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large Buck. The Trurti of this Story I no further 
affcrt, than that I was told it by a Perfon of feeming 
Serioufnefs, who had no Inducement to tell a Lye, 
or impofe upon me : 'But I have often taken Notice, 
that the Indians fmell generally ftrong of this Herb. 
And I have fince learned from others, that the In- 
dians call it the Hunting-root^ which makes me 
more inclinable to give Credence to this Story. An- 
other Gentleman, a white Native of that Country, 
when I once pulled a Piece of the Root out of my 
Pocket to bite thereof, (for I frequently carried fome 
of it about me) asked me, If I loved Fifhing ? I re- 
quired, Wherefore he asked me that Queftion ? Bc- 
caufe, faid he, you have gotten fome of the Fijhing- 
root. Tht Fifhing-root ! replied Ij pray why do you 
give it that Name ? Becaufe, faid he, when we were 
Boys, we ufed to get fome of it to lay with our Baits 
to invite the Fifii to bite. This I can fay of my own 
Knowledge, that having one Day got fome Quantity 
of the Root, and likewife of the Branches, to diftil, 
the hrong Scent, as I went home, palpably put me 
into a breathing Sweat. In the Night I was waked 
by a Rat, which ran over my Face, whereas I never 
at any other time had the like happen to me; but 
will not be pofttive to conclude, that this Root was 
the Caufe thereof, only the precedent Relations made 
me refled thereon. There is another Root of the 
Species of Hyacinths, the Leaves whereof are grafs- 
like, but fmooth and ftiff, of a willow-green Co- 
lour, and fpread like a Star upon the Ground ; from 
the Middle fhoots a tall long rufh-like Stem, without 
Leaves, near two Feet high; on one Side grow little 
white Bell-flowers one above another : The Root is* 
black. 
