New yerfey, Rapaapo* 1 8 1 



the moft northerly places, where I have 

 feen them, they commonly choofe the fteep 

 fides of the mountains, and there they 

 grow promifcuoufly with the common 7#- 

 nifier. The moid northerly places where 

 I have found them wild in the woods, is 

 in Canada* eighteen French miles to -the 

 fouthward of the Fort Saint Jran, or S/. 

 John, in about 44 35 North Latitude. I 

 have likewife feen it growing very well in 3. 

 garden, on the ifland of Magdalene *, be- 

 longing to the then governor of Montreal^ 

 Monfieur le Baron de Longueuil. But it had 

 been got at more foutherly places, and was 

 tranfplanted here. Of all the woods in 

 this country, this is without exception the 

 moft durable, and withftands putrefaftion 

 longer than any other ; it is therefore em- 

 ployed in all fuch cafes where it is moft 

 liable to rot, efpecially for all kinds of 

 pofts which are to be put into the ground. 

 Some people fay, that if an iron be put in- 

 to the ground along with a pole of cedar, 

 the iron would be half corroded by ruft in 

 the fame time that the wood would be 

 rotten. In many places both the fences, 

 and the pofts belonging to them, are made 

 M 3 of 



* An ifland in the river St. Lawrence, clofe by the 

 town of Montreal, in Ctnada. 



