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the fea, and that by feveral accidents, fand, 

 earth, and other things were carried upon 

 it ? or, that the Delaware formerly was 

 broader than it is at prefent ? or, that it 

 has changed its courfe ? This laft flill of- 

 ten happens at prefent ; the river breaking 

 off the bank on one fide, and forming one 

 on the other. Both the Swedes and Englijh 

 often mewed me fuch places. 



October the 18th. At prefent I did not 

 find above ten different kinds of plants in 

 bloflbm : they were, a Gentiana, two fpe- 

 cies of After, the common Golden Rod, or 

 Solidago Virga aurea, a fpecies of Hieracium, 

 the yellow wood Sorrel, or Oxalis corniculata, 

 the Fox Gloves, or Digitalis purpurea, the 

 Hamamelis Virginiana, or Witch Hazel, our 

 common Millefoil, or Achillcea Millefolium, 

 and our Dandelion, or Leontodon Taraxacum- 

 All other plants had for this year laid afide 

 their gay colours. Several trees, efpecially 

 thofe which were to flower early in fpring, 

 had already formed fuch large buds, that on 

 opening them all the parts of fructification, 

 fuch as Calyx, Corolla, Stamina and Pijiillum 

 were plainly diftinguifhable. It was therefore 

 eafy to determine the genus to which fuch 

 trees belonged. Such were the red maple, 

 or Acer rubrum, and the Laurus (Zjlivalis, 

 a fpecies of bay. Thus nature prepared to 



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