2 1 S September 1 74 '9 . 



blend *. Now and then, and but very feU 

 donrs, there is a grain of lead-ore. The 

 mountains near the (hore confift fometimes 

 of a black fine-grained horn-ftone, and a 

 ferruginous lime-fione. The horn -ftone in 

 that cafe is always in three or four times as 

 great a quantity as the lime-done. 



In this neighbourhood there is likewife 

 afulphureous fpring, having exadly the fame 

 qualities as that which 1 have before de- 

 Icribed. The broad-leaved Reed Mace-f 

 grows in the very fpring, and fucceeds ex- 

 tremely well. A mountain-aOi ftood near 

 it, whofe berries were of a pale yellow 

 fading colour, whereas on all other moun- 

 tain-aflies they have a deep red colour. 



They make great quantities of tar at 

 bay St, Paid. We now pailed near a place 

 in which they burn tar, during fummer. 

 It is exadly the fame with ours in Eaji^ 

 Bothnia, only fomewhat lefs -, though I 

 have been told, that there are fometimes 

 very great manufactures of it here. The 

 tar is made folely of the Pin rougel^, or 

 red Pine. All other firs, of which here 

 are feveral kinds, are not fit for this pur- 



pofe, 



* FcrJIer^s Introd. to Mineralogy, p. 50. Zincum fieri- 

 hm, Linn. Sylh Nat. III. p. 126. Ed. XII. 



t Typha latifoLa, Linn. 



X Pinus foliis geminis iongis ; ramis triplici fafcicul© 

 foliorum terminatis, conis ovatis lasvibus. Flbr. Canad, 



