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The fpecies of wood here are not very various : 
excepting a few fhrubs, which have as yet received 
no name from the Europeans, the principal produce of 
the country is the different forts of spruce and pine. 
Of thofe, even in the more fouthern parts, there is 
not abundance; as you advance northwards, they 
gradually diminifh, and by the time you arrive at 
the fixtieth degree of latitude, the eye is not de- 
lighted with any fort of herbage. Here the wretched 
refidents build their miferable habitations with the 
bones of whales. If ever they cheer their aching 
limbs with fire, they gather a few flicks from the 
fea-fhore, which probably have been wafted from 
Norway, or from lapeand. Here a vaft quantity 
of fnow remains upon the land throughout the year. 
Although the winter here is fo excefiively rigid, 
in fummer the heat is fometimes difagreeable, and 
in that feafon the weather is very moderate, and re- 
markably ferene. It is but feldom foggy, fpeaking 
comparatively between thisand Newfoundland; nor 
are you fo frequently liable to thofe deftrudtive gales 
of wind, which vifit many other parts of the globe. 
It is, in general, high land, and fometimes you 
meet with mountains of an aftonifhing height ; you 
are alfo frequently prefented with profpe&s that are 
really awful, and extremely romantic. 
There is no great variety of animals in this rocky 
country, nor are they at all numerous. Here are 
the rein-deer ; the females have horns, which na- 
ture has given them to procure food, for with thefe 
they beat away the fnow in winter, and, by that 
means, come at the tops of trees, which, during 
the inclemency of that feafon, is their only fuftenance. 
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