[77] Tipula hortorum. Linn. [↑]
[78] See p. 92. of this volume. [↑]
[79] The famous moose-deer is accordingly nothing but an elk; for no one can deny the derivation of moose-deer from moosu. Considering especially, that before the Iroquese or Five Nations grew to that power, which they at present have all over North-America, the Algonkins were then the leading nation among the Indians, and their language was of course then a most universal language over the greater part of North-America; and though they have been very nearly destroyed by the Iroquese, their language is still more universal in Canada, than any of the rest. F. [↑]
[80] See his Histoire de la Nouvelle France, Tom. II. p. m. 125. [↑]
[81] Sterna hirundo, Linn. [↑]
[82] Arundo arenaria Linn. [↑]
[83] Elymus arenarius Linn. [↑]
[85] Vinland det goda, or the good wine-land, is the name which the old Scandinavian navigators gave to America, which they discovered long before Columbus. See Torsæi Historia Vinlandiæ antiquæ s. partis Americæ septentrionalis. Hasniæ 1715, 4to. and Mr. George Westmann’s, A. M. Dissertation on that Subject. Abo 1747. F. [↑]