136 ' Jugufi 1749. 



Canada, and which I have partly defcrlbed, 

 I pafs over as I have done before, that I 

 may not tire the patience of my readers by 

 a tedious enumeration. If I fliould crowd 

 my journal with my daily botanical obfer- 

 vations, and defcriptions of animals, birds, 

 infedls, ores, and the like curiofities, it 

 would be fwelled to fix or ten times its 

 prefent fizc *. I therefore fpare all thefe 

 things, confifting chiefly of dry defcrip- 

 tions of natural curiofities, for a Flora Ca- 

 nadenfiSi and other fuch like things. The 

 fame I muft fay in regard to the obferva- 

 tions I have made in phyfic. I have care- 

 fully colleded all I could on this journey, 

 concerning the medicinal ufe of the Ame- 

 rican plants, and the firpoles, fome of 

 which they reckon infallible \, in more 

 than one place. But phyfic not being my 

 principal ftudy (though from my yo'Jth I 

 always was fond of it) I may probably 

 have omitted remarkable circumflances in 

 my accounts of medicines and fimples, 

 though one cannot be too accurate in lach 

 cafes. The phyficians w^ould therefore leap 

 little er no benefit from fuch remarks, or 



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* What bookfeller io Sijjcden couid undertake to print 

 fuch a work at his own expence, without lofmg ccnfjder- 

 ably by it ? 



-j- Remedes Souveraitis, 



