Quebec. 1 1 9 



flead of tea, in confumptions, coughs, and 

 all kinds of pectoral difeafes. This they 

 have learnt from the Indians, who have 

 made ufe of this- plant for thefe purpofes 

 lince times immemorial. This American 

 maiden-hairis reckoned preferable in furgery 

 to that which we have in Europe^ ; and 

 therefore they fend a great quantity of it to 

 France, every year. The price is different, 

 and regulated according to the goodnefs of 

 the plant, the care in preparing it, and the 

 quantity which is to be got. For if it be 

 brought to Quebec in great abundance, the 

 price falls j and on the contrary it rifes, when 

 the quantity gathered is but fmall. Com- 

 monly the price at Quebec is between five 

 and fifteen fols a pound. The Indians went 

 into the woods about this time, and travelled 

 far above Montreal in queft of this plant. 



THE Kitchen herbs, fuccced very well here. 

 The white cabbage is very fine, but fome- 

 times fufFers greatly from worms. Onions 

 (Allium cepa) are very much in ufe here, to- 

 gether with other fpecies of leeks. Theylike- 

 wife plant feveral fpecies of gourds, melons, 

 fallads, wild fuccory or wild endive (Cichorium 

 Intybus], feveral kinds of peafe, beans, French 

 beans, carrots, and cucumbers. They have 



f Adlantum Capillus Veneris. True Maiden-hair, 



H 4 plenty 



