at lead they would not find them as they 

 ought to be. This will excufe me for 

 avoiding, as much as pollible, to mention 

 fuch things as belong to phyfic, and are 

 above my knowledge. Concerning the 

 Canada plants, I can here add, that the 

 further you go northward, the more you 

 find the plants are the fame with the Swe^ 

 di/hones: thus, on the north fide of ^z^^'- 

 Sec, a fourth part of the plants, if not 

 more, are the fame with the fpontaneous 

 plants in Sweden. A few plants and trees, 

 which have a particular quality, or are ap- 

 plied to fome particular ufe, fliall, how- 

 ever, be mentioned in a few words, in the 

 fequel. 



HE Rei?2-deer Mofs f Lichen ranglfc- 

 is) grows plentiful in the woods round 

 9^iebec. M. Gaulihier, and feveral other 

 gentlemen, told me, that the French, on 

 their long journies through the woods, on 

 account of their fur trade with the Indians^ 

 fometimes boil this mofs, and drink the 

 decu(!^ion, for want of better food, when 

 their proviiions are at an end ; and they 

 fay it is very nutritive. Several French- 

 men, who have been in the Terra Lahra- 

 •dor, wuere there are many rein-deer (which 

 the French and Indians here call Cariboux) 

 relatedj that all the land there is in moil 



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