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currants, raspberries, with a few others, and I 

 once, if not twice, saw a small gooseberry-bnsh. 

 The fruits consist of various kinds of berries, 

 viz. currants, raspberries, partridge-berries, em- 

 petrum nigrum, baked-apples, baked-pears, whor- 

 tle-berries of two sorts, cranberries,^ and a small 

 berry which grows in a gravelly or sandy soil, 

 the plant of which resembles that of the straw- 

 berry, each producing but a single fruit, which is 

 of a bright pink colour, granulated like a mul- 

 berry, and has a delicious flavour; but they are 

 scarce on those parts of the east coast which I was 

 upon, for I met with them on a few spots only in 

 the neighbourhood of Sandwich Bay, but at L'ance 

 a Loup they were more abundant ; and there also, 

 I saw tolerable plenty of scarlet strawberries ^ 

 which were the only ones I ever observed in that 

 country. 



As to plants, since I am no botanist, I shall beg 

 leave to say no more of them, than that I believe 

 there is no very great variety, and but few, if any, 

 which are not to be met with, in other northern 

 countries. 



The only vegetables which I found fit to eat, 

 were alexander (or wild celery), fathen,^ scurvy- 

 grass,'* the young leaves of the osier, and of the 

 ground- whortleberry; Indian sallad, red-docks,^ 

 and an alpine plant, which the rein-deer are very 



' Mountain cranberrj', Vaccinium Vitis-Idaea var. minus. 



^ Fragaria virginiana. 



^ Fathen, pigweed or goosefoot. Chenopndium, species? 



* Scurvy grass, a cress, Cochlearia, species? 



^ Rumex, species? 



