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dically and perfedly cured by the Indians, 

 within five or fix months. The French have 

 not been able to find this remedy out; though 

 they know that the Indians employ no micr- 

 cury, but that their chief remedies are roots, 

 which are unknown \.o\}i\^ French. I have 

 afterwards heard what thefe plants were, 

 and given an account of them at large to 

 the royal SwediJJj academy of fciences *. 



¥/e are very well acquainted in Swc 

 den with the pain caufed by the Iceniay 

 or a kind of worms. They are lefs abun- 

 dant in the Britifi North- American colo- 

 nie-s ; but in Canada they are very frequent. 

 Sofiie of thefe worms, which have been 

 evacuated by a perfon, have been feveral 

 yards long. It is not known, whether the 

 Indians are afHidsd with them, or not. No 

 particular remedies againft them are known 

 here, and no one can give an account from 

 whence they come, though the eating of 

 fome fruits contributes, as is conjedured, 

 to create them. 



yuly the 19th. Fort St. Frederic is a 

 fortification, on the Ibuthern extremity of 

 lake Champiain, fituated on a neck of land, 

 between that lake and the river, which arifes 



from 



* See the Memoirs of that Academy, for the year 1750. 

 page 284. 



The StiUingia Sjhatica is probably one of thefe roots. F. 



