H2 September 1748. 



it not therefore be faid, that in ib many 

 centuries thefe plants had at laft contracted 

 a habit of coming up very late, and that it 

 would now require a great fpace of time to 

 make them lofe this habit, and ufe them to 

 quicken their growth ? 



September the 24th. We employed this 

 whole dTy in gathering the feeds of plants 

 of all kinds, and in putting icarce plants 

 into the herbal. 



September the 25th. Mr. HeJJelius made 

 me a prefent of a little piece of petrified 

 wood, which was found in the ground here. 

 It was four inches long, one inch broad, 

 and three lines thick. It might plainly be 

 fcen that it had formerly been wood. For 

 in the places where it had been polifhed, 

 all the longitudinal fibres were eafily diftin- 

 s;uifhable, fo that it mieht have been taken 

 for a piece of oak which was cat f.nooth. 

 My piece was part of a ftill greater piece. 

 It was here thought to be petrified hiccory. 

 I afterwards got more of it from other peo- 

 ple. Mr. Lewis Eva?ts told me that on the 

 boundaries of Virginia, a great petrified 

 block of hiccory had been found in the 

 ground, with the bark on it, which was 

 likewife petrified. 



Mr. John Bar tram is an Englijhman, 

 who lives in the country about four miles 



from 



