Cap aux Oyes. 21 i 



a diftance, like corn-fields ; which might 

 explain the paflage in our northern ac- 

 counts, of the excellent <wine hind*, which 

 mentions, that they had found whole fields 

 of wheat growing wild. 



TH'E fea-fide plantain -{< is very frequent 

 on the fhore. The French boil its leaves 

 in a broth on their fea-voyages, or eat them 

 as a fallad. It may likewife be pickled like 

 famphire. 



THE bear-berries J grow in great abun- 

 dance here. The Indians, French, Eng- 

 lifhy and Dutch, in thofe parts of North- 

 America, which I have feen, call them Sa- 

 gackhomi, and mix the leaves with tobacco 

 for their ufe. 



GALE, or fweet willow , is likewife 

 abundant here. The French call it Lau- 

 rier, and fome Poivrier. They put the 

 leaves into their broth, to give it apleafant 

 tafte. 



THE fea-rocket |] is, likewife, not un- 



* Vinland dct grda^ or the good wine-land, is the name 

 which the old Scandinavian navigators gave to America, 

 which they difcovered long before Columbus. See Tcrfsei 

 flijlcfib i'inlandi<s antique f. partis America fepientrionali si 

 Hafnise 1715, 4/0. and Mr. George WeJiman>iS) A. M. 

 DiiTertation on that Subject. Abo 1747. F. 



j- Plantago maritima Linrt. 



J Arbutus u<va urfi Linn. 



Myrica gale Linn. 



jj Bunias cakile Linn. 



O 2 common* 





