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the people to be more unhealthy at prefent, than 

 they were formerly. 



I likewife found every body agree in affcrting, 

 that the winter, betwixt the autumn of the year 

 1697, anc ^ h e fp r i n g f ^e ysar 1698, was the 

 coldeil and fevereft which they had ever felt. 



April 6th. SANGUINARIA Canadenfis, which 

 is here called Blood-root, becaufe the root is great 

 and red, and, when cut, looks like the root of 

 red beet, and the Epig&a repens, which fome.call 

 the creeping Ground Laurel, were both beginning 

 to flower. The former grew in a rich mould, 

 the other in a poorer foil. 



THE Laurus czflivalis, which fome people call 

 Spice-wood, likewife began to blpffpm about this 

 time ; its leaves were not yet broke, out 5 it liked 

 a moift foil in the woods. 



^/w/pth. APOCYNUM Cannabinum was by 

 the Swedes called Hemp -of the Indians*, and grew 

 plentifully in old corn-grounds, in woods, on 

 hills, and in high glades. The Swedes have given 

 it the name of Indian .hemp, becaufe the Indi- 

 ans formerly, and even now, apply it to the fame 

 purpofes as the Europeans do hemp j for the ftalk 

 may be divided into filaments, and is eafily. pre- 

 pared. When the Indians- were yet fettled among 

 the Swedes, in Penfyhanla and.A 7 ^ Jerfey, they 

 made ropes of this Apocynum,, which the Swedes 

 bought, and employed th<^ni as bridles, and for 

 nets. Thefe ropes were. Wronger,, and kept longer 

 in water, than fuch as were made of common 

 hemp. The Swedes, .commonly got fourteen 



yards 



