a candle out, it yields a pleasant fragrancy to all that are in the
room; insomuch, that nice people often put them out, on purpose to have
the incense of the expiring snuff.

The melting of these berries is said to have been first found out by a
surgeon in New England, who performed wonderful things, with a salve
made of them. This discovery is very modern, notwithstanding these
countries have been so long settled.

The method of managing these berries is by boiling them in water, till
they come to be entirely dissolved, except the stone or seed in the
middle, which amounts in quantity to about half the bulk of the berry;
the biggest of which is something less than a corn of pepper.

There are also in the plains, and rich low grounds of the freshes,
abundance of hops, which yield their product without any labor of the
husbandman, in weeding, hilling or poling.

Sec. 18. All over the country is interspersed here and there a surprising
variety of curious plants and flowers. They have a sort of briar,
growing something like the sarsaparilla. The berry of this is as big as
a pea, and as round, the seed being of a bright crimson color. It is
very hard, and finely polished by nature, so that it might be put to
diverse ornamental uses, as necklaces are, &c.

There are several woods, plants and earths, which have been fit for the
dying of curious colors. They have the puccoon and musquaspen, two
roots, with which the Indians use to paint themselves red. And a berry,
which grows upon a wild briar, dyes a handsome blue. There is the sumac
and the sassafras, which make a deep yellow. Mr. Heriot tells us of
several others which he found at Pamtego, and gives the Indian names of
them; but that language being not understood by the Virginians, I am not
able to distinguish which he means. Particularly he takes notice of
wasebur, an herb; chapacour, a root; and tangomockonominge, a bark.

There's the snake root, so much admired in England for a cordial, and
for being a great antidote in all pestilential distempers.

There's the rattlesnake root, to which no remedy was ever yet found
comparable; for it effectually cures the bite of a rattlesnake, which
sometimes has been mortal in two minutes. If this medicine be early
applied, it presently removes the infection, and in two or three hours
restores the patient to as perfect health as if he had never been hurt.

The Jamestown weed (which resembles the thorny apple of Peru, and I t