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lime near the fea-fhore, from oyfter fhells, 

 and bring it to town in winter, which is 

 faid to be worfe for mafonry, but better 

 for white-warning, than that which is got 

 from the limeftone. 



Coals have not yet been found in Pen- 

 fylvania ; but people pretend to have feen 

 them higher up in the country among the 

 natives. Many people however agree that 

 they are met with in great quantity more 

 to the north, near Cape Breton.* 



The ladies make wine from fome of the 

 fruits of the land. They principally take 

 white and red currants for that purpofe, 

 fince the fhrubs of this kind are very plen- 

 tiful in the gardens, and fucceed very well. 

 An old failor who had frequently been in 

 New-foundland, told me that red currants 

 grew wild in that country in great quanti- 

 ty. They likewife make a wine of ftraw- 

 berries, which grow in great plenty in the 

 woods, but are fourer than the Swedifo 

 ones. The American blackberries, or Rubus 

 occidentalis, are likewife made ufe of for 

 this purpofe, for they grow every where 

 about the fields, almoft as abundantly as 



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* This has been confirmed, fince Cape Breton is in the 

 hands of the Englijh, and it is reported that the ftrata of 

 coals run through the whole ifle, and fome baflet out to day- 

 near the fea-fhore, fo that this ifle will afford immenfe trea- 

 sures of coals, when the government will find it convenient, 

 to have them dug for the benefit of the Nation. F. 



