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brown, almofl black. He played and 

 wreftled every day with one of the dogs. 

 A vafl number of bear-fkins are annually 

 exported to France from Canada. The hi- 

 dians prepare an oil from beat's greafe, 

 with which in fummer they daub their 

 face, hands, and all naked parts of their 

 body, to fecure them from the bite of the 

 gnats. ¥/ith this oil they likewife fre- 

 quently fmear the body, when they are ex- 

 cellively cold, tired with labour, hurt, and 

 in other cafes. They believe it foftens the 

 jQcin, and makes the body pliant, and is 

 very ferviceable to old age. 



The common Dandelion [Leontodon Ta- 

 raxacum Linn.) grows in abundance on the 

 paftures and roads between the fields, and 

 was now in flower. In fpring when the 

 young leaves begin to come up, the French 

 dig up the plants, take their roots*, waih 

 them, cut them, and prepare them as a 

 common fallad ; but they have a bitter tafle. 

 It is not ufuai here to make ufe of the leaves 

 for eating. 



July the 6th. The foldiers, which had 

 been paid off after the war, had built hou- 

 fes round the fort, on the grounds allotted 



to 



* In France t\\s young hlanclied leaves, which fcarcepeep 

 out of molehills, and have yet a yellow colour, are umv?r- 

 fally eaten as a f.-.llaJ, uader the r.ame oi Pijenlit. F. 



