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quently make great fires when they are 

 hunting, which fpread over the fir woods 

 when every thing is dry. 



GREAT efforts are made here for the 

 advancement of Natural Hiftory, and there 

 are few places in the world where fuch good 

 regulations are made for this ufeful purpofe, 

 all which is chiefly owing to the care and 

 zeal of a fingle perfon. From hence it 

 appears, how well a ufeful fcience is re- 

 ceived and fet off, when the leading men pf 

 a country are its patrons. The governor of 

 the fort, was pleafed to {hew me a long 

 paper, which the then governor-general of 

 Canada, the Marquis la Galiffonniere had 

 fent him. It was the fame marquis, who 

 fome years after, as a French admiral, en- 

 gaged the Englifo fleet under admiral Byng 3 

 the confequence of which was the conqueft 

 of Minorca. In this writing, a number of 

 trees and plants are mentioned, which grow 

 in Norlhr America^ and deferve to be coiled> 

 ed and cultivated on account of their ufeful 

 qualities. Some of them are defcnbed, 

 among which, is the Polygala Senega, or 

 Rattle Snake-root; and with fever al ol them 

 the places where they grow are mentioned. 

 It is further requefled that all kinds of feeds 

 and roots be gathered here ; a;id, to aliift 

 fuch an undertaking, a method of prcierv- 



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