80 February 1749. 



over all North America? and grows in fucfi 

 places where we commonly find our whor- 

 tle-berries in Sweden. The American ones ' 

 are bigger, but in moft things fo like the 

 Swedtjb ones, that many people wouid take 

 them to be mere varieties. The Engli/h 

 call them Cranberries^ the Swedes 'Tranbcer, 

 and the French in Canada Atopa> which is 

 a name they have borrowed from the Indi- 

 ans. They are brought to market every 

 Wednefday and Saturday at Philadelphia, late 

 in autumn. They are boiled and prepared 

 in the fame manner as we do our red whor- 

 tle-berries, or Vaccinium vitis idaa; and 

 they are made ufe of during winter, and part 

 of fummer, in tarts and other kinds of 

 paftry. But as they are very four, they re- 

 quire a deal of fugar ; but that is not very 

 dear, in a country where the fugar-planta- 

 tions are not far off. Quantities of thefe 

 berries are fent over, preferved, to Europe, 

 and to the Weft Indies. 



March the 2d. Mytilus anatinus, a kind 

 of mufcle-mells, was found abundantly in 

 little furrows, which crofled the meadows. 

 The {hells were frequently covered on the 

 outfide, with a thin cruft of particles of 

 iron, when the water in the furrows came 

 from an iron mine. The EngUjhinen and 



Swedes 



