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III. Of their Manner of Life, And this is a Sub- 
jcd that 1 couid be very copious upon ; but that I 
mayn’t be tedious, what follows (hall fuffice. Theit 
Food confifts chiefly in a Sort of Fifli which they ball 
Oret^ and which anfwers to our Salmon-Trout*, (*tis a 
very delicious fat Fifli, which they catch in the Rivers 
that run thro’ the Woods) and next to that, in Bread and 
Flour of Rye^ which they fometimes get great Plenty 
of, by cutting down and burning whole Forrefts, and 
fowing the Ground with Rye, which fometimes produces 
30 or 40 Fold. But this Method of producing has been 
of late very flridly forbidden, under very fevere Penal- 
ties, by the Landlords of thofe Forrefts, by Reafon of 
the immenfe Dammage it does, by the Lofs of fo much 
Timber ; and becaufe the Fire fometimes lays waft im- 
menfe Trads of Land: So that it is with great Difli- 
culty extinguifli’d, burning whole Months together, to 
the great Detriment of Trade. 
They frequently ufe Bathing, at leaft once a Month, 
thinking thereby they prevent Sicknefs, and diflipate all 
Weaknefles from the Body : And their Method of Bathing 
feems fo very particular, as would fcarce agree with any 
other Conftitution, or meet with Approbation from Phy- 
ficians. The Method is this : In the Middle of the 
Houfe (which generally confifts of One large Room, 
built all of whole Timbers laid crofs, and notch’d'‘in 
at the Ends to let them clofe, and then caulk’d with 
Mofs, as the Seams of a Ship are with Okam) they 
build an Oven with Stone without Mortar, and without 
a Funnel *, the Smoak going out at a Hole in the Roof, 
which is left open while the Wood is burning in the Oven, 
but fliut clofe as foon as ’tis all burnt to a bright Coal, 
which keeps in all the Heat. When the Oven is thus 
B b b made 
