tg6 September 1749. 



folk avoiney and which grows in plenty irt 

 their lakes, in ftagnant waters, and fome- 

 times in rivers which flow flowly. They 

 gather its feeds in OBober, and prepare them 

 in different ways, and chiefly as groats, which 

 tafl:e almoft as well as rice. They make 

 likewife many a delicious meal of the fe* 

 vera! kinds of walnuts, chefnuts, mulber- 

 ries, acimifie^, chinquapins -f-, hazel-nuts, 

 peaches, wild prunes, grapes, whortle-ber* 

 ties of feveral forts, various kinds of med- 

 lars, black-berries, and other fruit and roots. 

 But the fpecies of corn fo common in what 

 is called the old world, were entirely un- 

 known here before the arrival of the Euro- 

 feans ; nor do the Indians at prefent ever 

 •attempt to cultivate them, though they fee 

 the ufe which the Europeans make of the 

 culture of them, and though they are fond 

 of eating the di(hes which are prepared of 

 them. 



September thtiyth. BEAVERsareabundant 

 all over North- AmericayZnd they areoneof the 

 chiefarticlesofthetradeinC^^;z<^d^^. TheJW/- 

 ans live upon their flefh during a great part 

 of the year. It is certain that thefe animals 

 multiply very faft 5 but it is no lefs fo, that 



* Anvona muy'tcaia^ Linn. 

 f Fagus tumila, Linn. 



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