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Canada* and which I have partly defcribed* 

 1 pafs over as I have done1}efore> that I 

 tnay not tire the patience of my readers by 

 a tedious enumeration. If I (hould crowd 

 my journal with my daily botanical obfer- 

 vations, and defcriptions of animals, birds* 

 infefts, ores, and the like curiofities, it 

 would be fwelled to fix or ten times its 

 prefent fizc *. I therefore fpare all thefe 

 things, confifting chiefly of dry defcrip- 

 tions of natural curiofities, for a Flora Ca~ 

 nadenjis, and other fuch like things. The 

 fame I muft fay in regard to the obferva- 

 tions I have made in phyfic. I have care* 

 fully collected all I could on this journey, 

 concerning the medicinal ufe of the Ame^ 

 rican plants* and the fimples, fome of 

 which they reckon infallible -(*, in morb 

 than one place. But phyfic not being my 

 principal ftudy (though from my youth I 

 always was fond of it) I may probably 

 have omitted remarkable circumftances in 

 my accounts of medicines and fimples* 

 though one cannot be too accurate in fuch 

 cafes. The phyiicians would therefore reap 

 little or no benefit from fuch remarks, or 



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* What bookfeller in Sweden could undertake to print 

 fuch a work at his own expence, without lofing confider* 

 ably by it ? 



% Remedes Souverains* 



