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which have been burned by the natives to save the trouble of felling them or of collecting other fuel, a practice to which they are greatly addicted, produce a quantity of a saccharine substance, used for seasoning in the same way as sugar is by civilized milieus. The cone measured sixteen inches and a half in length, and was ten inches round at the thickest part. Tin- country of the Trnptqua Indians, two degrees south of the Columbia, produces this tree in the greatest abundance. Th< seeds are collected in the end of summer, dried, pounded. and made into a sort of cake which is considered a great dainty. To my inquiries respecting it, the poor Indian an- swered ly repeated assurances that he would give me plenty of this cake when I visited his country, which is the surest proof of its being much prized, as these people will, on every occasion, offer the greatest rarity or delicacy to a stranger. The same person brought me also an Klk's snare and a netted purse of ingenious workmanship, made of a most durable grass, which, from what T have seen, will probably prove a new species of Hel&nias. Of this plant he has also promised to procure me roots and seeds. (To be continued.)