. Travels into North America : containing its natural history, and a circumstantial account of its plantations and agriculture in general, with the civil, ecclesiastical and commercial state of the country, the manners of the inhabitants, and several curious and important remarks on various subjects. they die within a minute. March the 12th. The bird which theEnglifh and Swedes in this country callRobin- red-breajl*, is found here all the yearround. It is a very different bird from thatwhich in England bears the fame is Lmn^Kss Ttirdus migratorius. It fingsvery melodiouily, is not very
. Travels into North America : containing its natural history, and a circumstantial account of its plantations and agriculture in general, with the civil, ecclesiastical and commercial state of the country, the manners of the inhabitants, and several curious and important remarks on various subjects. they die within a minute. March the 12th. The bird which theEnglifh and Swedes in this country callRobin- red-breajl*, is found here all the yearround. It is a very different bird from thatwhich in England bears the fame is Lmn^Kss Ttirdus migratorius. It fingsvery melodiouily, is not very fhy, but hopson the ground, quite clofe to the houfes. The Hazels (Corylus avellana) werenow opening their bloflbms. They fuc-ceeded bed in a rich mould, and theSwedes reckoned it a fign of a good foilwhere they found them growing. March the 13th. The alder (BetulaAinus) was juft bloflbming. The Dracontium foetidum grew plenti-fully in the marfhes and began to the ftinking plants, this is the modfoetid; its naufeous fcent was fo ftrong,that I could hardly examine the flower; and * Of this bird we have given a figure in plate 3, wherelikewife the Mocking- birdis reprefented ; both drawn afterfpecimens lately brought from America, and which wewere favoured with. F. MOCKINCx Al Ot New Jerfey, Raccoon, g j and when I fmelled a little too long at it,my head ached. The Swedes call it Byorn-blad (bears-leaf) or Byom-retter (bears-root.) The Englifi call it Polecat-root, be-caufe its effluvia are as naufcous and foetid,as thofe of the polecat, which I have men-tioned before. The flowers are purple-co-loured ; when they are in full flower, theleaves begin to come out of the ground -, infummer the cattle do not touch it. told me, that he had employed theroot in all cafes where the root of the arumis made ufe of, efpecially againft the fcurvy,&c. The Swedijh name it got, becaufe thebears, when they leave their winter habita-tions, are fond of it in fpring :
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