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at leaft they would not find them as they 

 ought to be. This will excufe me for 

 avoiding, as much as poffible, to mention 

 fnch things as belong to phyfic, and are 

 above my knowledge. Concerning the 

 Canada plants, I can here add, that the 

 further you go northward, the more you 

 find the plants are the fame with the Sive- 

 di/bones: thus, on the north fide of .igue- 

 bec, a fourth part of the plants, if not 

 more, are the fame with the fpontaneous 

 plants in Sweden. A few plants and trees, 

 which have a particular quality, or are ap- 

 plied to fome particular ufe, mall, how- 

 ever, be mentioned in a few words, in the 

 fequel. 



THE Rein deer Mofs (Lichen rangife- 

 rinus) grows plentiful in the woods round 

 Quebec. M. Gaulthier, and feveral other 

 gentlemen, told me, that the French, on 

 their long journies through the woods, on 

 account of their fur trade with the Indians, 

 fometimes boil this mofs, and drink the 

 deception, for want of better food, when 

 their proviiions are at an end; and they 

 fay it is very nutritive* Several French* 

 men, who have been in the Terra Labra- 

 dor, where there are many rein-deer (which 

 the French and Indians here call Caribo&x) 

 related, that all the land there is in mod 



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