length from head to tail was five and 

 a half geometrical lines ; the colour was brown, 

 and the articulations joined in the fame manner 

 as in the onifci or woodlice. The antennae or feel 

 horns were fliort and filiform, or thread-fhaped ; 

 and the feet were fattened to the foremofl articu- 

 lations of the body : when the infed: creeps, its 

 hindmoft articulations are dragged on the ground, 

 and help its motion. The extremity of the tail 

 contains a matter which mines in the dark, with 

 a green light : the in fed: could draw it in, fo that 

 it was not viiible. It had rained confiderably all 

 day, yet they crept in great numbers among the 

 bufhes, fo that the ground feemed as it were Town 

 with ftars. I (hall in the fequel have occafion to 

 mention another kind of infeds or flies which 

 fhine in the dark, when flying in the air. 



Nov. 24th. HOLLY, or Ilex Aquifolium, 

 grows in wet places, fcattered in the foreft, and 

 belongs to the rare trees4..its leaves are green both 

 in fummer and in vyinter. Tke Swedes dry its 

 leaves, bruife them in a mortar, boil them in 

 imall beer, and take them againft the pleurify. 

 c RED 



