September *749' 



avoine* and which grows in plenty in 

 jfheir lakes, in ftagnant waters, and fome- 

 tiip6$ in rivers which flow flowly. They 

 gather its feeds in O&ober, and prepare them 

 in different ways, and chiefly as groats, which 

 tafte almoft as well as rice. They make 

 likewife many a delicious meal of the fe- 

 veral kinds of walnuts, ohefhuts, mulber- 

 ries, acimine*) chinquapins -f-, hazel-nuts, 

 peaches, wild prunes, grapes, whortle-ber* 

 ries of feveral forts, various kinds of med- 

 lars, black-berries, and other fruit and roots. 

 But the fpecies of corn fo common in what 

 is called the old world, were entirely un- 

 known here before the arrival of the Euro- 

 peans ; nor do the Indians at preient ever 

 attempt to cultivate them, though they fee 

 the ufe which the Europeans make of the 

 culture of them, and though they are fond 

 of eating the difhes which arc prepared of 

 them. 



September the 27th. BEAVERS are abundant 

 *11 over North- America&nd they areone of the 

 chief articlesof the trade in Canada. The Indi- 

 ans live upon their fleih during a great part 

 of the year. It is certain that thefe animals 

 multiply very faft $ but it is no lefs fo> that 



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