S 'July 1749. 



complained of here, that thofe who fludled 

 natural hiftory, did not fufficiently enquire 

 into the medicinal ufe of the plants of 

 Canada. 



The French^ who are born in France, 

 are faid to enjoy a better health in Canada 

 than in their native country, and to attain 

 to a greater age, than the Fre?2ch born in 

 Canada. I was likewife affured that the 

 European Frenchmen can do more work, 

 and perform more journies in winter, 

 without prejudice to their health, than 

 thofe born In this country. The inter- 

 mitting fever which attacks the Europeans 

 on their arrival in Penfyhaniay and Vv'hich 

 as it were makes the climate familiar to 

 them,* is not known here, and the people 

 are as well after their arrival as before. 

 The Englijld have frequently ohferved, that 

 thofe who are born in America of European 

 parents, can never bear fea-voyages, and go 

 to the different parts of South A}7ierica, as 

 well as thofe born in Europe. The French 

 born in Canada have the fameconftitutions; 

 and when any of them go to the Weji- 

 India iflands, fuch as Martinique, Domingo, 

 &c. and make fome ftay there, they com- 

 monly fall fick and die foon after : thofe 



* See Vol. I. p. 364. 



who 



