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went again to fea February the 8th. 1748, 

 and arrived at London the 17th. of the fame 

 month. He ft aid in England till Auguf 15th. 

 in which interval of time he made excur- 

 lions to Woodford in EJJ'ex, to little Gaddefden 

 in Hertford/hire, where William Ellis, a man 

 celebrated for his publications in husbandry 

 lived, but whofe practical hufbandry Mr. 

 Kalm found not to be equal to the theory 

 laid down in his writings; he likewife faw 

 Ivinghoe in Buckingham/hire, Eaton and fe- 

 veral other places, and all the curiofities and 

 gardens in and about London : at laft he 

 went on board a fhip, and traverfed the 

 ocean to Philadelphia in Penfylvania, which 

 was formerly called New Sweden, where he 

 arrived September the 26th. The reft of 

 that year he employed in collecting feeds of 

 trees and plants, and fending them up to 

 Sweden-, and in feveral excurfions in the en- 

 virons of Philadelphia. The winter he 

 pafled among his countrymen at Raccoon in 

 New Jerfey. The next year 1749, Mr. 

 Kalm went through New Jerfey and New 

 York along the river Hudfon to Albany, and 

 from thence, after having crofted the lakes of 

 St. George and Champlain, to Montreal and 

 Quebec, he returned that very year againft 

 winter to Philadelphia, and fent a new cargo 

 of feeds, plants and curiofities to Sweden. In 



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