Cap mix Oye's. 21 1 



a diftance, like corn-fields ; which might 

 explain the paffage in our northern ac- 

 counts, of the excellent wine lcmd'^\ which 

 mentions, that they had found whole fields 

 of wheat growing wild. 



The fea-fide plantain y is vtry frequent 

 on the iliore. The French boil its leaves 

 in a broth on their fea-voyages, or eat them 

 as a fallad. il may likewife be pickled like 

 famphire. 



The bear-berries \ grow in great aban~ 

 dance here. The Indians^ French, Fng- 

 liJJj, and Dutch, in thofe parts of North- 

 A?nerica^ which I have feen, call them Sa^ 

 gackhomi, and mix the leaves with tobacco 

 for their ufe. 



Gale, or fv/eet willow §, is likewife 

 abundant here. The French call it Lau- 

 rier, and iovn^ Poivrier. They put the 

 leaves into their broth, to give it apleafant 

 tafie. 



The fea~rocket [j is, likevviftr, not un- 



* Vinland dtt ^rduy or the good wine-land, is the name 

 ivhich the old Scandma<vian navigators gave to America, 

 which they difcovered long before Cditmbus. See Torf^i 

 fi'Jhria Vinlandia antiques f. partis America: fepten!ricnalis> 

 Hafnis 17 1 5, \to, and Mr. Geo'ge Wejim:iniis, A. M. 

 DiiTertation on that Subjed. Abo 1747. F. 



f Plantago marititna Lmn. 



X Arbutus uva urji Linn. 



§ Myrica gale Linn. 



H Buniai cakik Linn. 



O 2 common. 



