210 September 1749. 



About noon we arrived at Cap aux 

 Oyes, or Gee/e Cape, which has probably- 

 got its name from the number of wild 

 geQ(Q which the French found near it, on 

 their firft arrival in Ca?iada. At prefent, 

 we faw neither gttk, nor any kind of birds 

 here, a fingle raven excepted. Here we 

 were to examine the renowned metallic 

 veins in the mountain ; but found nothing 

 more than fmall veins of a fine white fpar, 

 containing a few fpecks of lead ore. Cap 

 mix Oyes is computed twenty- two, or 

 twenty-five French miles diftant from ^e- 

 bec. I was moft pleafed by finding, that 

 mofl of the plants are the fame as grow in 

 Sweden ; a proof of which I lliall produce 

 in the fequel. 



The fand-reed * grows in abundance in 

 the fand, and prevents its being blown a- 

 bout by the wind. 



The fea-lyme grafs -f likewife abounds 

 on the fliores. Both it and the preceding 

 plant are called Seigk de mer \ by the 

 French, I have been afiured that thefe 

 plants grow in great plenty in Newfound^ 

 land, and on other North- American Oiores ; 

 the places covered with them looking, at 



* Arundo arenaria Linn. 

 \ Elymus arenarius Linn, 

 X Sea-rye. 



a dif- 



