Fort St. Frederic. 2g 



fugar. The pods of this plant when ripe 

 contain a kind of wool, which enclofes 

 the feed, and refembles cotton, from whence 

 the plant has got its French name. The 

 poor colled: it, and fill their beds, efpecially 

 their children's, with it inftead of feathers. 

 This plant flowers in Canada at the end of 

 yime and beginning of July, and the feeds 

 are ripe in the middle of September. The 

 horfes never eat of this plant. 



yidy the i6th. This morning I crolTed 

 lake Champlain to the high mountain on 

 its weflern fide, in order to examine the 

 plants and other curiofities there. From 

 the top of the rocks, at a little diftance 

 from fort St. Frederic, a row of very high 

 mountains appear on the weftern fhore of 

 lake Champlain, extending from fouth to 

 north ; and on the eafiern fide of this lake 

 is another chain of high mountains, running 

 in the fame diredion. Thofe on the eaftern 

 fide are not clofe to the lake, being about 

 ten or twelve miles from it ; and the coun- 

 try between it and them is low and flat, 

 and covered with woods, which likewife 

 clothe the mountains, except in fuch places, 

 as the fires, which deflroy the forefls here, 

 have reached them and burnt them down. 

 Thefe mountains have generally fteep fides, 

 but fometimcs they ar? found gradually 



Hoping, 



