September 1749. 



klUaluck ; heaven, taktuck* or nabugakfhe $ 

 the fvtijfoitdmdkt or fakaknuk ; the moon, 

 takock ; an egg, manneguk ; the boat, &?- 

 gack\ the oar, pacotick ; the knife, fhavie ; 

 a dog, mekke, or timilok ; the bow, petik- 

 Jick ; an arrow, &?//& ; the head, niakock $ 

 the ear, fcA/ j the eye, >J/7//>f , or yZ?/^ ; the 

 hair, nutjhad ; a tooth, ^^ ; the foot, 

 itikat. Some think that they are nearly 

 the fame nation with the Greenlanders, or 

 Skralingers -, and pretend that there is a 

 great arrinity in the language *. 



PLUMB-TREES of different forts, brought 

 over from France, fucceed very well here. 

 The prefent year they did not begin to 

 flower till this month. Some of them 

 looked very well ; and I am told the win- 

 ter docs not hurt them. 



September the i nh. THE marquis de 

 la Galiffonniere is one of the three noble- 

 men, who, above all others, have gained 

 high efteern with the French admiralty in 

 the laft war. They are the marquiffes de 

 la GaliffonnierC) de la Jonquiere, and de /'- 



* The above account of the Efyuimanx raay becompared 

 with Henry Ellis' s dec unt cf a Ftyege to Hudfutts Bay, by 

 tb? Dobin Ga ley and California, &c. and "The Account cf u 

 Pay age Jor the Dr/covery of a North Weft Pajjage by Htidjon*' 

 Str-.igbts 9 by the Clerk of the California. < T i wo Pols. Svo. 

 And iafily, with Grants? s Hifiory of Greenland* Two A//. 

 8vo. F. ' 



