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materials ; they are faid to lay two eggs, 

 each of the fize of a pea. 



October the 25th. I employed this day 

 and the next in packing up all the feeds 

 gathered this autumn, for I had an oppor- 

 tunity of fending them to England by the 

 .{hips which failed about this time. From 

 England they were forwarded to Sweden. 



October the 27th. In the morning I fet 

 out on a little journey to New York, in com- 

 pany with Mr. Peter Cocky with a view 

 to fee the country, and to enquire into 

 the fafeft road, which I could take in 

 going to Canada, through the defart or un- 

 inhabited country between it and the Englijh 

 provinces. 



That part where we travelled at prefent 

 was pretty well inhabited on both fides of 

 the road, by Englijhmen, Germans and other 

 Europeans. Plains and hills of different di- 

 mensions were feen alternately, mountains 

 and ftones, I never faw, excepting a few 

 pebbles. Near almoft every farm was a 

 great orchard with peach and apple trees, 

 fome of which were yet loaded with fruit. 



The enclofures were in fome parts low 

 enough, for the cattle to leap over them 

 with eafe ; to prevent this the hogs had a 

 triangular wooden yoke : this cuftom was 

 as I have already obferved, common over 



all 



