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would be well paid, fince wax candles are 

 made ufe of in the Roman Catholick 

 churches; but the clergy would not take 

 them. An old Swede mentioned that the 

 root of the candleberry tree was formerly 

 made ufe of by the Indians, as a remedy 

 againft the tooth ach, and that he himfelf 

 having had the tooth ach very violently, 

 had cut the root in pieces and applied it 

 round his tooth; and that the pain had 

 been leffened by it. Another «S'Z£;^^<? affu- 

 red me that he had been cured of the 

 tooth ach, by applying the peel of the root 

 to it. In Carolina, they not only make 

 candles out of the wax of the berries, but 

 likewife fealing-wax. 



October the 14th. Penny Royal is a" 

 plant which has a peculiar ftrong fcent, 

 and grows abundantly on dry places in the 

 country. Botanifts call it Ciinila pulegioides. 

 It is reckoned very wholefome to drink 

 as a tea when a perfon has got cold, as it 

 promotes perfpiration. I was likewife told, 

 that on feeling a pain in any limb, this 

 plant, if applied to it, would give imme- 

 diate relief. 



The goods which are fhipped to London 

 from New England are the following : all 

 forts of fifli caught near Newfoundland and 

 elfewhere ; train-oil of feveral forts ; whale- 

 bone > tar, pitch, mafls> new ihips, of which 



a great 



