Penfyhanid, Return from Wilmington. \6j 



into the ground, but fpread horizontally. 

 I had opportunities of obferving this in fe- 

 veral places where the trees were dug up; 

 for I feldom faw one, whofe roots went 

 above a foot deep into the ground, though 

 it was a loofe foil. 



About two Englijh miles behind Chefter, 

 I panned by an iron forge, which was to the 

 right hand by the road fide. It belonged 

 to two brothers, as I was told. The ore 

 however is not dug here, but thirty or for- 

 ty miles from hence, where it is firfl 

 melted in the oven, and then carried to 

 this place. The bellows were made of 

 leather, and both they and the hammers, 

 and even the hearth, but fmall in proporti- 

 on to ours. All the machines were work- 

 ed by water. The iron was wrought into 

 bars. 



To day I remarked, as 1 have fince fre- 

 quently feen on my travels in this country, 

 that horfes are very greedy of apples. When 

 they are let into an orchard to feed upon 

 the grafs, if there are any apples on the 

 ground, they frequently leave the frefh 

 green grafs, and eat the apples, which, 

 however, are not reckoned a good food for 

 them ; and befides that, it is too expenfive. 



The red Maple, or Acer rubrum, is plen- 

 liful in thefe places. Its proper fituations 



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