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England and its curiofities and hulbandry we 

 omitted. The particulars of the parTage 

 from England to Penfylvania we abridged ; 

 no circumftance interefting to natural hifto- 

 ry or to any other part of literature has 

 been omitted. And from his arrival at 

 Philadelphia, we give the original at large, 

 except where we omitted fome trifling cir- 

 cumftances, viz. the way of eating oyfters, 

 the art of making apple dumplings, and 

 fome more of the fame nature, which ftruek 

 that Sivedijh gentleman with their novelty. 

 Mr. Kalm makes ufe of the SwediJJj mea- 

 fure ; its foot is to the Englijh foot, as 1 134 

 to 1350. For his meteorological obferva- 

 tions, he employed the thermometer of 

 Prof. Celjlus generally made ufe of in Swe- 

 den, and his was of Celfius's own making ; 

 the interval from the point of freezing to 

 the point of boiling water, is equally divi- 

 ded in this thermometer into 100 parts. In 

 the names of plants, we have chiefly em- 

 ployed after his directions the Linncean 

 names in the laft edition of his Spec. Plan- 

 tarum, and Syfiema Natures, Vol. 2. But 

 as his defcriptions of animals, plants, and 

 minerals are very fhort, he promifes to give 

 them at large fome time hence in a Latin 

 work. He excufes the negligence of his 

 ftile, from the time in which he methodi- 



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