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that are not very wet ; and the wood-for- 

 rel *, with the Mountain Enchanter s Night" 

 Jhade^, are its companions. Its feeds were 

 not yet ripe, and moft of the ftalks had 

 no feeds at all. This plant is called Tff- 

 favoyanne jaune by the French, all over Ca- 

 nada. Its leaves and ftalks are ufed by 

 the Indians, for giving a fine yellow colour 

 to feveral kinds of work, which they make 

 of prepared fkins. The French, who have 

 learnt this from them, dye wool and other 

 things yellow with this plant. 



WE climbed with a great deal of diffi-' 

 culty to the top of one of the higheft 

 mountains here, and I was vexed to find 

 nothing at its fummit, but what I had 

 feen in other parts of Canada before. We 

 had not even the pleafure of a profpeft, 

 becaufe the trees, with which the moun- 

 tain is covered, obftru&ed it. The trees 

 that grow here are a kind of hornbeam, 

 or Carpinus OJirya, Linn, the American 

 elm, the red maple, the fugar-maple, that 

 kind of maple which cures fcorched 

 wounds (which I have not yep defcribed), 

 the beech, the common birch-tree, the 

 fugar-birch J, the forb-tree, the Canada 



* Oxalis Acetofdlci) Linn. 

 J- Circ&a alpi/ta, Linn. 

 J Betula nigra t Linn. 



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