34 July 1749. 



dically and perfectly cured by the Indians, 

 within five or fix months. The French have 

 not been able to find this remedy out; though 

 they know that the Indians employ no mer- 

 cury, but that their chief remedies are roots, 

 which are unknown to the French. I have 

 afterwards heard what thefe plants were, 

 and given an account of them at large to 

 the royal Swedifh academy of fciences *. 



WE are very well acquainted in Swe- 

 den with the pain caufed by the T&nia, 

 or a kind of worms. They are lefs abun- 

 dant in the BritiJJj North-American colo- 

 nies ; but in Canada they are very frequent. 

 Some of thefe worms, which have been 

 evacuated by a perfon, have been feveral 

 yards long. It is not known, whether the 

 Indians are affiidted with them, or not. No 

 particular remedies againft them are known 

 here, and no one can give an account from 

 whence they come, though the eating of 

 fome fruits contributes, as is conjectured, 

 to create them. 



July the 1 9th. FORT St. Frederic is a 

 fortification, on the fouthern extremity of 

 lake Champlain, fituated on a neck of land, 

 between that lake and the river, which arifes 



from 



* SEE the Memoirs of that Academy, for the year 1750. 

 page 284. 



THE Stillingia Sylvc.tica is probably one of thefe roots. F. 



