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common, and you frequently find trees, 

 whofe outfides are marbled, but their infide 

 not. The tree is therefore cut very deep 

 before it is felled, to fee whether it has 

 veins in every part. 



In the evening I reached Philadelphia. 



October the 7th. In the morning we 

 crofted the Delaware in a boat to the other 

 fide which belongs to New Jerfey, each per- 

 fon paying fourpence for his paflage. The 

 country here is very different from that in 

 Penfyhania ; for here the ground is almoft 

 mere fand, but in the other province it is 

 mixed with a good deal of clay, and this 

 makes the ground pretty rich. The dis- 

 coveries which I made to day of infects 

 and plants, I intend to mention in another 

 work. 



A soil like this in New ferfey, one 

 might be led to think, could produce no- 

 thing becaufe it is fo dry and poor. Yet 

 the maize which is planted on it grows 

 extremely well, and we faw many fields 

 filled with it. The earth is of that kind 

 in which tobacco commonly fucceeds, but 

 it is not near fo rich. The ftalks of maize 

 are commonly eight feet high, more or 

 lefs, and are full of leaves. The maize 

 is planted as ufual in rows, in little fquares, 

 fo that there is a fpace of five feet and fix 



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