1 62 'duguft 1749. 



pine, called Peruffe, the mealy-tree with 

 dentated leaves *, the afli, the cherry-tree, 

 (Cerijier) juft before defcribed, and the 

 berry-bearing yew. 



THE Gnats in this wood were more 

 numerous than we could have wifhed. 

 Their bite caufed a bliftering of the {kin ; 

 and the Jefuits at Lorette faid, the beft 

 prefervative againft their attacks is to rub 

 the face, and naked parts of the body, 

 with greafe. Cold water they reckon 

 the beft remedy againft the bite, when 

 the wounded places are wafhed with it, 

 immediately after. 



AT night we returned to Lorette, hav- 

 ing accurately examined the plants of note 

 we met with to-day. 



Auguft the i4th. Lorette is a village, 

 three French miles to the weftward of Que- 

 bec. Inhabited chiefly by Indians of the 

 Huron nation, converted to the Roman 

 catholic religion. The village lies near a 

 little river, which falls over a rock there, 

 with a great noife, and turns a faw-miH, 

 and a flour-mill. When the Jefuit, who 

 is now with them, arrived among them, 

 they lived in their ufual huts, which are 

 made like thofe of the Laplanders. They 



* Viburnum dent at urn, Lion. 



have 



