THE   PACIFIC   OCEAN.          .              i49
vanelloe, French willow, euphorbia, and crane's-bill: alfo
cudweed, ruflies, bull-rufhes, flax, all-heal, American
nightlhade, knot-grafs, brambles, eye-bright, and ground-
fel; but the/pecks of each are different from any we have
in Europe. There is alfo polypody, fpleenwort, and about
twenty other different jfort of ferns, entirely peculiar to the
place; with feveral forts of moffes, either rare, or produced
only here; befides a great number of other plants, whofe
ufes are not yet known, and fubje&s fit only for botanical
books.
Of thefe, however, there is one which deferves particu-
lar notice here, as the natives make their garments of it,
and it produces a fine filky flax, fuperior in appearance to
any thing we have; and probably, at leaft, as ftrong.    It
grows every where near the fea, and in fome places a
confiderable way up the hills, in bunches or tufts, with
fedge-like  leaves,   bearing, on  a  long  ftalk,   yellowifh
flowers, which are fucceeded by a long roundifh pod, fill-
ed with very thin mining black feeds.   A fpecies of long
pepper is found in great plenty; but it has little of the
aromatic flavour that makes fpices valuable; and a tree
much like a palm at a diftance, is pretty frequent in the
woods, though the deceit appears as you come near it.   It
is remarkable that, as the greateft part of the trees and
plants had, at this time, loft their flowers, we perceived
they were generally of the berry-bearing kind ; of which,
and other feeds, I brought away about thirty different forts.
Of thefe, one in particular, which bears a red berry, is
much like the fupple-jack, and grows about the trees,
ftretching from one to another, in fuch a manner as to ren-
der the woods almoft wholly impaflable.
The birds, of which there is a tolerable ftock, as well as
the