$94 September 1749. 



THIEY boil a good deal of fugar in Cana- 

 da of the juice running out of the incifions 

 in the fugar-maple, the red maple, and the 

 fugar-hirch ; but that of the firft tree is 

 moft commonly made ufe of. The way 

 pf preparing it has been more minutely de- 

 fcribed by me, in the Memoirs of the Royal 

 Swedifh Academy of Sciences *. 



September the 26th. EARLY tjiis mor- 

 ning" I returned to Montreal. Every thing 

 began novy to look like autumn. The leaves of 

 the trees were pale or reddifti, and moft of 

 the plants had loft their flowers. Thofc 

 which ftill preferved them were the follow* 

 ing f : 



Several forts of Afters, both blue and 

 white. 



Golden rods of various kinds. 

 Common milfoil. 

 Common felf-heal. 



The crifped thiftle. 

 The biennial oenothera. 

 The rough-leaved fun-flower, with tri* 

 foliated leaves. 

 The Canada violet. 



* See the Volume for the year 175 1, p. 143, fcfr.' 



t Afttres. Solidagines. dcbillea mlllefolium. Prunella 



wulgaris. Carduus crifpus* Oenothera biennis* itudbeckia 



trikba* Viola Canader fa. Gentiana Saj>o 



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