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peoples. As he travelled, his interest in
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explanatory framework to relate his accumulating observations about plants to the authority of religion-tinged ancient knowledge. Additionally, there does not appear to be any explicit criteria for the classification of the plants in the
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and so on, and document the varying lifestyle between the communities. One page details the different types of canoe dependent on community, and there is another page similarly devoted to different types of cabins. The inclusion of
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settlements was important due to the importance ships had in the transportation systems of the time, particularly in the New World. Furthermore, the mapping of settlements as can be seen in the
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and gardens in France have been established, as gardens were a choice place to observe plants at the time. Canadian plants ended up in these gardens in France, the
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toute sorte de bons poissons, qu'on ne voit pas dans nĂ´tre Europe, dont je vous donneray a la fin de mon
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