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all the EngHJh plantations. To the horfes 

 neck was fattened a piece of wood, which 

 at the lower end had a tooth or hook, fatt- 

 ening in the enclofure, and flopping the 

 horfe, juft when it lifted its fore feet to leap 

 over ; but I know not whether this be a 

 good invention with regard to horfes. They 

 were likewife kept in bounds by a piece of 

 wood, one end of which was fattened to 

 one of the fore feet, and the other to one 

 of the hind feet, and it forced them to walk 

 pretty flowly, as at the fame time it made 

 it imporlible for them to leap over the en- 

 clofures. To me it appeared that the horfes 

 were fubject to all forts of dangerous acci- 

 dents from this piece of wood. 



Near New Frankfurt we rode over a 

 little ftone bridge, and fomewhat further, 

 eight or nine Englifi miles from Philadel- 

 phia we patted over another, which was 

 likewife of ftone. There are not yet any 

 mileftones put up in the country, and the 

 inhabitants only compute the diftances by 

 guefs. We were afterwards brought over 

 a river in a ferry, where we paid three- 

 pence a perfon, for ourfelves and our horfes. 



At one of the places where we ttopt to 

 have our horfes fed, the people had a 

 Mocking-bird in a cage -, and it is here 

 reckoned the beft finging bird, though its 



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