joi March 1749. 



write more at large about it in the fequel. 

 The Europeans are likewife ufed to colled: a 

 quantity of thefe berries, to dry them in 

 ovens, to bake them in tarts, and to em- 

 ploy them in feveral other ways. Some 

 preferve them with treacle. They are like- 

 wife eaten raw, either quite alone or with, 

 freih milk. 



I SHALL, on the 2/th of March,, findoc- 

 cafion to mention another diih, which the 

 Indians ate formerly, and ftill eat, on formal 

 ceremonies. 



March the i8th. ALMOST during the 

 whole of this fpring, the weather and the 

 winds were always calm in the morning at 

 fun-fifing. At eight o'clock the wind be- 

 gan to blow pretty hard, and continued fo 

 all day, till fun-fetting ; when it ceafed, and 

 all the night was calm. This was the re- 

 gular courfe of the weather ; but fometimes 

 the winds raged, without intermiffion, for 

 two or three days together. At noon it 

 was commonly moft violent. But in the 

 ordinary way, the wind decreafed and in- 

 creafed as follows : At fix in the morning, 

 a calm ; at feven, a very gentle weftern 

 breeze, which grew ftronger at eight; at 

 eleven it was much ftronger ; but at four in 

 the afternoon^ it is no ftronger than it was 



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