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agreeable and falubrious fruits, fponta- 

 neoufly growing in the uncultivated 

 woods, and which compofe a con fide ra- 

 ble part of the food of its aboriginal 

 inhabitants ; but the limits I have pro- 

 pofed to myfelf, will not permit me to 

 enter into a particular defcription of 

 them. — From the interior parts of the 

 country is brought by the Indians a very 

 agreeable Perfume, which is contained 

 in the buds of a fin all tree. Thefe 

 buds are of a conic form, about fix lines 

 in length, and of a reddilh brown co- 

 lour, affording a very agreeable fra- 

 grance, and are here ufually carried in 

 fnuff- boxes, for the fake of perfuming 

 the fnuff, and are hence called, by the 

 white inhabitants, the Snuff Perfume. 



The Samec Tree is between twenty 

 and thirty feet in height, cloathed in a 

 bark of an alh colour, with leaves of a 

 narrow pointed form, The internal 



fob- 



