i6z October 1748. 



poffible, left the boat overfet. The Swedes 

 in Penfylvania and New yerfey near the 

 rivers, have no other boats to go to Phila- 

 delphia in, which they commonly do twice 

 a week on the market days, though they 

 be feveral miles diftant from the town, 

 and meet fometimes with fevere ftorms 5 

 yet misfortunes from the overfetting, &c. 

 of thefe canoes are feldom heard of, though 

 they might well be expected on account of 

 the fmall fize of this kind of boats. How- 

 ever a great deal of attention and care is 

 neceffary in managing the canoes, when 

 the wind is fomewhat violent ; for they are 

 narrow, round below, have no keel, and 

 therefore may eafily be overfet. Accord- 

 ingly when the wind is more brifk than 

 ordinary, the people make for the land. 



The common garden creffes grow in fe- 

 veral places on the roads about Chichejier 9 

 and undoubtedly come from the feeds, 

 which were by chance carried out of the 

 many gardens about that town. 



The American brambles are here in great 

 plenty. When a field is left uncultivated, 

 they are the firft plants that appear on it ; 

 and I frequently obferved them in fuch 

 fields as are annually ploughed, and have 

 corn fown on them. For when thefe bulli- 

 es are once rooted, they are not eafily ex- 

 tirpated. 



