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and confume it. Wherever wc pafled by 

 we were always welcome to go into the 

 fine orchards, and gather our hats and pock- 

 ets full of the choiceft fruit, without the 

 poffeflbr's fo much as looking after it. 

 Cherry trees were planted near the farms, 

 on the roads, 6tc. 



The barns* had a peculiar kind of con 

 ftru&ion hereabouts, which I will give a 

 concife defcription of. The whole build- 

 ing was very great, fo as almoft to equal a 

 fmall church ; the roof was pretty high, 

 covered with wooden mingles, declining 

 on both fides, but not fteep : the walls 

 which fupport it, were not much higher 

 than a full grown man ; but on the other 

 hand the breadth of the building was the 

 more confiderable : in the middle was the 

 threfhing floor, and above it, or in the loft 

 or garret they put the corn which was not 

 yet threfhed, the ftraw, or any thing elfe, 

 according to the feafon : on one fide were 

 ftables for the horfes, and on the other for 

 the cows. And the fmall cattle had like- 

 wife their particular ftables or ftyes ; on 

 both ends of the buildings were great gates, 



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* The author feems to comprehend more by this word, 

 than what it commonly includes, for he defcribes it as a 

 building, which contains both a barn and ftables. F. 



