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annuls) ; and two fpecies of the white-thorn, one bearing a 
red, the other a black berry. 
Of the fhrub kind, as junipers, the mountain-afh, wild 
rofe-trees, and rafberry-bufhes, the country produces great 
abundance; together with a variety of berries; blue-berries 
of two forts, round and oval; partridge-berries; cran-berries; 
crow-berries, and black-berries. Thefe the natives gather 
at proper feafons, and preferve, by boiling them into a thick 
jam, without fugar. They make no inconliderable part of 
their winter proviiions, and are ufed as fauce to their dried 
and fait fhh; of which kind of food they are unqueftion- 
ably excellent correctives. They likewife eat them by them- 
felves, in puddings, and various other ways, and make de- 
coCtions of them for their ordinary liquor. 
We met with feveral wholefome vegetables in a wild hate, 
and in great quantities, fuch as wild celery, angelica , cher¬ 
vil, garlic, and onions. Upon fome few patches of ground 
in the vallies, we found excellent turnips, and turnip- 
radilhes. Their garden cultivation went no farther; yet 
from hence I am led to conclude, that many of the hardy 
forts of vegetables (fuch at lead: as pufh their roots down¬ 
ward), like carrots, parfnips, and beet, and perhaps pota¬ 
toes, would thrive tolerably well. Major Behm told me, 
that fome other forts of kitchen vegetables had been tried, 
but did not anfwer; that neither any of the cabbage or 
lettuce kind would ever head; and that peafe and beans fhot 
up very vigorous ftalks, flowered and podded, but the pods 
never filled. He likewife told me, that in the experiments 
made by himfelf at Bolcheretfk, with different forts of fa¬ 
rinaceous grain, there generally came up a very high and 
ftrong blade, which eared, but that the ears never yielded 
flour. 
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