no September 1 7 48. 



meter into any place where the fun could 

 mine upon it, or where he had before heat- 

 ed the wall by his beams; for in thofe cafes 

 my obfervations would certainly not have 

 been exact. The weather during our Sep- 

 tember and Qffiober is too well known to 

 want an explanation.* 



5. However there are fome fpontaneous 

 plants in Penjyhania, which do not every 

 year bring their feeds to maturity before the 

 cold begins. To thefe belong fome fpecies 

 of Gentiana, of Afters, and others. But in 

 thefe too the wifdom of the Creator has 

 wifely ordered every thing in its turn. For 

 almoft all the plants which have the quali- 

 ty of flowering fo late in autumn, are peren- 

 nial, or fuch as, though they have no feed to 

 propagate themfelves, can revive by moot- 

 ing new branches and {talks from the fime 

 root every year. But perhaps a natural 

 caufe may be given to account for the late 

 growth of thefe plants. Before the Euro- 

 peans came into this country, it was inhabit- 

 ed by favage nations, who practifed agri- 

 culture but little or not at all, and chiefly 



lived 



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* The EngUJh reader, who is perhaps notfo well acquaint- 

 ed with the weather of the Swedijh autumn, may form an' 

 idea of it, by having recourfe to the Calendarium Flora, or 

 the botanical and ceconomical almanack of Sweden, in Dr. 

 Linnaus's Amcen. Academ. and in Mr. Stilling fleet's, Snuedift 

 tratts, tranilated from the Amcen. Acad. zd. edition. F. 



