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A fpecies of gentian. 



WILD vines arc abuadant in the woods 

 hereabouts, climbing up very high trees. 



I HAVE made enquiry among the Frencfi 9 

 who travel far into the country, concern- 

 ning the food of the Indians. Thofe who 

 live far north, I am told, cannot plant any 

 thing, on account of the great degree of 

 cold. They have, therefore, no bread, and 

 do not live on vegetables; flefh and fifli is 

 their only food, and chiefly .the flefh of bea- 

 vers, bears, rein-deer, elks, hares, and feve- 

 ral kinds of birds. Thofe Indians who live 

 far fouthward, eat the following things. Of 

 vegetables they plant maize, wild kidney 

 beans * of feveral kinds, pumpions of diffe- 

 rent forts, fqwjhes> a kind of gourds, water- 

 melons and melons f . All thefe plants have 

 been cultivated by the Indians, long before 

 the arrival of the Europeans. They like- 

 wife eat various fruits which grow in their 

 woods. Fifti and flefti make a very great 

 part of their food. Aqd they chiefly like 

 the flefti of wild cattle, roe-rbucks, Hags, 

 bears, beavers, and focpe other quadrupeds. 

 Among their dainty diflies, they reckon the 

 ipater-taregrzfs J, which the French call 



f Cucumts *ulo t Linn. 

 | Zizaniaaquatica, Linn. 



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