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rican trees, the quality of growing plentiful 

 in marlhes and thick woods, which may be 

 with certainty called its native places. How- 

 ever, there is fcarce a (ingle Thuya tree in 

 thofe places which bears feeds j if, on the 

 other hand, a tree accidentally ftands on the 

 outfide of a wood, on the fea fliore, or in a 

 field, where the air can freely come at it, it 

 is always full of feeds. I have found this to 

 be the cafe with the Thuya, on innumerable 

 ■occadons. It is the fame likewife with the 

 fugar- maple, the maple which is good for 

 healing fcorched wounds, the white fir-tree, 

 the pine called Penijfe, the mulberry- tree 

 and feveral others. 



Auguji thit 17th. This day I went to 

 fee the nunnery of the UrJulineSy which is 

 difpofed nearly in the fame way as the two 

 other nunneries. It lies in the town and 

 has a very fine church. The nuns are re- 

 nowned for their piety, and they go lefs 

 abroad than any others. The men are like- 

 wife not allowed to go into this monafterj, 

 but by the fpecial licence of the bifhop, 

 which is given as a great favour j the royal 

 phyiician, and the furgeon are alone entitled 

 to go in as often as they pleafe, to vifit the 

 fick. At the deiire of the marquis de la 

 GaUjJomiiere the bifliop granted me leave to 

 vifit this monaftery together with the royal 



phylician 



