35^ November 1748. 



inftead of toafted bread with butter, ortoaf^, 

 which the Englifh commonly eat at break- 

 faft. The buck-wheat cakes are very good, 

 and are likewife ufual at Philadelphia and 

 in other Englijlo colonies, efpecially in win- 

 ter. Buck- wheat is an excellent food for 

 fowls J they eat it greedily, and lay more 

 eggs, than they do with other food : hogs 

 are likewife fattened with it. Buck-wheat 

 ftraw is of no ufe ; it is therefore left upon 

 the field, in the places where it has been 

 thrafhed, or it is fcattered in the orchards, 

 in order to ferve as a manure by putrify- 

 ing. Neither cattle nor any other animal 

 will eat of it, except in the greateft ne- 

 cefTity, when the fnow covers the ground 

 and nothing elfe is to be met with. But 

 though buck-wheat is fo common in the 

 Englijlo colonies, yet the French had no 

 right notion of it in Canada, and it was 

 never cultivated among them. 



Towards night we found fome Glow 

 Worms in the wood, their body was linear, 

 confifting of eleven articulations, a little 

 .pointed before and behind ; the length from 

 head to tail was five and a half geometrical 

 lines ', the colour was brown and the arti- 

 culations joined in the fame manner as in 

 the onifci or woodlice. The antennas or 

 feel horns were fhort and filiform, or thread- 



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