296 November 1748. 



raw. Captain Atkins got fome very fcarco 

 fkins in exchange for fome trifles. 



It is already known from feveral ac- 

 counts of voyages, that to the northward 

 neither trees nor buflies, nor any ligneous 

 plants are to be met with, fit for burning. 

 But is it not probable that the inhabitants 

 of fo defolate a country, like other northern 

 nations which we know, burn the train oil 

 of fifhes, and the fat of animals in lamps, 

 in order to boil their meat, to warm their 

 fubterraneous caves in winter, and to light 

 them in the darkeft feafon of the year? elfe 

 their darknefs would be infupportable. 



November the nth. In feveral writings 

 "we read of a large animal, which is to be 

 met with in New England and other parts 

 of North America. They fometimes dig 

 very long and branched horns out of the 

 ground in Ireland, and no body in that 

 country or any where elfe in the world, 

 knows an animal that has fuch horns. This 

 has induced many people to believe that 

 it is the Moofe-deer fo famous in North 

 America^ and that the horns found, were 

 of animals of this kind, which had former- 

 ly lived in that ifland, but were gradually 

 deftroyed. It has even been concluded, 

 that Ireland, \xi diftant ages either was con- 

 nedled with North America^ or that a num- 

 ber 



