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14. This day I visited Capt "Webster, he lives 

 about 3. m. south of the hollow : I found him to 

 be a plain friendly man, he was to bussy occu- 

 pied in his work else he would, as he said, take 

 a walk with me through the woods : but if I 

 would come & see him again, he would go with 

 me to the Indian village which I was anxious to 

 see : I enquired about the Indian dog : but he 

 told me that not one genuine one was to be found 

 among those Indians any more, having degene- 

 rated by mixing with others to such a degree 

 that hardyly the traces could be seen in them . 

 The Hydrastis canadensis grows in great abun- 

 dance in the woods here, they call it Curcume: 

 Sanicula Marylandica,-Geum flore albo. — Polym- 

 nia canadensis— Elymus canadensis— Poten- 

 tilla Norwegica — A sclepias tuberosa — Galium 

 circaezans &c were in flower : — The Caulophyl- 

 lum thalictroides grows in abundance in these 

 woods, it is called here Cohosh. Capt. Webster 

 informed me, that there was one sort of Cohosh 

 growing here with red berries, which I suppose 

 to be the Actea spicata : I dit not see any : The 

 Botrypus virginicus, which is plenty here is used 

 by the Indians as a principal remedy in the ve- 

 nereal disease. On my return to the hollow I 

 observed Cornus alternifolia, which is calld 

 Green Osier, the other species of Cornus whose 

 branches are always speckled, & which 1 suppose 

 to be the sort with white berries grows plenty in 

 the woods hereabouts. 



15. — As I had to get my boots mented I kept 

 the house all day & wrote a letter to Dr B having 



