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for this reafon, the enclofures are made 

 very flender, and eafy to put up, and do 

 not require much wood. No other enclo- 

 fures are in ufe, but thofe which are fo like 

 fheep hurdles. A number of fquirrels were 

 in the oak woods, partly running on the 

 ground, and partly leaping from one branch 

 to another; and at this time they chiefly 

 fed upon acorns. 



I seldom faw beach trees; but I found 

 them quite the fame with the European ones. 

 Their wood is reckoned very good for 

 making joiner's planes of. 



I do not remember feeing any other than 

 the black Ants, or Formica nigra in Penfyl- 

 vania. They are as black as a coal, and of 

 two forts, fome very little, like the leaft of 

 our ants, and others of the fize of our com- 

 mon reddifh ants. I have not yet obferved 

 any hills of theirs, but only feen fome run- 

 ning about fingly. In. other parts of Ame- 

 rica, I have likewife found other fpecies of 

 ants, as 1 intend to remark in the fequel. 



The common Privet, or Ligujirum vul~ 



gare, is made ufe of in many places, as a 



hedge round corn-fields and gardens, and 



on my whole voyage, I did not fee that any 



other trees were made ufe of for this pur- 



pofe, though the Englifhmen here, well 



know that the hawthorn makes a much bet- 

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