and fruit; luoinitain asli and elder, with red, clustered 

 berries ; vil)uniunis that would grace tlie finest pleasure 

 ground ; dogwoods of northern species ; sumach, beauti- 

 ful at every leafy season ; blueberries in the open, rocky 

 places ; wild roses by the streams and roadsides ; black- 

 berries with splendid flowering stems ; witch hazel with 

 its strange autumnal bloom ; rhodora, spreading out great 

 sheets of pink in spring upon the peaty marshlands, min- 

 gled with the fragrant labrador tea; brilliant-berried 

 ilexes, sold in the cities at Christmas time for holly; and 

 a host of others. 



No inch of ground, in sun or shade, is left nnoccn- 

 l)ied. Tlie very rocks are lichen-clad and ferns mat over 

 them in shady places. Trilliums and wild orchids bloom 

 in the forest depths, with white-flowered hobble-bnshes; 

 clintonias and the fragrant northern twin-flower that 

 [jinnaeus loved extend themselves as in wild garden beds 

 upon the woodland floor. 



Everywhere tliere is life, spreading mats of crowberry 

 and the beautiful coast juniper where they are deluged 

 by the ocean spray in winter storms ; clothing wind-swept 

 granite heights, wherever there is crack or cranny soil 

 can gather in, with partridge-berry, blueberry, and 

 mountain cranberry; penetrating the forest shade and 

 profiting by the dense northern covering of leafy humus 

 that it fiuds there; and rich, wherever nature has not 

 ])een disturbed, in infinite variety — of mosses, fungus 

 growths and ferns as well as flowering plants. Few 

 foi-ests in the worhl, indeed, outside the rainy tropics, 

 ch)the themselves with sucli al)uudnut lil'e, and there are 

 noue that bi'ing one more directly into touch with natui'e, 

 its wildness and its charm. 



••Wliilst ICC folloirt'd on our coarse, there came from the land odors 

 imoiiilHtrdhle for sweetness, brought u-ith a icorm. u-ind so ahundanthi 

 that (ill the Orient parts could not produce the like. We did stretdi nut 

 our hands, as it ivcre. to take them, so palpable Kcrc tlicji. irlii<Ii I 

 have admired a thousand time since." 



Marc Lescakrot. 1609. 



Purchas translation. 



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