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will do very well without hay the whole winter throragh 5 

 great forefls I found none, but fmaller woods in abun- 

 dance. The vegetables and plants they moftly culti- 

 vate for food, are roots, and namely, farana *, biftort, 

 the root of yellow fern ~}~, and kutagar, which laft de- 

 ferves particular obfervation on account of this circum- 

 itance, that where, there are no mice, as here on thefe 

 iflands, it has a very agreeable tafle, whereas, where 

 thefe animals are founds it is fo bitter that no man cart 

 eat it. Of berries I found there the rafberry the bil- 

 berry §, and the blackberry ||. Morafs-berries, or ma~ 

 rofhka^]", broflhika**, fchlingberries -f*^, cranberries, 

 arklukva^, and knefhenika in abundance. Of 

 larger trees, on one half of the ifland Kuktak, and far- 

 ther eafhvard to America, are, as far as I could reckon* 

 five" forts, namely : alder, bufchwerk, birch, and a 

 kind of afh ; and farther to the eatr. on the iflands and 

 bays of America, beHdes thofe already mentioned, are 

 pine-forefts and larch trees. Of the feathered animals 

 1 found feveral kinds of geefe and ducks, crows, jays, 

 daws, black canary-birds, there called napoiki, and 



* Lilkina rnartagon feu pomponium. According to the^pla© 

 ©f natural hi ft. for the normal fchools of Ruilia, p. 178, there 

 are two kinds of them, one with dull red y and the other with high 

 red flowers, the leaves of the latter are crumpled backwards at 

 the point, in the former the leaves are thicker, and in the other 

 *nore divided and fmaller below. 



f Filices, ib. p. 235. J Rubus idceus, ibid. 



§ Vaccininm uliginofum*. \\ Vaccinium myrtillus. 



ff Rubus chamsemorus. ** Vaccinium vitis idssa. 



f f Viburnum opulus. J J Vacciniura oxycoccus. 



Rubus ar&icus, 



magpies. 



