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and I cannot diffidently defcribe the fine 

 tafte it has in fuch circumftances. It re- 

 lieves a weary traveller more than can be 

 imagined, as I have myfelf experienced, to- 

 gether with a great many others who have 

 travelled through the defart forefts of Ame- 

 rica ; on fuch journeys, tea is found to be 

 almoft as neceffary as victuals w . 



June the joth. THIS morning we left 

 our boat to the Frenchmen* who made ufe 

 of it to carry their provifions ; for we could 

 not make any further ufe of it, on account 

 of the number of trees which the French 

 had -thrown acrofs the river during the laft 

 war, to prevent the attacks of the Englifo 

 upon Canada. The Frenchmen gave us 

 leave to make ufe of one of their boats, 

 which they had .left behind them, about fix 

 miles from the place where we pafied the 

 laft night. Thus we continued our journey 

 on foot, along the river ; and found the 

 country flat, with fome little vales here and 

 there. It W 7 as every where covered with 

 tall trees, of the deciduous kind -, among 

 which the beech, the elm, the American 

 lime-tree, and the fugar-maple, were the 



moil 



* On my travels through the 'defart plains, beyond the 

 river Volga ^ I have had fcveral opportunities of making 

 the fame obiervations on Tea ; and every traveller, in the 

 fame circumftances, will readily allow them to be very 

 juil. F. 



