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all have a triangular yoke about their 

 necks, and the other cattle are not very 

 unruly. But in fuch places where the cat- 

 tle break through the enclofures, hedges of 

 this kind would make but a poor defence. 

 The people who live in the neighbourhood 

 of Philadelphia, are obliged to keep their 

 hogs enclofed. 



In the afternoon I rode with Mr. Peter 



Cock, who was a merchant, born at Karl- 



fcron in Sweden, to his country feat, about 



nine miles from the town, to the north- 



weft. 



The country on both fides of the road 

 was covered with a great foreft. The trees 

 were all with annual leaves, and I did not 

 fee a fingle fir or pine. Moft of the trees 

 were different forts of oak. But we like- 

 wife faw chefnut trees, walnut trees, locuft 

 trees, apple trees, hiccory, blackberry bufh- 

 es, and the like. The ground ceafed to 

 be fo even as it was before, and began to 

 look more like the Englijh ground, diverfi- 

 fied with hills and vallies. We found nei- 

 ther mountains nor great ftones, and the 

 wood was fo much thinned, and the ground 

 fo uniformly even, that we could fee a great 

 way between the trees, under which we 

 rode without any inconvenience ; for there 

 were no bufhes to flop us. In fome places 



F 4 where 



