32 July 1749. 



THE mountains near the (hore are amaz- 

 ingly high and large, confiding of a corn- 

 pad: grey rock-ftone, which does not ly in 

 ftrata as the lime-ftone, and the chief of 

 whofe conftituent parts are a grey quartz, 

 and a dark glimmer. This rock-ftone reach- 

 ed down to the water, in places where the 

 mountains ftood clofe to the fhore ; but 

 where they were at fome diftance from it, 

 they were fupplied by ftrata of grey 

 and black lime-done, which reached to the 

 water fide, and which 1 never have feen 

 covered with the grey rocks. 



THE Zizania aquatica- grows in mud, 

 and in the moft rapid parts of brooks, and 

 is in full bloom about this time. 



July the i yth. THE diftempers which 

 rage among the Indians are rheumatifms and 

 pleurifies, which arife from their being 

 obliged frequently to ly in moid parts of 

 the woods at night ; from the fudden 

 changes of heat and cold, to which the air 

 is expofed here ; and from their being fre- 

 quently loaded with too great a quantity 

 of ftrong liquor, in which cafe they com- 

 monly ly down naked in the open air, 

 without any regard to the feafon, or the 

 weather. Thefe diftempers, efpecially the 

 pleurifies, are likewife very common among 

 the French here; and the. governor told me 



'he 



