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For bearing of corn ; they are generally a mixture 

 of gravel, land, and clay. 



There are four forts of fir-trees in Canada ; the 

 firft refembles ours the three others are the Epinette 

 Blanche, and Epinette Rouge, or the White and Red 

 Prickly firs, and that called la Perujfe. The fe- 

 cond and fourth forts rife to a vaft height, and are 

 excellent for mails, efpecially the white prickly fort, 

 which are alfo extremely fit for carpenter's work. 

 This grows generally in moift, and black lands, but 

 which after being drained, are fit for bearing all 

 forts of grain. Its bark is fmooth and mining, 

 and there grows on it a kind of fmall blifters of 

 the fize of kidney-beans, which contain a kind of 

 turpentine, which is fovereign in wounds, which 

 it cures fpeedily, and even in fractures. We are 

 affured that it cures fevers, and pains in the breaft 

 and ftomach the way to ufe it is to put two drops 

 of it in fome broth. This is what is called in Paris 

 White Ba'fam. 



The epinette rouge has fcarce any refemblance 

 to the epinette blanche. Its wood is heavy, and 

 may be of good ufe in fhip building, and in car- 

 penter's work. The lands where it grows are a 

 mixture of gravel and clay. The peruffe is gummy, 

 but yields not a quantity fufficient to be made ufe 

 of \ its wood remains long in the ground without 

 rotting, which renders it extremely fit for paling or 

 inclofures. The bark is excellent for tanners, and 

 the Indians make a dye of it, refembling that of a 

 turky-blue. Mod of the lands where this tree 

 grows are clayey \ I have, however, feen fome very 

 thick ones in fandy- grounds, though perhaps there 

 yvas clay under the land, 



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