of Falkland’s Iflands. ioq 
on the back like a partridge; the yellow bread;; the 
white throat ; the quaker, from its plumage being of the 
.colour thofe people wear; the fparrow; tom-tit; linnets, 
and a bird like a goldfinch. Hawks are numerous ; the 
eagle, the gofhhawk, the fparrow and the common 
hawk. Of every kind our crew ate, and found them 
very good and nourifliing ; owls there are not numerous. 
Over the leveral illands is a furprizing fpecies of ve- 
getation, which I know not what to call. It refembles, 
at fil'd view', our molehills in the mardiy grounds in 
England. It is circular; fometimes fix feet round, fome- 
times lefs. From the furface oozes out a gum in round 
blebs, of the fmell and tade of balfam capavia . The 
body of thefe hills is formed within by a number of fmall 
fubdances, like the cones of pines. The outfide is cruded 
over with dark green fmall leaves, running into each 
other, and cemented as if with glue. I opened feveral, 
and found that no vermin formed them; but there ac- 
tually was a kind of vegetation ; and yet the wild cran- 
berries vegetate on them when the feed is lodged on 
them. The balfam I brought to England, and it is now 
on trial by an eminent furgeon. 
Fern abounds, but is of a weaker fort than ours in 
Europe. We tried the furze-feed, and it came up; but 
fo w eak and poor that it would never increafe or thrive. 
We found the feafon for lowing all kinds of garden feeds 
was about three w'eeks later than directed in the fpring 
or fall by miller, remembering to reverie his months, 
calling September, March, Sec . ; but all kind of culinary 
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