Maple. 



when, he says, It would afford a profitable product in its 

 "sprouts,'* The translator of Michaux was a son of an 

 American senator, and I have not Michaux in French, at 

 hand. Mr. James Hillhouse (the translator), who dedicates 

 the translation to his father, whom 1 had personally the 

 honour to know, as the most long-winded and pointless 

 speech-maker that I ever happened to hear of, save and 

 except our own Mr. Brougham. This Mr. James Hill- 

 HousB, the translator, little imagined that he would make 

 the mouths of our Cockneys water, when he was talking 

 of whole coppices of ^'sprouts," which, to a certainty, 

 they would interpret into those delightful things, which, 

 under the names given to the shoots that come from the 

 stumps of plants of the Bressica kind, and which are 

 always at hand in every season of the year, cause such 

 abundant employment and custom to the apothecaries and 

 druggists and the vinegar and pepper merchants of every 

 part of this wonderfully populous kingdom. 



413. The seventh and last sort, is the Mountain Maple, 

 which I have seen a great many times in America, but 

 never saw it of a height above eight or ten feet. It ap- 

 pears to have no properties that render it valuable ; but it 

 is a very pretty shrub, and I could not refrain from men- 

 tioning it on this occasion, in order to include all the Ame- 

 rican Maples. 



