May 1749. 



where they ftruck roots, and fucceeded very 

 WelL I have feen them myfelf. 



THE red juniper-tree is another tree 

 which I have mentioned very frequently in 

 the courfe of my account. The Swedes 

 have given it the name of red Juniper, be- 

 caufe the wood is very red and fine within. 

 The Englifh call it red Cedar, and the 

 French Cedre rouge. However, the SweJi/b 

 name is the moft proper, as the tree be- 

 longs, to the Junipers*. At its firft 

 growth it has a deal of fimilarity to the 

 S<wedifh Juniper-^, but after it is grown 

 up it gets quite different leaves. The ber- 

 ry exactly refembles that of the Swedijh 

 Juniper, in regard to its colour and fhape j 

 however, they are not fo big, though the 

 red Cedar grows very tall. At Raccoon 

 thefe trees flood iingle, and were not very 

 tall. But at other places I have feen them 

 ftanding together in cluflers; they like 

 the fame ground as the common Swedijh 

 Juniper, efpecially on the rifing banks of 

 rivers, and on other rifing grounds, in a 

 dry, and frequently in a poor foil. I have 

 feen them growing in abundance, as thick 

 and tall as the tailed fir-trees, on poor dry 

 and fandy heaths. Towards Canada, or in 



the 



* Juniper us yirginiana. Linn. Spec. pi. /. 114., 

 t J*niperut communis. Linn, Spec. //, /. 1470. 



