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moifture which is always in cellars, pene- 

 trates the fand, and makes them putre- 

 fy. It would probably be very eafy to 

 keep them in Sweden in warm rooms, 

 during the cold feafon. Eut the difficulty 

 lies wholly in bringing them over to Swe- 

 den. I carried a confiderable number of 

 them with me on leaving America, and 

 took all poffible care in preferving them. 

 But we had a very violent ftorm 3t fea, by 

 which the (hip was fo greatly damaged, that 

 the water got in every where, and wetted 

 our cloaths, beds and other moveables fo 

 much, that we could wring the water out 

 of them. It is therefore no wonder that 

 my Bermuda potatoes were rotten ; but as 

 they are now cultivated in Portugal and 

 Spain, nay even in England, it will be eafy 

 to bring them into Sweden. The drink 

 which the Spaniards prepare from thefe po- 

 tatoes in their American poffeffions is not 

 ufual in Penjyhania.* 



Mr. Cock had a paper mill, on a little 

 brook, and all the coarfer forts of paper are 

 manufactured in it. It is now annually 

 rented for fifty pounds Penjyhania cur- 

 rency. 



M 4 October 



* Mr. Miller defcribes this liquor in his Gardener's Dicti- 

 onary under the article of ' Con-vohulus, fpecies the 17th. and 

 18th. 



